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East side of Southern Parkway between Watterson Expressway and Florence, southwest - Southern Heights-Beechmont District Landscapes, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY
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East side of Southern Parkway between Watterson Expressway and Florence, southwest - Southern Heights-Beechmont District Landscapes, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY
Description
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Frankfort, KY; Olmstead, Frederick Law, Architect
Depicted place Kentucky; Jefferson County; Louisville
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS KY-206-11
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Olmstead Park System is significant as an example of the active nineteenth century park and boulevard movement. The park system also represents the work of Frederick Law Olmstead (1822-1903) considered this nation's first and most comprehensive environmental planner and the "Father" of American Landscape Architecture. His list of accomplishments is impressive: Central Park in New York, Fanklin Park in Boston, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, grounds and settings of the Capitol in Washington, the Campuses of Berkeley and Stanford Universities, the layout of the Chicago suburb of Riverside, and the general layout and landscaping of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Olmstead Park System is also significant as a continuing achievement of its intended purpose to provide a sylvan retreat amid growing urban pressures.

The Southern Parkway is significant as a linear park or tree-lined boulevard that connects into the Olmstead Park System of Louisville. The finer Victorian homes between Burkley/Southern Heights and the remaining mixed commercial residential portions of the parkway serve to historically date the boulevard movement and present the idyllic side of urban life.

  • Survey number: HABS KY-206
  • Building/structure dates: 1930 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ky0275.photos.222022p
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Object location38° 15′ 15.01″ N, 85° 45′ 33.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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