History

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

Branden Klayko - Sep 22, 2014

How the single-family house evolved over the past 400 years, all in one handy chart

Branden Klayko - Aug 12, 2015

What’s that building doing in the middle of Frankfort Avenue? The story of the Heigold House

Branden Klayko - Dec 10, 2015

Stoneware owner Steve Smith on the company’s 200-year heritage, transformation of Paristown Pointe

Remembering Lakeland Asylum’s looming presence over Anchorage

Passenger Rail The Way It Used To Be

Digging into the legendary origins of Hillerich & Bradsby’s Louisville Slugger baseball bat

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

Nov 17, 2015

Worst: Louisville went crazy with the wrecking ball in the name...

Feb 8, 2016

Remember these six long-gone racetracks while watching the Kentucky Derby

May 5, 2017

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

Feb 2, 2016

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

Mar 25, 2015

On the River City Mall

Blast From The Past: River City Mall

May 7, 2010

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

What Might Have Been: Unbuilt Louisville

Aug 9, 2011

More history has happened at the Armory than in most places...

Dec 12, 2014

St. Peter’s Church has found a way to save its historic...

Feb 22, 2016

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