April 2025 – Gardens to Gables

April 30, 2025

I am incontrovertibly incapable of research without distractions. If I am searching through historic newspapers on a specific hunt, I never fail to scan the whole page, eyes roving for any interesting tidbit. This is, of course, not without its drawbacks, but since I am also a compulsive list maker, I just add these (read more)

Category: Jefferson County

Tags: #kentuckyarchitecture, #louisvilleky

April 21, 2025

It’s a busy Monday, and amid the bustle of work and life, I don’t know when I will be able to write a blog post. But I have determined to steal 15 minutes and share this lovely historic house, in hopes that it brings some joy to your day. Built in 1901 for an (read more)

Category: Louisville

Tags: #historicdistrict, #kentuckyarchitecture, #louisvilleky, #oldlouisville, #stjamesbelgravia

April 16, 2025

The circa 1894 Covington Brothers Wholesale Grocery Building in Paducah, Kentucky, at the corner of Jefferson and North Third Streets, is facing a likely emergency demolition. Is there anyone in Paducah who could go take some photographs of all elevations of the building for me before its destruction? The three story brick building, home (read more)

Category: McCracken County

Tags: #demolitionbyneglect, #kentuckyarchitecture, #paducahky

April 8, 2025

Spring weather in Kentucky is always unpredictable, but when the meteorologists started predicting rainfall amounts last week, my breath caught. On the second of April, I was up most of the night monitoring the tornado warnings. The rain started on Thursday, April 3, 2025. By the end of the day on Friday, our rain gauge (read more)

Category: Franklin County

Tags: #april2025floods, #kentuckyfloods

April, 2025

A Good Brick Cottage of Three Rooms, Louisville, Kentucky

A Venetian Gothic Gem in Louisville, Kentucky

Wrecking Ball Watch: Covington Brothers Wholesale Grocery Building, Paducah, Kentucky

April Showers Bring… Disastrous Floods in Kentucky

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