Every historic building has a story to tell
There’s a hill in the Clifton neighborhood in Louisville, a long slow climb up from Beargrass Creek in Butchertown – a fitting site for a splendid movie theater at the dawn of a new century. The Hilltop Theater, a two-story edifice clad in glazed white brick, with a dramatic recessed entrance, has delighted those (read more)
Category: Jefferson County
Tags: #historicmovietheater, #kentuckyarchitecture, #louisvilleky, #moviemagic
In the spring of 2018, I shared a photo from the Lafayette Studios Collection on the Gardens to Gables Facebook page. The black and white image shows a two-story, brick, Italianate style house from the late 19th century. The photo was captioned “Alf Ruh Estate; exterior front of house with tall trees in the (read more)
Category: Fayette County
Tags: #kentuckyarchitecture, #lexingtonky, #oldhouselove, #parkersmillroad
One of the most common questions I field from readers is “How do you decide what buildings to photograph?” It’s probably easier to answer that question by flipping it around, so that I can contemplate what I don’t stop to capture with my camera. That list is pretty short: new buildings, uninspired cookie-cutter houses from (read more)
Category: Nicholas County
Tags: #carlisleKY, #kentuckyarchitecture, #vernaculararchitecure
A stroll down the 500 block of Chestnut Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky quickly brings to mind the Sesame Street song: “One of these things is not like the other; One of these things doesn’t belong.” Situated in a block occupied by remnant mid-nineteenth century, side and central passage homes surrounded by mostly modern (read more)
Category: Warren County
Tags: #bowlinggreenky, #kentuckyarchitecture, #missionstylearchitecture
The season of tulips, jonquils, and other spring blooming bulbs seems very far away right now, as Kentucky is held captive by a polar vortex of bitterly cold temperatures and the ground lies inert under several inches of snow and ice. Traveling out and away from the agony of winter sounds delightful, but alas (read more)
Category: Allen County
Last night, a massive, five-alarm fire consumed a distinctive three-story brick building on Cumberland Avenue, most recently used as a storage warehouse for Cardwell Furniture. Built in 1906 by Sam and Herman Weinstein, the building formed part of the distinctive town square/center of downtown Middlesboro, with L-shaped buildings on each side of the intersection of (read more)
Category: Bell County
Tags: #kentuckyarchitecture, #middlesboroky, #weinsteinbuilding
At the intersection of US 60/13th Street, Algonquin Avenue, and Blackburn Avenue in Ashland, stands a wonderful early 20th century Tudor Revival style building, constructed as a commercial/residential building to serve newly developing suburbs south of downtown. The triangular shaped parcel on which the building rests allowed it address the confluence of streets around (read more)
Category: Boyd County
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