Q: How do you say the capitol of Kentucky...Looahvul or Luhvul?

 

 

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A:FRANKFORT!

 

A shocking little city not much bigger than a Canton, Frankfort is certainly worth a visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old capitol building

 

Cool entertainment district

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only a couple old "towers" exist

 

 

Impressive Library

 

New crap library on the way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wildcat Blue for the Roebling?

 

 

 

 

 

The new capitol is oddly in a residential neighborhood

 

 

 

 

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Governor's Mansion

I've always liked how it's in that quarry-like setting.

That town sure is purdy...   :clap:

Quite a handsome old city!

 

Something about some of those downtown views made me think of Lafayette, Indiana.

Seperated at Birth

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

^LOL.

 

That hotel needs a new facade bad, it looks like the projects and totally clashes with Frankfort's architecture.

 

Frankfort is a beautiful little town. Been awhile since I've visited...thanks for the photos.

I've always thought that people mistakenly thought of Lexington as the capital...not Loserville :speech:

^It is a joke, I've heard David Letterman use it a couple times on people who come on the show from Kentucky. People get distracted by the pronunciations (sp?) of Louisville, and forget its not the capital.

The Old State Capital is a great little gem of American Classical Reivival.  Frankfort also has a claim to culinary fame as this was where Bibb Lettuce was developed.

 

A local, Paul Sawyer, became an American impressionist painter. Frankfort and the surrounding country was a frequent subject, and Sawyer prints are found in many a Kentucky home

 

 

 

 

 

 

But heres another separated at birth

 

 

 

 

Very nice.  I've never been but it looks very nice.  Thanks for the tour Ink.

What is up with that tower?  Any history on that thing.  Doesn't seem to match anything.  Richmond, VA has an ungly "tower of power."  Is that what that is supposed to be.  Also, what is that HUGE new modern building?

I'm not sure about the tower, but I think it is a state office building.

 

As for the other building, I put a clue above the pic. (KTC)

What is up with that tower?  Any history on that thing.  Doesn't seem to match anything.  Richmond, VA has an ungly "tower of power."  Is that what that is supposed to be.

 

Capital Plaza.  The tower (a state office building) is the focal point of a windswept plaza and sunken shopping center (when it was first built...not sure if its stlll there), with a small convention center on the other end.  The hotel came much later.

 

The inspiration was probably Empire State Plaza in Albany (AKA The Albany Mall)

 

 

..both designed by the same architect, Edward Durrell Stone.  Kentucky at that time had a GOP governor, Louie Nunn, who apparently was trying to imitate John D Rockfeller, the gov. of NY who sponsored the Albany Mall.  So Frankfort got a cut-rate version  Stone (or his office) also did a dorm complex in Lexington, the Paducah City Hall, and a state resort park over at Kentucky Lake or Lake Barkley (I forget which).

 

And yes that tower is pretty much out of scale compared to the rest of Frankfort, esp. the older part of town it sits in.

 

 

 

 

That tower is horribly beautiful - just like Albany.