Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Louisville Public Media. Kentucky Public Radio, doing business as Louisville Public Media, is a non-profit organization that operates the three National Public Radio member stations in Louisville, Kentucky —news and talk WFPL, classical WUOL-FM, and adult album alternative WFPK . The current organization began in 1993, when the Louisville ...
The Kentucky Standard was started December 15, 1900 by Jack Wilson, a former employee of the Nelson County Record. The newspaper was sold to Nelson County Circuit Clerk Wallace Brown in 1901. The former owner still contributed as an editor for the paper. In 1919, Alfred S. Wathen bought enough stocks of the company to become the newspaper's ...
Historic Locust Grove. / 38.2870556°N 85.6619167°W / 38.2870556; -85.6619167. Historic Locust Grove is a 55- acre 18th-century farm site and National Historic Landmark situated in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky in what is now Louisville. The site is owned by the Louisville Metro government, and operated as a historic interpretive ...
Standard Gravure was a Louisville, Kentucky rotogravure printing company founded in 1922 by Robert Worth Bingham and owned by the Bingham family. For decades, it printed the weekly The Courier-Journal [1] as well as rotogravure sections for other newspapers as well as Parade. [citation needed] By the 1980s, a shrinking print market had reduced ...
At that time a part of Kentucky County, Virginia, the town was chartered in 1780 and named Louisville in honor of King Louis XVI of France . In 2003, the city of Louisville merged with Jefferson County to become Louisville-Jefferson Metro. As of the 2010 census, it is the largest city in the state of Kentucky, the largest on the Ohio River, and ...
Kentucky Performing Arts. Capacity. 1,400. Opened. 1925. The W. L. Lyons Brown Theatre, originally called the Brown Theatre, is a restored theatre dating back to 1925 that seats approximately 1,400 patrons in Louisville, Kentucky. It is ones of three venues owned by Kentucky Performing Arts. [1] [2]
Heyburn Building. / 38.24556°N 85.75778°W / 38.24556; -85.75778. The Heyburn Building is a 17-floor, 250-foot (76-m) building in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States. In the early 20th century, it was an integral part of the "magic corner" of Fourth Street and Broadway, which rivaled Main Street as Louisville's business district.
Humana Building. Coordinates: 38°15′23.35″N 85°45′31.28″W. Viewed from 6th and Main. The Humana Building, also known as the Humana Tower, [1] is a 1985 skyscraper in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, located at 500 West Main Street and headquarters of the Humana Corporation. It was built by the Auchter Company. [citation needed]