Steve Wiser

Steve Wiser

Smoketown lands a Family Wellness Center in the beautifully restored former...

Smoketown has undergone a major transformation, thanks in large part to a HOPE VI development that remade the barracks-style Sheppard Square Homes into a...

Louisville Historical League presents annual Heritage Awards

Over last weekend, members and supporters of the Louisville Historical League gathered at Locust Grove for their annual meeting. At the event, League leaders...

Architect Steve Wiser honored as AIA Fellow for activism, community engagement

Louisville has its second inductee in two years into the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows. Broken Sidewalk contributor and local architect Steve...

What to do with the Board of Trade? Takeaways from Metro...

Metro Louisville has initiated a process to determine how best to reuse building fragments that have been salvaged from the demolition of historic structures....

Louisville Forum panel to explore intersection of preservation and development

Each month, the nonprofit Louisville Forum convenes for a lunchtime discussion of a topic important to the Louisville community. Meetings involve a panel of...

Vacant nearly a decade, former Mercy Academy property in the Original...

A stately stone-and-brick classroom building has stood watch over East Broadway for 114 years, but when it was built for the Sisters of Mercy in 1901,...

Barney Bright’s Louisville Clock in storage once again as Theater Square...

Theater Square, a grouping of three buildings around a courtyard on Fourth Street, is beginning its disappearing act with the dismantling of Barney Bright's whimsical, 40-foot-tall Louisville Clock at...

How an elevated rail line along the Ohio River could help...

Stimulating economic vitality and advancing the Louisville region’s quality of life must be the ultimate goal of the transportation strategy behind Move Louisville, Mayor Greg Fischer's...

Fountain Court Design Competition Inspired by Southern Exposition

Has it really been nearly three years since we've had a design competition in Louisville? While it's smaller in scale than the Irish Hill...