#1 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
KFC YUM Center
1 Arena Plaza Louisville KY
~0.14 miles from Louisville city center
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#2 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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#3 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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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Kentucky International Convention Center
221 S 4th St Louisville KY
~0.30 miles from Louisville city center
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The Kentucky International Convention Center, formerly called the Commonwealth Convention Center, is a large multi-use facility in Louisville, Kentucky opened in 1977. It, along with the Kentucky Exposition Center, hosts conventions for the Louisville area.
The Kentucky International Convention Center (KICC), formerly called the Commonwealth Convention Center, is a large multi-use facility in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It, along with the Kentucky Exposition Center, hosts conventions for the Louisville area. It was built on the site of the Tyler Block and opened in 1977.
While the convention center does not have a permanent arena, it still has hosted various sporting events, including the 2002 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball tournament and the NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship from 1995 to 2000. One of the exhibit halls was temporarily turned into an arena, with seats for about 7,000.
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#5 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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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Riverfront Plaza Belvedere
Louisville KY
~0.38 miles from Louisville city center
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Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere is a public area on the Ohio River in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Although proposed as early as 1930, the project did not get off the ground until $13.5 million in funding was secured in 1969 to revitalize the downtown area (through which Interstate 64 had just been built). On April 27, 1973 the Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere was dedicated. Running between Third and Sixth streets, it consisted of a large parking garage and the interstate, and a grassy 7-acre (28,000 m2) park built atop all of this. The grassy park section on the western end was the Belvedere, and the Riverfront Plaza to the east included other attractions: fountains, shelters and an ice-skating rink, as well as buildings such as the Galt House, One Riverfront Plaza and the American Life Building.
A prominent feature was a bronze sculpture by Felix de Weldon of George Rogers Clark, located immediately east of the park section. The Galt House, as well as The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, are incorporated into the plaza with walkway access. It also includes a glass elevator with access to three levels of the structure.
After several lawsuits alleging that corrosive materials had damaged cars in the parking garage, a $3.8 million renovation began in 1996. The aboveground portions were renovated in 1998 to provide a wider walkway to Fifth Street, as well as less visible concrete and a concert stage. The Belvedere is directly adjacent to Louisville Waterfront Park, which opened in the late 1990s, with stairs and an elevator leading down to the wharf between the two.
In 2003, a statue by sculptor Ed Hamilton of York, William Clark's manservant, with plaques commemorating the Lewis and Clark Expedition and York's participation in it, was erected at the Belvedere.
The plaza is the east terminus of the Riverwalk.
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#7 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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History
1980 - The Kentucky General Assembly and then-Governor John Y. Brown, Jr., forge a unique plan establishing a major public/private partnership to build The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. The idea for a performing arts center in Louisville had bounced around among civic, business and political leaders for over a dozen years already, but funding had never been easy.
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Muhammed Ali Center
Louisville KY
~0.47 miles from Louisville city center
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The Muhammad Ali Center, a museum and cultural center built as a tribute to the champion athlete and his values, is located in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the West Main District of downtown.
The six-story, 96,750 sq ft (8,988 m2). museum opened on November 19, 2005 at a cost of $80 million. It also includes a 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m2). two-level amphitheater and plaza, to be connected to the Louisville Museum Plaza upon its construction.
The cultural center features exhibitions regarding Muhammad Ali's core values on respect, confidence, conviction, dedication, charity, and spirituality. An orientation theater helps present Ali's life from birth to the present. A mock-boxing ring is recreated based on his Deer Lake Training Camp. A two-level pavilion, housed within a large elliptical room, features Ali's boxing memorabilia and history. A large projector displays 'The Greatest', his signature fight, onto a full-sized boxing ring. There are also pods where one can view Ali's greatest fights on video-on-demand terminals that feature pre- and post-fight interviews.
Another exhibit offers individuals the chance to explore sense of self, others and purpose through an interactive terminal program. The final exhibits include 'Hope and Dream' and 'Global Voices'. 'Hope and Dream' is composed of over 5,000 tiles with drawings and paintings from children from 141 countries; they tell what they want to be when they grow up. 'Global Voices' is a similar project, in which the Ali Center asked questions to both children and adults from around the world. The answers were submitted through a variety of mediums, such as drawings and poems, and are now displayed in the exhibit.
