Louisville Photographs - Buildings

	Photograph Date 1940's Location 434 Broadway, south east corner at Fifth Street. Description The Art Moderne Greyhound bus station was designed by Louisville architect William Arrasmith. This terminal was demolished in the 1960's and replaced by a parking lot. Arrasmith-designed terminals in other cities have been designated as historic landmarks. Photographer Lucille Fesenden Dandelet......Negative No 89_23_07
	Photograph Date c. 1915 Location 1311 south Preston Street. Description The George F. Tingley (elementary) school, on Preston Street at the south east corner of Ormsby. Photographer Staff of the Louisville Herald Post.......Negative No 94_18_1058
	Photograph Date c. 1905 Location 910 West Main Street. Description The Louisville Tobacco Warehouse, 910 West Main Street. West Main Street was the "Tobacco District" in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1905 there were fourteen tobacco warehouses on Main between Ninth and Twelfth Streets. Photographer Detroit Publishing Co., probably made by the Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville..... Negative No 99_75_07
	Photograph Date 1913 Location 817-127 west Market Street. Description View of the Snead Building, north side of Market Street between Eighth and Ninth Streets. The Snead Building at Ninth and Market was a speculative building, designed to house a variety of businesses and replaced the former Snead Iron Works. The building is made of poured concrete and is on rockers, to accommodate the movement of the building caused by huge presses operated in the building. The building has been rehabilitated as residential lofts, office space and the Glassworks museum and factory. Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville.....Negative No CS_004030
	Photograph Date c.1912 Location North east corner of Fourth and Chestnut Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Description United States Customs House and Post Office which opened in April, 1892. Built of Bowling Green Oolithic limestone, the Post Office was described as the most notable building in the city and it dominated the downtown area until it was razed in 1942. Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio Negative No. CS_006950
	Photograph Date c. 1912 Location North east corner, Fourth and Main Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Description The ten-story Columbia Building, designed by Louisville architects Cornelius Curtin and Pike Campbell, was Louisville's tallest structure when it opened January 1, 1891. The Romanesque-style building, originally called the Commercial Building, was razed in 1966. The site is now occupied by the Commonwealth Bank and Trust Co. Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville….Negative No CS_006966
	Photograph Date c.1912 Location Seventh Street at River Road Description Central Station, originally called Union Depot was built by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O) in 1891. It replaced an earlier wooden station and a partially completed station which was destroyed by the tornado of 1890. Designed in massive Richardsonian Romanesque style by McDonald Brothers, the station was in operation until 1963. It then briefly served as the home of Actor's Theater before being razed in 1968 to make way for Interstate 64. Photographer Caufield & Shook Stuido.....Negative No CS_007010
	Photograph Date c. 1910 Location 2762 Frankfort Avenue, at South Birchwood Avenue Description The Crescent Hill Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library. One of nine libraries (main library and eight branches) built with funds supplied by Andrew Carnegie beginning in 1908. Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville......Negative No CS_007036
	Photograph Date 1922 Location Jefferson Street, north west corner at Sixth Street Description Louisville's City Hall, designed by architect John Andrewartha, was built between 1870 and 1873. Its blend of Italianate and French Second Empire architectural styles was popular in civic buildings after the Civil War. Carved into the Indiana limestone facades is ornamentation intended to be symbolic of Louisville's economy including a locomotive and the heads of cows, pigs, horses and sheep. Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville …..Negative No CS_042702
	Photograph Date c.1960 Location Jefferson Street, north west corner at Sixth Street. Description Louisville's City Hall. Detail, west façade, showing carved heads of a horse, pig and cow. Photographer Theodore H. Brown …..Negative No bd52
	Photograph Date 1927 Location 112 South Fifth Street, west side between Main and Market. Description The six-story Kenyon Building, designed by Louisville Architect Mason Maury, was Louisville's first "skyscraper" when it opened in 1886. The Richardsonian, Chicago school brick office building was located at 112 South Fifth Street. The building has been demolished. Photographer Caufield & Shook Studio, Louisville…..Negative No CS_083861