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Date Constructed: 1947
Address: 525 W Broadway
Current Building Name: The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times (newspapers)
Earlier Building Names: None
Architect: Lockwood Groen, New York - supervised locally by Joseph H. Kolbrook, Architect.
Builder: Unknown at this time
Current Status: In use.
Designation (if applicable): Unknown at this time
The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times building is located at 525 West Broadway on the corner of its intersection with 6th Street.
It is in the Art-Moderne/Streamline-Moderne style. There are window dividers that appear to be Vitrolite - turquoise in color. It also has patterned bronze panels between some of the window panels on the first floor
The Louisville Times evening newspaper ceased publication with the last issue on February 14, 1987, and now the Courier-Journal is the only daily newspaper in the Louisville metro area. It is now owned by Gannett.
More research to come.
Photos by Jim L. Patterson - copyright 2006.
Click on the thumbnail photo to view a larger image.
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 Sculptor: Marshall Fredericks |
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