Two art galleries, the LeRoy Neiman Gallery and the Howard L. Bingham Gallery, feature rotating exhibits that are located on the third floor.
http://www.alicenter.org
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#9 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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The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, located in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the West Main District of downtown, is a nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to continue the art and craft heritage of Kentucky through the support and education of craft artists and education of the public. The museum is supported in part by the Fund for the Arts and Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency of the Commerce Cabinet.
Founded in 1981 by Phyllis George Brown, then First Lady of Kentucky and former Miss America, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft was started to build interest in Kentucky's rich craft and art resources. With the help of Mary Shands, the start of the center began with ease.
In 1984 the organization moved into the lower level of a West Main Street building to have more space for things like a gift shop. When the moved occurred the west district of downtown Louisville had low occupancy rates for the buildings. The location of several museums like the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft helped revitalize this area of downtown.
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#10 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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The Louisville Science Center, previously known as the Louisville Museum of Natural History & Science, is Kentucky's largest hands-on science museum. Located in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the West Main District of downtown, the museum operates as a non-profit organization. It was founded in 1871 as a natural history collection, and now more than half a million people visit the museum annually. More students in Kentucky take field trips to the Louisville Science Center than to any other destination.
There are about 550,000 visitors annually. A special hands-on area for children younger than seven was renovated and renamed KidZone in 1998, featuring six educational activity areas.
The building itself is located at 727 West Main Street, and takes up 150,000 ft². This includes a four-story IMAX theater, built in 1988, in which three million people have seen at least one of the 45 different films shown there. The distinctive cast-iron facade limestone building was originally built in 1878 as a dry goods warehouse. The city purchased the building in 1975 and the museum moved into the premises in 1977, subsequently winning several design awards for its preservation of an older building.
On January 11, 2007, Mayor Jerry Abramson announced the city has agreed to purchase property that will enable the Louisville Science Center to expand. The city is acquiring the historic Alexander Building which dates back to 1880 and is adjacent to the current buildings.
The center will begin construction later this year to create a $1 million Science Education Wing in the building's first floor. The new wing, encompassing more than 5,300 square feet (490 m2), will include four science-workshop labs equipped for "hands-on" student and parent activities. Programs for students and teachers will correspond to the Science Center's core exhibits focusing on physical, natural and life sciences. The five-story Alexander Building totals nearly 37,000 square feet (3,400 m2). On October 3, 2009, The Louisville Science center now has one of the most famous ships in the world's artifacts, the legendary RMS Titanic came to Louisville. The Louisville Science Center's Titanic Exhibit will hold the same amount of tickets that numbered to the same amount of passengers on the Titanic. The tickets will hold who you are who was onboard Titanic and what their class is, and those tickets tell you if you survived the Titanic.
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#11 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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The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, a museum located in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the West Main District of downtown, showcases the history of the Louisville Slugger brand of baseball bats made by Hillerich & Bradsby, and of baseball in general. Inside the production of the bats is presented, along with historical examples of bats (such as an 1880s Pete Browning bat they recently discovered or the bat that Babe Ruth used to hit his last home run as a Yankee). Outside is a six-story bat that appears to be leaning against the museum building but is completely free standing, the bat weighs 68,000 pounds. (It is billed as the world's largest bat, although it is hollow and made of steel.) The building also serves as their corporate headquarters and a production facility.
http://www.sluggermuseum.org
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Louisville Glassworks
Louisville KY
~0.68 miles from Louisville city center
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The Louisville Glassworks is located in the West Main District of Downtown Louisville, Kentucky and is a multi-use facility. There are three working glass studios, two glass galleries, and daily tours. Lofty Living manages the building leases.
