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Template:WP:WikiProject Louisville/Navigation This is the WikiProject Louisville Requested Articles department. On this page are potential articles (or subjects for articles) that WikiProject Louisville participants and Louisville enthusiasts (like you!?) have requested be created for the Wikipedia.

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Buildings and structures

• Cabbage Patch Settlement House
• Columbia Auditorium/Columbia Gym, where Martha Graham's Judith debuted, and where Muhammad Ali left his bike that was subsequently stolen (he later trained in the building's basement gym); now used as the Spalding University Center. Part of the North Old Louisville Multiple Resources area (NRHP). [1][2]
• Dosker Manor
• Heigold House – facade of historic home adorning the northern terminus of Frankfort Avenue at River Road as a monument in the roadway, standing as the gateway to the Clifton and Butchertown neighborhoods [3]
• Iceland Sports Complex (currently a redirect) – home arena to Louisville Cardinals ice hockey [4]
• Kentucky Home Life Building
• Lee Terminal
• Louisville Air National Guard Base (deleted April 2017 due to copyright infringement)
• Louisville Tennis Center (currently a redirect) – hosted major tennis tournaments in the 1970s
• Meidinger Tower
• Old Jail Building (Louisville, Kentucky) – former jail, over a century old; renovated and now houses government offices
• Old Kentucky State Fairgrounds, including the possibly still existing Merchants and Manufacturers Building, used by Whayne Supply [5]
• One Park, upcoming development in the Irish Hill neighborhood near Cherokee Park [6]
• Ouerbacker mansion
• Resthaven Memorial Park, Louisville, cemetery with multiple notable people buried there, including Pee Wee Reese; also create Category:Burials at Resthaven Memorial Park, Louisville.
• Waterfront Plaza
• Whitehall House & Gardens [7]

Defunct

• 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)
• Realty Building (was 10 floors at Jefferson and Armory; demolished)
• Rialto Theater (Louisville, Kentucky) – See also List of theatres in Louisville, Kentucky. Still a lot to do.
• Washington Building (Louisville, Kentucky) (was 15 floors at 4th and Market)

High schools

• Waggener Traditional High School

Culture and attractions

• Cuisine of Louisville, Kentucky
• Culture of Louisville, Kentucky (currently a redirect; overview of everything cultural in Louisville)
• LGBT culture in Louisville, Kentucky (several other US cities already have an article like this)
• St. Stephen Church (Louisville, Kentucky) [8]

Art (non-performing)

• All significant pieces of public art in Louisville (use this category: Category:Public art in Louisville, Kentucky)
• List of public art in... metro area counties in Kentucky and Indiana (one for Floyd County, Indiana already exists)
• Hite Art Institute
• Hometown Heroes (Louisville, Kentucky), a program that hangs banners of famous locals around town [9]

Events

Upcoming

• (empty)

Past and recurring

• Components of the Kentucky Derby Festival (currently redirects):
  • Derby Festival miniMarathon & Marathon [10]
  • Great BalloonFest [11]
  • Pegasus Parade [12] (Commons category)
• List of events at KFC Yum! Center (modeled on List of events at Freedom Hall)
• Asylum Haunted Scream Park [13]
• Jane Austen Festival [14]
• Bourbon & Beyond [15]
• Cherokee Triangle Art Fair [16]
• Corn Island Storytelling Festival (ran for 30 years; ended in 2007)
• Derby City Comic Con [17]
• Farmington Harvest Festival [18]
• Festival of Faiths [19]
• Garvin Gate Blues Festival [20]
• Gazebo Festival, rap/hip-hop festival created by Jack Harlow [21]
• Highland Renaissance Festival [22]
• IdeaFestival [23]
• Kentucky Art Car Weekend
• Kentucky Reggae Festival [24]
• Kentuckiana Pride Festival [25]
• Louisville UnFair (draft) - draft article needs rework to follow an encyclopedic format
• National FFA Organization Convention & Expo [26]
• Oktoberfest (Louisville, Kentucky)
• Poorcastle Festival, locals' answer to high ticket prices at Forecastle Festival [27]
• Spirit Ball [28]
• St. Joseph Orphans Picnic [29]
• Starlight Strawberry Festival [30]
• WorldFest (Louisville, Kentucky) [31]
• The World's Largest Halloween Party [32]

