#1 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Actors Theatre
316 W Main St Louisville KY
~0.20 miles from Louisville city center
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State Theatre of Kentucky, home of the internationally acclaimed Humana Festival of New American Plays.
http://www.actorstheatre.org
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Belle of Louisville
Louisville KY
~0.28 miles from Louisville city center
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The Belle of Louisville is a steamboat owned and operated by the city of Louisville, Kentucky and moored at its downtown wharf next to the Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere during its annual operational period. Originally named the Idlewild, she was built by James Rees & Sons Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the West Memphis Packet Company in 1914 and was first put into service on the Allegheny River. Constructed with an all-steel superstructure and asphalt main deck, the steamboat is said to hold the all-time record in her class for miles traveled, years in operation, and number of places visited. The Belle's offices are located within the Mayor Andrew Broaddus, also a National Historic Landmark.
The Idlewild operated as a passenger ferry between Memphis, Tennessee and West Memphis, Arkansas. She also hauled cargo such as cotton, lumber and grain. She then came to Louisville in 1931 and ran trips between the Fontaine Ferry amusement park near downtown Louisville and Rose Island, a resort about 14 miles upriver from Louisville. In 1934, she operated a regular excursion schedule through World War II. During the war, she was outfitted with special equipment to push oil barges along the river. She also served as a floating USO nightclub for troops stationed at military bases along the Mississippi River.
After the war, in 1947, she was sold to J. Herod Gorsage, and the name was changed to Avalon. Over the next few years, the Avalon visited ports all along the Mississippi, Missouri, St. Croix, Illinois, Kanawha, Ohio and Cumberland Rivers. Her many stops included Omaha, Nebraska; Stillwater, Minnesota; Montgomery, West Virginia; and Nashville, Tennessee.
By 1962, the Avalon fell into disrepair, and might have seen the end of its days, until Jefferson County Judge Marlow Cook bought her at an auction for $34,000. She came to Louisville and was re-christened the Belle of Louisville.
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
4th Street Live Entertainment District (Neighborhood)
420 W Liberty St Louisville KY
~0.38 miles from Louisville city center
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Louisville's premier entertainment and retail district located on Fourth Street in the heart of historic downtown Louisville, KY.
http://www.4thstlive.com
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Riverfront Plaza Belvedere
Louisville KY
~0.38 miles from Louisville city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Galleria Mall
Clarksville KY
~0.39 miles from Louisville city center
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts
Louisville KY
~0.43 miles from Louisville city center
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Muhammed Ali Center
Louisville KY
~0.47 miles from Louisville city center
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http://www.alicenter.org
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
Louisville KY
~0.56 miles from Louisville city center
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Louisville Science Center
727 W Main St Louisville KY - 502-561-6100
~0.57 miles from Louisville city center
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Louisville Slugger Bat Factory and Museum
800 West Main St. Louisville KY - 1-877-7-SLUGGER
~0.64 miles from Louisville city center
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http://www.sluggermuseum.org
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Louisville Glassworks
Louisville KY
~0.68 miles from Louisville city center
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Thomas Edison House
Clarksville KY
~0.68 miles from Louisville city center
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Louisville Palace
Louisville KY
~0.70 miles from Louisville city center
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Louisville Waterfront Park
Louisville KY
~0.70 miles from Louisville city center
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Frazier International History Museum
Louisville KY
~0.72 miles from Louisville city center
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Downtown Louisville (Neighborhood)
Clarksville KY
~0.90 miles from Louisville city center
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Falls of the Ohio Interpretive State Park
Louisville KY
~1.09 miles from Louisville city center
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Falls of the Ohio State Park is a state park in Indiana. It is located on the banks of the Ohio River at Clarksville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky.
The park is part of the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area. The main feature of the park is the exposed fossil beds dated from the Devonian period.
The park includes an interpretive center open to the public, built on the grounds where Camp Joe Holt once existed. In 1990 the Indiana state government hired Terry Chase, a well-established exhibit developer, to design the center's displays. Building started in September 1992, costing $4.9 million with a total area of 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m2). The center functions as a museum with exhibits that concentrate on the natural history related to findings in the nearby fossil beds as well as the human history of the Louisville area, covering pre-settlement, early settlement, and Louisville and southern Indiana history all the way up through the 20th century.
Fossil formations found along the shores of the Ohio River.
Unlike at other Indiana state parks, annual entrance permits do not allow unlimited free access (rather, only five people per pass per visit) to the interpretive center, as fees are still needed to reimburse the town of Clarksville for building the center.
The Woodland Loop Trail has ten new stainless steel markers denoting the plant life of the trails, thanks to an Eagle Scout project.
Strange wildlife has a habit of showing up in the park. In August 2006 a fisherman hooked a dead octopus. Living alligators and crocodiles have also been seen in the park.
