..more like Indianapolis than Cincinnati?

 

 

The Smoketown and Phoenix Hill area.

 

 

St Martin of Tours steeple.  Treeline in the distance is the edge of the flat city, marking the start of the Highlands...

 

 

 

Reminds me of an older Columbus too.

The part of Columbus where I flash on a Louisville vibe is that neighborhood between Goodale Park and OSU...Neal Avenue?  Victorian Village?....it's like Old Louisville, but maybe not so over-the-top, architecturally speaking.  But the long tree lined streets and big old houses...you can catch a similar thing (including the N-S orientation of the streets).

 

Louisville doesn't have a German Village, though.  The equivilant neighborhoods were cleared via urban renewal and subsequent demolitions.

 

 

 

 

Louisville doesn't have a German Village, though. The equivilant neighborhoods were cleared via urban renewal and subsequent demolitions.

That's too bad. So does Louisville have an 'older' residential area near downtown at all?

^

depends on how "near" is near.  Nothing as close as OTR, Oregon, or German Village.

 

Probably the oldest mostly intact neighborhoods, in terms of physical age, are Portland and Butchertown, (in Portlands case in age of platting, too), but they are some distance from downtown. 

 

I think I did a few posts on this a while back..Louisville First and Last Houses, sort of a fun thing looking at the first houses one encounters as one heads out of downtown in various directions.

 

 

 

 

That's too bad. So does Louisville have an 'older' residential area near downtown at all?  :? :?

 

 

^

depends on "near".  About the closest is probably the northern reaches of Limerick and Old Louisville.    Here's an example from Limerick.