Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Requests
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Welcome to the Requested Articles department of WikiProject Louisville!
On this page are potential articles that WikiProject Louisville members have requested be created for the Wikipedia. However, if you know of a notable subject for an article that isn't listed here and want to create the article right away, you're more than welcome to proceed.
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[edit] Attractions and events
- Abbey Road on the River
- Carnegie Center for Art and History (New Albany)
- Conrad-Caldwell House
- Corydon Capitol State Historic Site
- Glassworks (Louisville)
- Jeffersontown Gaslight Festival — long tradition; categorize under "Louisville events" and "Festivals in Kentucky"
- Louisville Clock, the clock featuring the midday horse race, by sculptor Barney Bright; currently being restored
- Louisville Nature Center & Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve
- Portland Museum (Louisville)
[edit] Buildings and structures
- Clark County Airport
- Commonwealth Building (Louisville) (demolished in 1994; was 21 floors at 4th and Broadway)
- Dosker Manor
- Ekstrom Library
- Founders Square Visitor Center (unusual suspended glass building with a moat on Walnut between Armory and 5th; demolished)
- Henry Watterson Hotel (demolished; was 11 floors on 4th Street)
- Heyburn Building
- Jefferson County Courthouse (Kentucky)
- Kentucky Home Life Building
- Kentucky Towers Apartments
- Lee Terminal
- Louisville City Hall
- Louisville Water Tower
- Meidinger Tower
- Old Jail Building (Louisville) — former jail, over a century old; renovated and now houses government offices
- Realty Building (was 10 floors at Jefferson and Armory; demolished)
- Rialto Theater (Louisville)
- Starks Building
- Todd Building (was 10 floors at 4th and Market; demolished)
- Tyler Hotel (was 10 floors at 4th and Jefferson; demolished; was the Milner Hotel before demolition)
- United States Post Office and Customs House (the old one that was at 4th and Chestnut, 1892 - 1942)
- Washington Building (Louisville) (was 15 floors at 4th and Market)
- Water Tower (Louisville)
- Waterfront Plaza
[edit] Businesses and economy
- Business First
- Doe Run Inn (Brandenburg, Kentucky) — historical mill built from 1780-1821, now an inn and restaurant [1]
- Hilliard Lyons — currently redirecting to PNC Financial Services, but deserves its own article
- James Graham Brown Cancer Center
- Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare
- List of major employers in Louisville, Kentucky
- The Louisville Underground, a very unusual business.[2]
- Lynn's Paradise Cafe - has national fame, especially from the Food Network.
- Theatre a la Carte - A short-lived (1970s) cafe with entertainers performing for children.
[edit] Culture
- Brown Theater
- Jon Jory
- Kentucky Trackers, a colorful AFA professional football team in Louisville, 1979 - 1980
- Louisville Magazine
- Stephen Foster, The Musical
[edit] General
- {{Louisville}}, currently used as a userbox, but should be converted into an infobox like {{Los Angeles}}, which links to major city subarticles and all the city's neighborhoods.
[edit] Geography
- Eleven Jones Cave - home of endangered species; legend says treasure is hidden there.
- Parks:
- Parks of Louisville, Kentucky (overview article)
- Chickasaw Park
- Seneca Park
[edit] Government and politics
- Jefferson County Courthouse (Kentucky) - designed by Gideon Shryock to become Kentucky's state capitol building
- Jefferson County Fiscal Court
- Louisville City Hall
- Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metro Government Code of Ordinances
- Louisville/Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District (could include discussion of the drainage system in the area)
- {{LouisvilleMayors}} — show all mayors at a glance in every Louisville mayor article
- Louisville mayors, many of which don't have articles yet — categorize under Mayors of Louisville, Kentucky
- Emmet O'Neal - there is an article for the Alabama governor of this name but not one for the Louisvillian who served as a member of Congress and as ambassador to the Philippines (not to be confused with former Louisville mayor Joseph T. O'Neal)
- Seal of Louisville, Kentucky
[edit] History
- American Civil War Union fortifications in Louisville
- Bingham family — overview of famous Bingham family
- Bourbon Stockyards
- J. Graham Brown
- Brown General Hospital — instrumental in the Civil War
- Bullitt's Lick (west of Shepherdsville)
- Haymarket (Louisville) — need others' opinion about notability
- List of Louisville monuments and historical markers (search the Kentucky Historical Marker Database)
- Louisville Home Guard (Civil War)
- Louisville Legion (existed before Civil War)
- Mann's Lick (now Fairdale; namesake of Manslick Road)
- Naval Ordnance Station Louisville
- Newspapers: Louisville Commercial, Louisville Courier, Louisville Democrat and Louisville Journal (a couple of these are currently redirects, but perhaps deserve their own article)
- Jim Porter — locally famous, very tall man, namesake for Jim Porter's Tavern
- Lovell Rousseau — Union Brigadier General in the Civil War, buried in Cave Hill Cemetery
- Speed family — overview of famous Speed family
- Taylor Barracks, at Third and Oak Streets, an induction center for Union African-American troops.
- U.S. Marine Hospital [3] — National Historic Landmark, and instrumental in the Civil War
