In 1883, President Chester Arthur opened Louisville’s Southern Exposition, an early world’s fair that drew nearly 800,000 visitors in its first 88 days and sparked the growth of the city’s first suburb — the opulent Victorian neighborhood now known as Old Louisville.
Local writers David Dominé and Ronald Lew Harris scoured photo albums and attics for long-lost images of the neighborhood’s history, assembling a visual record of one of the country’s largest historic preservation districts for this entry in the Images of America series.
Published 2010
128 pages
$24.99