Butchertown, Louisville
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Butchertown Historic District
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Washington Street in Butchertown
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| Location | Roughly bounded by Main, Hancock, Geiger, Quincy Sts., US 42, South Fork of Beargrass Creek, and Baxter Ave., Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Area | 50 acres (20 ha) |
| Built | 1873 |
| Architect | Adolph Druiding; D.X. Murphy and Company |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Shingle Style, Other, shot-gun |
| Website | louisvillebutchertown |
| NRHP Reference # | 76000900 |
| Added to NRHP | August 11, 1976 |
Coordinates: 38°15′26.96″N 85°43′41.53″W / 38.2574889°N 85.7282028°W
Butchertown is a neighborhood just east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA, bounded by I-65, Main Street, I-71, Beargrass Creek and Mellwood Avenue.
The first homes in the area were laid out in the 1820s along the newly completed Louisville to Lexington turnpike, referred to in that stretch as Story Avenue. Two of the first landowners in the area, Whig Party loyalist George Buchanan and Isaac Stewart, had the new community's streets named after major Whig Party members, such as John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. In the 1850s Beargrass Creek was rerouted away from what is now downtown Louisville and through the area, making it an ideal area for butchers and stockyards because the animal remains could be dumped in the creek and such businesses were banned in the downtown area for sanitation reasons. The population swelled as waves of German immigrants entered the area. Bourbon Stockyards, built in 1836, was the first stockyard to locate in Butchertown — currently, parts of the original building house a bank.
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