Grove Arcade
Grove Arcade South Entrance
Opened in 1929, the Grove Arcade was a dream of Dr. Edwin Riley Grove, the owner of the Battery Park hotel which can bee seen in the photo below just behind the Arcade. Grove wanted to bring a shopping market to downtown Asheville, believing the a city needed a vibrant downtown area.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Arcade now has shops on the first floor, business offices on the second. The floors above the second are locked out, unless you have a key card.
North Entrance, Battery Park Hotel in the background
Looks like these were phone booths, now hold a display on the history of the Grove Arcade
Biltmore
The Biltmore Estate, Located in Asheville, NC was the home of the Vanderbilt family from 1895-1930. The family opened the estate to the public in 1930 and has remained on the top places to visit since. No photography is allowed in the house, but more than 8,000 acres are open to explore on the grounds.
The house sits on a hill and it is hard to find any signs of the outside world as far as you can see. This image is looking off to the Southwest.
This path, leads to the garden areas, which will be featured in a separate blog post.
Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins
The sugar plantation once owned by David Levy Yulee supplied sugar and molasses to the Southern Troops in the Civil War. All that remains now is the mill where they made raw sugar from the canes. Now the site is on the National Historic Landmarks Registry and is Florida State Park.
409 Bank Street
This structure is directly across Bank Street from the Carnegie Center for Arts & History. The door labled 409 is the office of Richard R. Fox Attorney. The building is marked as a New Albany Historic Landmark.
This is the door and Gas Lantern just out of sight (Camera Right) in the photo above.
MMX 086 Life Blood
The engraving between the statues reads: “Books are the precious life blood of master spirits embalmed and treasured up to a life beyond life”.
The Carnegie Center for Art & History located on 201 East Spring Street, New Albany, IN. This is the Bank Street entrance. The center hosts art exhibits and is a division of the New Albany-Floyd County Library.
Kentucky Electric Building
The public radio partnership known as Louisville Public Media has occupied this building since 2000. All I could find about the structure was on their website, calling it the old Kentucky Electric Building. Very nice detail on the facade.
MMX 080 Louisville
With more rain rapidly approaching this fair city, I was left to shoot from covered areas. This shot of Louisville is looking towards the west. The road you see is East Main Street. Not much to look at but it will do for a photo of the day.
Brennan House
From the Brennan House website:
The Brennan House (1868) is a Victorian mansion in downtown Louisville that is filled with an entirely original family collection. Thomas Brennan, a native of Ireland and a prominent inventor of the day, moved into the six-bedroom house with his wife, Anna Bruce, in 1884 and the house remained occupied as late as 1969. Two of the sons became doctors. One of them, Dr. J. A. O. Brennan, added a waiting room, office and examining room as a north wing to the house in 1912. Others moved to New York, including one son who became treasurer of the New York Yankees.
MMX 079 Palace Theater
From Wikipedia:
This historic landmark opened in 1928 and was designed by architect John Eberson. It has a seating capacity of 2,700.
Elegant and ornate, The Palace exhibits a Spanish Baroque motif with arcades, balconies and turrets. Cobalt blue, bursts of red and gold indirectly light all of the niches, coves and entrances. Above is a curved, vaulted ceiling with 139 sculptures of the faces of historical figures. The actual theater room inside The Palace is heavily ornamented and displays an imitation nighttime sky on the ceiling.
MMX 069 Tower
This tower features million dollar condos over looking the Ohio River and Waterfront Park.
MMX 062 First Unitarian
The Louisville First Unitarian Church was founded in 1830. The Unitarian and Universalist Churches merged in 1870 and built their church on this site, 4th & York Sts. A fire in 1985 consumed all of the sanctuary, leaving only the exterior walls. The church decided to remain in downtown Louisville and rebuilt the structure over a two year period. Architect John Grossman used the stone walls in his design of the new building, which was dedicated 26 March 1989.
Union Station
Opened in 1891,Union Station was operated and built by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. The station served as a rail depot until 1979, when Amtrak discontinued service to the station. The building is now the main offices for the Transit Authority of the River Cities (TARC), who runs the bus lines around the metro region. Read more about Union Station here
Joel Neild Photography 