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Falls of the Ohio Wildlife Conservation Area
Louisville KY
~1.17 miles from Louisville city center
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The area is located at the Falls of the Ohio, which was the only navigational barrier on the river in earlier times. The falls were a series of rapids formed by the relatively recent erosion of the Ohio River operating on 386 million-year-old Devonian hard limestone rock shelves. Louisville, Kentucky, and the associated Indiana communities — Jeffersonville, Clarksville, and New Albany — all owe their existence as communities to the falls, as the navigational obstacles the falls presented meant that late 18th Century and early to late 19th Century river traffic could benefit from local expertise in navigating the 26-foot (7.9 m) drop made by the river over a distance of two miles (3 km). In its original form, the falls could be characterized more as rapids extending over a length of the river, than as a point-like discontinuity in a river such as Niagara Falls. Still, the falls provided a singular, dramatic and daunting obstacle to navigation on this important inland waterway.
The first locks on the river were built on a bypass canal there to provide year-round navigation on the river. The falls were then largely covered by the McAlpine Locks and Dam, built by the Army Corps of Engineers. The taming of the Ohio River at the falls, with the attendant reduction in local flow velocity has of late led to the covering over of the fossil beds by large and increasing quantities of low-velocity effluvia: although an impediment to viewing of the fossils, this action serves to protect the portions of the falls covered over by sediment and therefore temporarily immune to direct weathering. However, a significant area of the fossil-rich Devonian limestone rock is still left exposed, and is accessible to visitors today. The best time for visitation is during the low water season of the Ohio River between August and October. Removal of fossils is prohibited.
Because of the shallowness of the river at the Falls, it was a favorite crossing point for bison in pre-settlement times, and was an easy crossing point for Native Americans.
In 1990, a section of the area in Indiana became the Falls of the Ohio State Park. An interpretive center is open throughout the year.
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Colgate Palmolive Factory and Clock
Louisville KY
~1.29 miles from Louisville city center
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The Colgate Clock, located at a Colgate-Palmolive factory in Clarksville, Indiana, is one of the largest clocks in the world. It has a diameter of 40 feet (12.19 meter). It was first illuminated in Clarksville on November 17, 1924. It is located directly across from Louisville, Kentucky.
Before the factory was bought by Colgate, it served as the Indiana Reformatory South. It opened in 1847, replacing the state prison which had opened in Jeffersonville in 1821. In 1919 a fire broke out in the prison, causing the need to spend much money to restore it to full operating procedure. Instead, the state of Indiana decided to relocate the prison elsewhere. Colgate happened to be looking for a Midwestern location following the post-World War I boom, and heard of the prison's availability. The state sold the building to Colgate in 1923. Prisoners, in fact, helped with the conversion from prison to soap-making plant, and even stayed in cells at the location while the conversion took place.
Designed by Colgate engineer Warren Day and constructed by the Seth Thomas Clock Company for the centennial of the Colgate Company in 1906, the clock served as the original Colgate Clock at Colgate-Palmolive facilities in Jersey City, New Jersey.
The clock, facing the Ohio River to the south, can be viewed across the river in Louisville, Kentucky.
The clock can be seen in the movie The Insider when Al Pacino and Russell Crowe are talking in the car.
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Landward House
Louisville KY
~1.91 miles from Louisville city center
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Conrad Caldwell House Museum
1402 Saint James Ct Louisville KY - 502-636-5023
~1.98 miles from Louisville city center
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A magnificent Richardsonian Mansion on St. James Court. The finest in the city. Also known as "Conrad's Castle," this is one of the most stunning of Old Louisville's houses and defines Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. The house was built for Theophilus Conrad, a Frenchman (Alsace) who made his fortune in the tanning business. The original construction price was $75,000.Walk around it and enjoy its gargoyles, swags, massive arches and fleur-de-lis.
The Caldwell family purchased it in 1905 after Mr. Conrad's death. They lived there for 35 years. It next served as the Rose Anna Hughes Presbyterian Retirement Home for 40 years. The St. James Court Historic Foundation purchased the home in 1987, restored it, and now operates the museum. Inside you will find breathtaking woodwork, stained glass and fixtures.
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
American Printing House for the Blind
Louisville KY
~1.99 miles from Louisville city center
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Howard Steamboat Museum
Louisville KY
~2.06 miles from Louisville city center
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Portland Museum
2308 Portland Ave Louisville KY - 502-776-7678
~2.09 miles from Louisville city center
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Simmons Bible College
1811 Dumesnil St Louisville KY - 502-776-1443
~2.37 miles from Louisville city center
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Speed Art Museum
Louisville KY
~2.68 miles from Louisville city center
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Cherokee Park
Louisville KY
~3.20 miles from Louisville city center
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Cherokee Park is a 409-acre (1.6 km²) municipal park located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It was designed, like 18 of Louisville's 123 public parks, by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture. Beargrass Creek runs through much of the park, and is crossed by numerous pedestrian and automobile bridges.
According to The Trust for Public Land, Cherokee Park has 500,000 visitors annually, making it tied for the 69th most popular municipal park in the United States.
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Bellarmine College
2001 Newburg Rd Louisville KY - 502.452.8000
~3.46 miles from Louisville city center
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http://www.bellarmine.edu
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Caritas Peace Center
2020 Newburg Rd # 200 Louisville KY - 502-451-3330
~3.49 miles from Louisville city center
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium
Louisville KY
~3.59 miles from Louisville city center
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