page_title: List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area
section_title: Historic properties
hierarchical_section_title: List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area / Historic properties
caption_attribution_description: Photo of the Belle of Louisville.
context_page_description: This is a list of visitor attractions and annual events in the Louisville metropolitan area.
context_section_description: Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral (Bardstown), the first Roman Catholic cathedral west of the Appalachian Mountains
  Belle of Louisville, the oldest Mississippi-style steamboat in operation on the inland waterways of the U.S. (built 1914-1915 in Pittsburgh for service in Memphis as the Idlewild, renamed Avalon in 1948, purchased by Jefferson County and renamed Belle of Louisville in 1962)
  Bray Place, the land and 1796 home, now called the Bashford Manor Bed and Breakfast, one of the oldest houses in Kentucky
  The Brennan House
  Brown Hotel, where the Hot Brown was invented
  Cathedral of the Assumption
  Colgate Clock (Clarksville, Indiana), the fourth largest clock in the United States
  Colonial Gardens, a local landmark in the Kenwood Hill neighborhood, now undergoing redevelopment
  Conrad-Caldwell House
  Crescent Hill Reservoir
  Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site (New Albany, Indiana), most noted for its annual haunted house located in the mansion's carriage barn
  Farmington Historic Plantation, including the Thomas Jefferson-designed home of the Speed family, visited by Abraham Lincoln
  The Filson Historical Society, a historical society and research library housed in the Ferguson Mansion, a Beaux-Arts style mansion built in 1906
  Fort Duffield, a Civil War fort
  Fort Knox, including the U.S. Bullion Depository and General George Patton Museum of Leadership (Bullitt, Hardin and Meade Counties)
  Fort Nelson Park, located in the same spot as the second on-shore fort in Kentucky
  Historic Locust Grove farm, home of George Rogers Clark and site of the homecoming of Lewis and Clark
  Hogan's Fountain Pavilion, a large gazebo and picnic shelter of mid-century modern architecture located in Cherokee Park
  Little Loomhouse
  Louisville Stoneware, making pottery since 1815
  My Old Kentucky Home State Park (Bardstown), featuring the Federal Hill mansion (inspiration for Stephen Foster's My Old Kentucky Home) and Stephen Foster - The Musical 
  Peterson-Dumesnil House
  Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing
  Scribner House (New Albany, Indiana)
  Seelbach Hotel, the famous hotel written about by F. Scott Fitzgerald and frequently visited by Al Capone
  Spalding Hall (Bardstown)
  Thomas Edison House
  Union Station
  United States Marine Hospital of Louisville
  Vogue Theater, a movie theater in St. Matthews that closed in 1998, known for showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show for 25 years. Its sign is being refurbished as a historical landmark.
  Waverly Hills Sanatorium
  Whiskey Row, located in the first block of West Main Street, a collection of Revivalist and Chicago School-style buildings with cast-iron storefronts built between 1852 and 1905
  Whitehall House & Gardens
  Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum
caption: The Belle of Louisville still serves as the symbol of Louisville. She celebrated her 100th birthday in 2014.
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