Vernacular Architecture
Demo Watch: Warehouse On First Street Shorter
An historic three-story whisky warehouse dating to the 1860s has been reduced to just one story. We knew in May that the building's future...
Hurricane Damaged Building Back Better Than Ever
A building damaged in Wind Storm 2008 on Liberty Street in Phoenix Hill has now been fully rebuilt. The 1880's era commercial vernacular building...
Louisville Chemical Building Speaks, Cries Answered
Friday, we told you about the thought bubbles spray-painted on the Louisville Chemical Building on the corner of Jefferson and Hancock streets. It seems...
What’s The Louisville Chemical Building Trying To Say?
The Louisville Chemical Building on the corner of Jefferson and Hancock Streets has been for sale seemingly forever. At least before we first wrote...
Scaffold Watch: Facelift On East Market Street
Two East Market Street buildings once part of the Wayside Christian Mission campus are being restored back to their original appearance with help from...
Demo Watch: East Jefferson Street Building Reduced To Rubble
The three-story red brick vernacular building that lost its roof in Windstorm 2008 has now been reduced to a pile of rubble. We told...
Snapshot: Phoenix Hill Rebuild Getting Rebuilt
We stopped by the site of that imminently "dangerous" building on Liberty Street in Phoenix Hill that was damaged in the windstorm. Scaffolding went...
Snapshot: Shelby Street Apartments Shows Brick
When we checked in last with the mixed-use, mixed-income apartment building on the corner of Shelby Street and Broadway, the scaffolding was up and...
Scaffolding Watch: Dangerous PH Building Being Tamed
There's something we love about scaffolding. It holds that promise that something might be happening. It can also hold the insult of inaction. Today...