Cherokee Park

Tuesday: Join Louisville landscape architects to learn about the significance of...

It's easy to see how parks have shaped the built environment and growth of Louisville. Our cherished Olmsted Parks system created a green armature for...

Best: Louisville’s Olmsted parks are the gift that’s been giving back...

  May 20, 1891, is a landmark date in Louisville planning history. That was the day when Frederick Law Olmsted—the Father of Landscape Architecture himself—arrived...

Passing Through History: Tracing the 150-year journey of Henry Whitestone’s Newcomb...

  In two Louisville-area parks sit small remnants of our community’s past that most thought had been lost forever. Nestled among the trees at a side entrance...

Missing Architecture: The case of the missing Galt House portico and...

Last week we revealed a fright of building ghosts distributed throughout the city, their disembodied pieces piled among weeds atop landfills or stacked behind...

Funds needed to help build this missing link along the Beargrass...

The Beargrass Creek Greenway winds its way from Cherokee Park through Irish Hill toward the Ohio River—but taking the trail today, you'd never make it...

Major mixed-use development alongside Cherokee Park could bring density, walkability

There's a small triangular block right at the halfway point between Frankfort Avenue and Bardstown Road that we're all familiar with, but likely haven't thought...

Happy Holidays from Broken Sidewalk

Thanks to all you readers for sticking with us in 2011 and for everyone who wrote in with questions and tips and to those...

Studying Hogan Fountain & Tyler Park

Metro Parks and the Olmsted Conservancy held an information gathering session last night seeking input on Tyler Park and the Hogan Fountain area of...