Jeremy and I walked to Brownings on Main Street through falling snow last month, so when I saw the fresh snow this morning I could hardly wait to get out in it and make some pictures! The results are posted on the Butchertown Views page. Snowy Views
Along with declines in property values, upkeep, and tight-knit residential character, the combined 1960’s and 70’s forces of urban renewal, shortsighted zoning, and interstate construction had a combined detrimental effect on transportation within and through Butchertown. What once was a multimodal, densely mixed-use neighborhood with efficient two-way gridded street pattern became fractured by crisscrossing interstates [...]
A new feature we’d like to implement is titled “The Opinion of a Resident…” Please check it out. Under “Pages”, right-hand side. The Opinion of a Resident
Continue reading about Seeking neighborhood opinions, stories, comments…
Welcome to this website dealing with the Butchertown neighborhood and the release of my first book, Louisville’s Butchertown by Arcadia Press on February 8th, 2010. Butchertown was founded in the early 1800′s by butchers who found the location between turnpikes heading in with livestock from farms, transportation via railway and riverboats to far away markets, [...]
