Churches

Church in Shelby Park sees new life as The St. Catherine...

There's been a lot of news about churches in Louisville, recently. Whether they're getting fixed up, figuring out new ways to deal with old...

One Step at a Time: After 140 years, SoBro’s Calvary Episcopal...

Located just around the corner of the 800 Tower City Apartments in SoBro, Calvary Episcopal Church, 821 South Fourth Street, is busy restoring the limestone...

Time capsule found in cornerstone of demolished Holy Family convent

In January, we reported on the demolition of the Holy Family convent on Poplar Level Road to make way for the new headquarters of...

#HolyApartmentWatch: Bardstown Road’s Calvary Lutheran Church to be converted into apartments

It looks like we're going to have to dust off our old tag, #HolyCondoWatch, eh Pip? Let's call it #HolyApartmentWatch. That's because a developer plans...

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

Clarke & Loomis's exuberant Gothic-Revival St. Peter’s United Church of Christ still stands tall over West Jefferson Street after 121 years in the Russell neighborhood. It's...

Church dating to 1842 to see new life with mixed-use conversion...

When I first wrote about this church in October 2008, its fortunes didn't look all that good. Its buttresses had been hit repeatedly by...

Holy Family’s old convent to be demolished for Archdiocese headquarters on...

I’m rarely on Poplar Level Road, and must admit I’d not really noticed this building before. It’s part of the Holy Family campus in Louisville’s...

Now & Then: Today, this corner of Barret and Broadway is...

Go stand on the corner of East Broadway and Barret Avenue and you'll find yourself nowhere in particular. The two north corners are surface-level...

Will the future of Clifton’s James Lees Memorial Presbyterian Church be...

The James Lees Memorial Presbyterian Church at 1741 Frankfort Avenue was built in 1915 on a prominent corner parcel on the corner of Frankfort...