Douglass Loop
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Douglass Loop is a neighborhood five miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky USA. It is also referred to as Highlands Douglass. The area was originally part of a 200 acre estate belonging to Mississippi plantation owner Stark Fielding, referred to as the 'Woodbourne Estate'. In 1870, the land was bought by then Western Union president George Douglass, for whom the area is named. His original home still stands, located behind Douglass Boulevard Christian Church. The large Greek Revival mansion was originally built by Fielding in the 1830s, and from the 1930s until 1949 was Rugby University School, an exclusive boy's preparatory school.
After Douglass' death the area was subdivided and developed. In 1912, a street car line was extended down Bardstown Road from Highland Avenue to Douglass Blvd, where it "looped" around and went back toward downtown. A part of Louisville's larger Highlands neighborhood, it is often referred to as Highlands-Douglass. Most houses in Douglass Loop were built in the 1920s, as undeveloped land closer to the Original Highlands became nonexistent and the "outer Highlands" became popular.
The neighborhood is bounded by Bardstown Road, Speed Avenue, Taylorsville Road, and Cherokee Park.
[edit] Demographics
As of 2000, the population of Douglass Loop was 3,248 , of which 96.3% are white, 1.8% are black, 1.2% are Hispanic, and 0.7% are listed as other. College graduates are 59.8% of the population, people without a high school degree are 4.2%. Females outnumber males 51.9% to 48.1%.
[edit] References
- ↑ Community Resource Network. Retrieved on 2005-11-18.
