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Louisville City Hall in downtown, built 1870–1873, is a blend of Italianate styles characteristic of Neo-Renaissance. The Louisville Metro Council is the city council of Louisville, Kentucky (Louisville Metro). It was formally established in January 2003 upon the merger of the former City of Louisville with Jefferson County and replaced the ...
Founded in 1928, the Louisville Regional Airport Authority (LRAA) is an autonomous municipal corporation established by Chapter 77 of the 1928 Public Acts for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Under the provisions of Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 183, the LRAA is responsible for the establishment, ownership, operation, development, and ...
Walnut Street Baptist Church was founded in 1815 as the First Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. In the beginning, the congregation had 18 members who met primarily in their homes. The congregation served the Louisville community for 30 years as First Baptist Church. In 1845 the First and Second Baptist churches called the same pastor and ...
Louisville's Land Development Code dates back to the 1930s when redlining was a new practice and neighborhoods were intentionally segregated by race. Through its 90-year history, the code has been ...
Louisville's groundbreaking Fairness Ordinance turns 25. 'We are not leaving people behind.'. Louisville's groundbreaking Fairness Ordinance turns 25. Addressing elected leaders in public was ...
Louisville passes KY’s first Fairness Ordinance. It took eight years of grassroots organizing to pass the first local ordinance protecting the LGBTQ+ community from discrimination in Kentucky in ...
Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky. The fountain at St. James Court in Old Louisville. This is a list of official neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky. Like many older American cities, Louisville has well-defined neighborhoods, many with well over a century of history as a neighborhood. The oldest neighborhoods are the riverside areas of ...
History. From its earliest days Louisville was governed by a board of trustees. In 1828, when it became Kentucky's first city, government shifted to a ten-member "Common Council". In 1851 the city was given a new charter, keeping the Common Council as a "lower house" to the Board of Aldermen, an "upper house" of the city's legislative power.