From 1850 to 1901, at least seven different glass factories operated in Louisville. Six were bottle houses, and the other did window and plate glass. In 1850 the Kentucky Glass Works was formed, which would later become Louisville Glassworks but at no time was either referred to as an actual company. The firms' names since 1850 that bottled under the names of Kentucky Glassworks or Louisville Glassworks consisted of Taylor Stanger Ramsey & Company (1850, for a few months), Douglass & Taylor (1850-1855; listed as the "Douglass Glass Works" in an 1851 city directory), Douglass Rutherford & Company (1855-1856), Stanger Doyle & Co. (1856), Krack Stanger & Co. (1856-1864), J.A.Krack & Co. (1864 - Feb 1, 1866), Krack & Reed (Feb.1, 1866-1869), Krack Reed & Co. (1869-1871), and L.S. Reed & Brother (1871-1873). During the 19th century the glass companies in Louisville mainly purchased their sand from a business in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. In 1896 Edwin Penna began operation of the Glassworks, and has gone under five generations of Penna ownership. The Louisville Glassworks opened in 2001 with the Architectural Glass studio fathering it, but still under ownership with Page von Roenn passed down from Kenneth F. von Roenn Jr which received ownership from Edwin Penna III. The Louisville Glassworks is currently under its fifth generation of ownership.
The downtown location has historically been known as the Snead Manufacturing Building, and was put on the National Register in 1978. Snead was responsible for building many iron buildings around the country. After the old building burnt down, the architect was told to build a "first-class fireproof power building".
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Thomas Edison House
Clarksville KY
~0.68 miles from Louisville city center
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Thomas Edison House is a historic house located in the Butchertown neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. The house is a shotgun duplex built around 1850. Thomas Edison took up residence in the same neighborhood, possibly even at this location, a part of the time he lived in Louisville from 1866 to 1867. The house features a museum that honors Edison and his inventions.
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Louisville Palace
Louisville KY
~0.70 miles from Louisville city center
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The Louisville Palace is a theatre in downtown Louisville, Kentucky located in the city's so-called theater district on the east side of Fourth Street between Broadway and Chestnut Street. This historic landmark opened in 1928 and was designed by architect John Eberson. It has a seating capacity of 2,700.
Elegant and ornate, The Palace exhibits a Spanish Baroque motif with arcades, balconies and turrets. Cobalt blue, bursts of red and gold indirectly light all of the niches, coves and entrances. Above is a curved, vaulted ceiling with 139 sculptures of the faces of historical figures. The actual theater room inside The Palace is heavily ornamented and displays an imitation nighttime sky on the ceiling.
The theater is two stories with a floor and a balcony. Both floors contain bars that run the width of the building behind the theater, separated by a grand lobby of intricate art and architecture.
Its uncommon appearance has made it a popular venue for musicians to record live performances (including Third Day and Alison Krauss).
Today, the theatre features an array of popular movies, old and new, as well as concerts by popular artists ranging from Jewel to Queensrÿche to Godsmack to the Jonas Brothers, most recently being Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on the opening dates of their Raising Sand tour, which began on April 19 and 20, 2008.
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Louisville Waterfront Park
Louisville KY
~0.70 miles from Louisville city center
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Louisville Waterfront Park is a 72-acre (291,000 m²) municipal park adjacent to the downtown area of Louisville, Kentucky and the Ohio River. Specifically, it is adjacent to Louisville's wharf and Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere, which are situated to the west of the park.
Phase I of Waterfront Park consists of approximately 55 acres (223,000 m²) and was dedicated on July 4, 1999. Louisville architects Bravura Corporation, together with Hargreaves Associates, were the designers of the park. Much of the park, such as the Great Lawn, had opened to the public by the fall of 1998. The initial development cost was about $58 million, a combination of public and private money.[1] The site of the park was previously used for industrial purposes: scrap yards, sand pits and other industrial sites.
The park hosted hundreds of events in its first full season of use, including outdoor concerts and other festivals, with an estimated total attendance of more than a million people. There were problems early-on with the grass being too easily worn down by visitors.
Phase II of the park opened on June 10, 2004, and added approximately 17 acres (69,000 m²), including the Adventure Playground, which opened in July 2003. Included is an esplanade along the river's edge and a cafe plaza where the Tumbleweed cafe opened in Spring 2005. The park also contains the Brown-Forman amphitheater, docks for transient boaters, and an area for a new rowing facility. The latter is used for the University of Louisville Women's Rowing Team, school and community rowing groups.
