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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

Louisville armory circa 1917 showing long-lost stone eagles keeping watch from its parapet.

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

Dec 12, 2014
Mason Maury's rendering of the Louisville Woman's Club.

Louisville once had a carbon copy of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Winslow...

Dec 15, 2014
Fourth Street route circa 1968. (Courtesy TARC)

Vintage Buses of Louisville’s Transit Past

Dec 29, 2011
Everything in this photo has been demolished (1946) (U of L Photographic Archives)

They Tore The Whole Thing Down: Fourth Street

May 10, 2010

Worst: Louisville loses when headquarters choose the suburbs over Downtown

Feb 1, 2016

What’s that building doing in the middle of Frankfort Avenue? The...

Dec 10, 2015

These six historic sites help explain the architectural legacy of Shelby...

Feb 24, 2015

There used to be a fort at Fort Nelson Park: The...

Feb 23, 2015

This crumbling 150-year-old church in Phoenix Hill is about to see...

Aug 28, 2015
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