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Main Street

West Main Street offers a walking tour opportunity featuring some of the best of Louisville’s architectural heritage. Starting at 1st and...
Downtown

Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th-most-populous city in the U.S. It is the regional economic hub a...
Union Station

A railroad station that opened in 1891 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, has served as offices for the Transit Authority of River Ci...
The Point - Heigold / Paget Houses

From Louisville's founding, this area was known as The Point for its position on the point bar of Beargrass Creek's juncture with the Ohio R...
Conrad-Caldwell House Museum

Finest example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Louisville, built in 1893 on St. James Court in the in Old Louisville neighborho...
Filson Historical Society

The finest example of Parisian Beaux Arts architecture in Louisville, now the home of Kentucky’s oldest privately supported historical socie...
Culbertson Mansion

One of Indiana's leading citizens & philanthropists built this Second Empire mansion at 916 E. Main St. in New Albany, Indiana in 1869. The ...
Thomas Edison House

Just after the Civil War, a 19-year old Thomas Edison is thought to have rented a room in this building during part of the 1 1/2 years he wo...
Portland Museum

The on-going restoration of Beech Grove, an 1852 Italianate antebellum residence and gardens, once a 'country seat' on the old road between ...
Brennan House

The last remaining Victorian mansion along what was once a residential street downtown dates to 1868, and features original interior finishe...
Coalhole Covers

Louisville was a major 19th century iron manufacturing center, with over 12 foundries operating by 1880. Cast iron from Louisville's foundri...

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