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| Louisville Armory, 1905. |
There's a new Facebook page for brainstorming: "This page created by Byron Hoagland as a citizen activist/urban dreamer. Feel free to throw more ideas on the pile!"
City Market at Louisville Gardens
The missing link to downtown Louisville's potential resurgence as a livable/walkable neighborhood...A Central Market. What better location? The Gardens!
In 2014, Melissa Chipman surveyed the building's past and present.
Urban ruin: A tour of the deteriorating historic Louisville Gardens, by Melissa Chipman (Insider Louisville)
... Louisville Gardens was built as the Jefferson County Armory in 1905 and designed by Brinton B. Davis, a native of Natchez, Miss. who later settled in Louisville. Most people think of an armory as a place to store munitions, but it was much more than that, explained Morris ...
... The 220,000-square-foot building is “built like a European train station” and its basement is a bit of a maze. There is definite evidence of people having fairly recently lived in the basement ...
... The city of Louisville acquired the building during the city-county merger in 2003. It has been completely out of operation since 2009, and the city now uses it for storage. You could furnish a whole office building with the chairs and desks and filing cabinets scattered around the arena.
