The Filson Historical Society Digital Projects

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  • No 1 - 734 Dixie Hwy View out front window 1951_web.jpg

    View from the front window of 734 Dixie Highway (formerly South 18th Street) south of Broadway looking east, 1951. As late as the early 1950s the area was a viable neighborhood of residences, businesses, and organizations. Within a few years the entire area was razed to make way for the Philip Morris industrial complex. Since closed and itself razed, the area today is a vacant lot awaiting new development.
  • No 2 - 734 Dixie - rear window view 1951_web.jpg

    View from the rear window of 734 Dixie Highway, site of former LFC.
  • No 3 - 13th and Madison 1946_web.jpg

    13th and Madison Streets, 1946. Light industry, apartments, and a small city park now occupy that intersection.
  • No 4 - 106-108 W Walnut 1951_web.jpg

    106-108 W. Walnut Street (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.), 1951. The J. Graham Brown School now occupies those lots.
  • No 5 - 8th and liberty looking southeast, 1946_web.jpg

    8th and Liberty Streets looking southeast, 1946. The Metropolitan Sewer District building is there today.
  • No 6 - alley running north bet 6th & 7th walnut & chesnut, 1951_web.jpg

    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.
  • No 7 - Old mansion at 7th and Chestnut, 1951_web.jpg

    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.
  • No 8 - east side of 7th betw broadway & magazine, 1950_web.jpg

    Building once home to the pre-Civil War Louisville Female College, east side of 7th Street between Broadway and Magazine, 1950.
  • No 9 - East side of 7th betw Broadway and Magazine, 1950 [1951] - Girls Finishing School before Civil War_web.jpg

    Photograph taken at 7th Street and Magazine Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1951, with demoltion underway and sign for M & R Wrecking & Lumber Company.
  • No 10 - 7th St betw Broadway and Magazine 1951 - site of former LFC_web.jpg

    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.
  • No 11 - East side of 7th St betw Broadway and Magazine 1950_web.jpg

    Photograph taken at 7th Street between Broadway and Magazine Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1950.
  • No 11a - east side of 7th betw Magazine and Broadway 1951_web.jpg

    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.
  • No 12 - rear of 7th St betw Bway and Magazine 1951_web.jpg

    Rear view of row houses on the east side of 7th Street north of Broadway, 1951.
  • No 13 - rear of east side 7th between Magazine and Broadway of bldgs 1951_web.jpg

    Another view of the rear of row houses on the east side of 7th north of Broadway, 1951.
  • No 14 -  rear view mansion on gray st being demoloished, 1959_web.jpg

    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.
  • No 15 - rear view of bldgs on south side of Walnut St betw 6th and 7th ca 1950_web.jpg

    Rear view of buildings on the south side of Walnut Street between 6th and 7th Streets, ca. 1950.
  • No 16 - 1957 mansion demolished chestnut bet 7th & 8th_web.jpg

    Chestnut Street mansion between 7th and 8th Streets shortly before being demolished, 1957.
  • No 17 - mansion rear yard from alley chestnut - magazine bet 6th & 7th_web.jpg

    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.
  • No 18 - Old bldg being demolished 6th and Grayson 1959_web.jpg

    Building at 6th and Grayson Streets shortly before demolition, 1959.
  • No 19 - 1948 view looking east from 9th & madison_web.jpg

    Looking east from 9th and Madison Streets, 1948. Madison Street no longer exists is this area.
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