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Bacon & Sons Dry Goods and Museum Plaza towers. (Courtesy UL Archives and REX)

What Might Have Been: Unbuilt Louisville

Branden Klayko - Aug 9, 2011
A stack of trolleys from Los Angeles at the scrapyard. (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

Worst: Louisville made a huge mistake trashing its once-robust trolley system

Broken Sidewalk - Feb 2, 2016
Iron Quarter site (BS File Photo)

Report Says Iron Quarter Buildings Still Salvageable

Branden Klayko - Mar 3, 2010

The Douglass Loop was once a treasure trove of Art Deco architecture

Worst: Louisville went crazy with the wrecking ball in the name of “Urban Renewal”

LG&E photo–ca. 1922, Power Station, Riverfront and Elevated Line

Louisville’s Incredible Elevated Rapid Transit Trains

(Courtesy Google)

How this corner at Broadway and Baxter is redeveloped will shape the future of the Highlands

Best: Built in the ’60s, the Leight House stands among Louisville’s...

Feb 5, 2016

MSD plans to tear down this historic Germantown commercial building on...

Feb 27, 2015
Belknap Hardware buildings before implosion (Courtesy SteveBillieJene / flickr)

Lost Louisville: Belknap Warehouses

Oct 4, 2010

The story of Mellwood Bourbon and the early fight against phantom...

Sep 22, 2014

An inside tour of Smoketown’s haunting Merchants’ Ice Tower

Nov 17, 2015

Remembering Lakeland Asylum’s looming presence over Anchorage

May 18, 2016

Louisville’s Forgotten Freight Subways

Jul 28, 2008
(Courtesy Botanica)

Louisville’s planned Waterfront Botanical Gardens takes a step forward with land...

Jun 1, 2015

How the single-family house evolved over the past 400 years, all...

Aug 12, 2015
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