Historic Old Louisville Kentucky.
The iPhone App now available on iTunes.
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The Preservation District
Old Louisville is a story of urban revitalization within the heart of a city. This neighborhood in north-central Kentucky has the largest collection of late-Victorian-era architecture in the USA. Old Louisville also comprises the third-largest National Historic Preservation District in the USA, and many structures are also on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to the Old Louisville Preservation District, Louisville’s Historic Landmarks and Preservation District Commission has designated another neighboring preservation district, the Limerick Preservation District to the immediate northwest.
The Old Louisville iPhone App
The iPhone App titled Historic Old Louisville Kentucky is a software application that may be purchased and downloaded on the internet from the iTunes Store and used on any Apple iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The Old Louisville App features over 600 original photographs and 400 architectural entries that include tags that are used to filter categories to view homes, walking tours, restaurants, B&Bs, annual events, etc. that can also be sorted by street numbers, or street names. Each entry has an original photograph, an interactive Google map, and a description that includes:
• Street address
• Name of property (if applicable)
• Year built
• Architectural style
• Original owner and profession (when available)
• Architect (when available)
• Brief description of architectural details
Individual entries in the App can easily be emailed to anyone.
Also Included
• Four suggested walking/driving tours with descriptions, navigational directions, and maps.
• 600 original photos depicting the architectural beauty of the area that can also be played in a slideshow.
• Descriptions of Victorian architectural styles, showing over thirty different examples.
• Annual Old Louisville events with dates and locations.
• Other historic places in the immediate area.
• One click for comments to the author, or share entry with others.
• Links to entrys’ business web sites.
• Approximate calculated distance from your location (A) to entry location (B), either walking or driving.
• Information useful to both residents and visitors of Historic Old Louisville.
The descriptions of Old Louisville Architectural Styles alone makes this App a valuable learning tool and handy reference for associating the names with the styles of Victorian era architecture. If you've lived here all your life or are just passing through town, if you love Old Louisville, or heritage destination tourism, you'll love this app! If this App does no more than to increase general awareness of Louisville architecture it will have accomplished one of its major objectives.
An iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 3.1 or later, and iTunes account, and an internet connection are required to download and use this App.
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Update The App
If you would like your Old Louisville home included in the next update, please send your home’s historic information here. Version 1.3, was released in the winter of 2012 and will feature many more properties and features. Updates are always free in the iTunes store once you own the App.
About The Author
Somebody had to do it.
A graphic designer and resident tour guide of Louisville, John Paul has focused his passion toward the promotion of Old Louisville since ’92 and has provided assistance to the Old Louisville Chamber of Commerce, the Old Louisville Neighborhood Council, and his own neighborhood association. In addition to much of the writing and editing of text he shot all of the original photography exclusively for this App.
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Collabrative credit is given to previous Old Louisville Tour Brochure Committees, previous Holiday House Tour homeowners, the Old Louisville Neighborhood Council and many others for their knowledge and contributions throughout the decades for their documentation for content that was compiled for this App and the updates.
This App was edited by johnpaul / design with publishing partners Sutro Media, San Francisco, California and became available the first week of December, 2010, the same week the Beatles catalog became available on iTunes.
Want to learn more? Download the 1884 Atlas of Louisville - Old Louisville (Plate 13) and Limerick (Plate 12) to see maps of what the neighborhood looked like when it was young. The Old Louisville Residential District was added by the National Park Service on 2/7/1975. View those application text and photos forms here.
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