Construction on part of Phase III began in late Spring 2005, to add 13 acres (53,000 m²) and include the conversion of the former Big Four Railroad bridge into the longest pedestrian-only bridge in the world. The bridge will connect to Jeffersonville, Indiana's waterfront park. Several more lawn areas, tree groves, walking paths, and picnic areas will also be added. As of May 2007 it is not clear when the long-planned conversion will begin, as funding has not yet been found.
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Frazier International History Museum
Louisville KY
~0.72 miles from Louisville city center
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The Frazier International History Museum, formerly the Frazier Historical Arms Museum, is a museum located in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the West Main District of downtown. It is named for founder Owsley Brown Frazier.
The facilities include 75,000 square feet (7,000 m2) of exhibition space over three floors, as well as two areas for interpretations, a 120-seat auditorium, a 48-seat movie theater, and various displays (including multimedia, interactive and audio-visual). The Frazier Museum Store is located on the first floor in the front of the museum, and contains a small vending/eating area.
A number of costumed interpreters are employed, and a tournament ring features live demonstrations on the use of arms and armor. There are educational, cultural and entertainment activities at the museum throughout the day and evening. There are also traveling exhibitions on display that are on loan from various sources.
In addition, the museum also has a fifth floor rooftop garden that can be rented for activities.
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Downtown Louisville (Neighborhood)
Clarksville KY
~0.90 miles from Louisville city center
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#18 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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#19 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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#20 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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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Landward House
Louisville KY
~1.91 miles from Louisville city center
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The Landward House is a brick Italianate mansion with a limestone facade and projected entrance. There are 22 rooms and six bathrooms in this three-story building. Dr. Stuart Robinson used the mansion as his office. The garden was created by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. in 1929. The tertiary garden features a vegetable garden, a labyrinth garden, and an informal side garden. A landscape-architecture firm uses its carriage house for its office. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1973.
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#22 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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#23 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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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Howard Steamboat Museum
Louisville KY
~2.06 miles from Louisville city center
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The Howard Steamboat Museum is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky. Based in the old Howard home, it features items related to steamboat history.
The home was built in 1890 by Edmonds J. Howard, who inherited the family shipyard from his father James Howard, who founded the Howard Ship Yards, both in what was then Port Fulton, Indiana. It cost $100,000 to build the 22-room, 3-floor structure. Still within the museum are chandeliers, carvings, arches and a grand staircase that reflect the wealth Edmonds Howard had. As the Howards prided themselves on their hulls, a large collection of the half-breadths is displayed on the property.
Over the course of ownership of the Howard Shipyards, 3,000 ships were launched in what to its day is the largest inland shipyard in the United States. The Howard Shipyard was eventually made into Jeffboat.
On March 17, 1971, a fire broke out in the museum; the museum reopened the next year.
Since 1993, the Museum holds an annual Chautauqua in May, which features craft booths on the grounds, while inside the mansion talks are given about various topics. 2007's was about the Ohio River flood of 1937.
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#25 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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Features a 23-minute light and sound show about the Portland community and an arts and humanities gallery. Keeps seasonal hours.
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#26 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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Simmons College of Kentucky, also referred to as Simmons College and Simmons Bible College, is a private, co-educational college located in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1879, Simmons College is a historically black college. The school is in applicant status for accreditation from the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) and also plans to apply to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Louisville
Speed Art Museum
Louisville KY
~2.68 miles from Louisville city center
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The Speed Art Museum, colloquially referred to as the Speed by locals, is the oldest and largest museum of art in Kentucky. It is located in Louisville, Kentucky next to the University of Louisville Belknap campus.
The museum, built in Neo-Classical style, houses over 12,000 pieces of art in its permanent collection. It contains ancient, classical, and modern art from around the world.
The museum opened its doors in 1927 and was named after James Breckenridge Speed, whose wife Hattie Speed set up the endowment that funded the museum. She specified that the museum must never charge admission. There were over 200,000 visitors in its first two weeks of operation. In 1997, the museum underwent a $12 million renovation and expansion.
Admission is still free, although a $4 donation is recommended. The museum receives around 180,000 visitors per year.
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#28 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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#29 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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#30 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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