William Hession Photograph Collection, 1946-1959

Collection Items

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  Wrecking Ball, Louisville, n.d.

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  View Looking East from 9th & Madison, 1948

  Looking east from 9th and Madison Streets, 1948. Madison Street no longer exists is this area.
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  Building Being Demolished on 6th and Grayson, 1959

  Building at 6th and Grayson Streets shortly before demolition, 1959.
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  Mansion from Alley on Chestnut Between 6th & 7th, n.d.

  Rear view of a mansion on Chestnut Street between 6th and 7th Streets, undated. This might be a rear view of the Huston Apartments at 620 W. Chestnut.
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  Mansion Demolished on Chestnut Between 7th & 8th, 1957

  Chestnut Street mansion between 7th and 8th Streets shortly before being demolished, 1957.
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  Rear View of South Side of Walnut St Between 6th and 7th, ca. 1950

  Rear view of buildings on the south side of Walnut Street between 6th and 7th Streets, ca. 1950.
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  Rear View Mansion on Gray St being Demolished, 1959

  Old mansion on Gray Street being demolished, 1959. Once lined by fine mansions, medical facilities, light industry, and surface parking now dominate the area. Only a few houses remain today.
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  Rear of East Side 7th between Magazine and Broadway, 1951

  Another view of the rear of row houses on the east side of 7th north of Broadway, 1951.
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  Rear of 7th St between Broadway and Magazine, 1951

  Rear view of row houses on the east side of 7th Street north of Broadway, 1951.
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  East Side of 7th Between Magazine and Broadway, 1951

  Closer view of the antebellum date row houses on the east side of 7th Street north of Broadway, 1951. They were razed by the late 1950s.
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  East side of 7th St Between Broadway and Magazine, 1950

  Photograph taken at 7th Street between Broadway and Magazine Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1950.
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  7th St between Broadway and Magazine, 1951

  The site of the former Louisville Female College, 1951. This view looking south provides a good view of the antebellum date row houses that would also soon be demolished. The Gene Snyder U. S. Courthouse and Custom House (the U. S. Post Office, Court House, and Custom House in the 1950s) can be glimpsed in the distance. This property is now surface parking for the federal courthouse and Romano Mazzoli Federal Building.
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  East Side of 7th Between Broadway and Magazine, 1951

  Photograph taken at 7th Street and Magazine Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1951, with demoltion underway and sign for M & R Wrecking & Lumber Company.
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  East Side of 7th between Broadway & Magazine, 1950

  Building once home to the pre-Civil War Louisville Female College, east side of 7th Street between Broadway and Magazine, 1950.
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  Mansion at 7th and Chestnut, 1951

  Old mansion at 7th and Chestnut Streets, 1951. The sign over the door reads Huston and a smaller sign to the right of the door reads “COL HOTEL” which by that time, the area being in the African American business district, likely indicates it was a hotel for African Americans. Research identified the mansion as The Huston apartments, at 620 W. Chestnut (the southeast corner of 7th and Chestnut) only listed in the mid-1950s, so the 1951 date is in error. No listing of a hotel by that name appears in the 1950 through 1953 directories. Like so many of these fine old houses, it originally was a single family dwelling. By 1898 it had been converted to a boarding house.
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  Alley Between 6th & 7th, 1951

  View from the alley running north between 6th and 7th Streets between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, 1951. The church steeple in the distance is the Cathedral of the Assumption on 5th north of Muhammad Ali (previously Walnut). The Republic Building and Kentucky Towers can also be seen to its right. Everything in the foreground is now occupied by the AT&T building, a River City Bank building, and surface parking.
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  8th and liberty looking southeast, 1946

  8th and Liberty Streets looking southeast, 1946. The Metropolitan Sewer District building is there today.
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  106-108 W Walnut, 1951

  106-108 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.), 1951. The J. Graham Brown School now occupies those lots.
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  13th and Madison, 1946

  13th and Madison Streets, 1946. Light industry, apartments, and a small city park now occupy that intersection.
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  734 Dixie Highway, 1951

  View from the rear window of 734 Dixie Highway, site of former LFC.