Museums

• The Bullitt County History Museum [33]
• Evan Williams Bourbon Experience [34]
• Heaven Hill Distilleries Bourbon Heritage Center [35]
• Henry County Historical Society [36]
• Historic Middletown Museum
• Jim Beam American Stillhouse [37]
• Kentucky Center for African American Heritage [38] — a museum with a very storied development
• Oldham County History Center [39]
• Schimpff's Candy Museum [40] (currently a redirect; a full article may not be necessary, but the Schimpff's article could have a section dedicated to the museum)

Parks and other outdoor attractions

• Bridges to the Past [41]
• Camp Carlson [42]
• Eva Bandman Park – Cyclo-cross venue and site of the 2013 World Championships [43]
• Garvin Brown Nature Preserve (private)
• Huber Orchard and Winery [44]
• Hurstbourne Country Club (draft) [45][46][47][48]
• Lakeside Swim Club [49]
• Louisville Champions Park
• Tioga Falls Hiking Trail [50]
• Waterfront Botanical Gardens [51]
• Waverly Park (Louisville, Kentucky) [52]

Shows and performing arts

• Ali (musical) – officially authorized musical about the life of Muhammad Ali [53][54]
• The Alley Theater (Louisville, Kentucky) – former local alternative theater [55]
• Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium [56]
• Headliners Music Hall [57]
• The Laughing Derby at Comedy Caravan [58]
• Little Colonel Players [59]
• Pandora Productions [60]
• StageOne Family Theatre [61]
• Theatre [502] [62]
• Theatre a la Carte – A short-lived (1970s) cafe with entertainers performing for children. – Notable?
• Voices of Kentuckiana [63]

Economy

• AAF International, formerly called American Air Filter (which should redirect) [64]
• Bluegrass Commerce Park (Jeffersontown; formerly known as the Bluegrass Research and Industrial Park)
• BlueOval SK Battery Park, coming to Glendale, Kentucky in 2025
• Caufield's Novelty
• James Graham Brown Cancer Center
• KentuckyOne Health (with redirects from Jewish Hospital (Louisville, Kentucky), Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare and other entities)
• Kingfish (restaurant chain) – long-time local chain of seafood restaurants
• Mike Linnig's – local seafood restaurant with a long history
• National Tobacco Company
• ResCare, Inc.
• Signature HealthCARE
• S.Y. Bancorp, holding company for Stock Yards Bank & Trust (should be a redirect)
• ZirMed

Geography

• Binkley's Cave (or Binkley Cave; near Corydon, Indiana; related to Indiana Caverns)
• Hills, ridges and rock formations – I think we're not even close to having these fully covered

Louisville neighborhoods

• Belmar, Louisville
• Paristown Pointe, Louisville
• Routt, Louisville (unincorporated place; previously had an article that was deleted)
• SoBro, Louisville – nestled between Old Louisville and downtown Louisville; contains Louisville Main Library, The 800 Apartments and Spalding University (including Columbia Gym/Columbia Auditorium) [65]

Government and politics

• Jefferson County Fiscal Court (Kentucky) (currently a redirect)
• Jefferson County, Kentucky Sheriff's Office
• List of federal and state legislators representing Louisville, Kentucky
• List of Louisville Aldermen (per Louisville Board of Aldermen; similar to List of members of the Louisville Metro Council)
• 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)
• Louisville Metro Landmarks Commission (more formally called the Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission)
• Operation Brightside
• Jim King (Kentucky politician) (President of the Louisville Metro Council for several years, died January 14, 2015)
• Individual Louisville Board of Aldermen and city council elections before merger

Mayoral elections

Notes:

• 2002 was the first Metro Mayor election, coinciding with the merger of Louisville with Jefferson County.
• In 1998, mayoral elections became aligned with midterm federal elections, making the previous term extend to about 5 years.
• Starting with the 1893 election, mayors had regular four-year terms.
• Prior to 1893, terms and elections were quite irregular (I hope I got those election years right).
• Prior to 1841, the city council elected the mayor.

History

• 1905 Louisville mayoral election – considered the most corrupt mayoral election in the city's history; see John Henry Whallen
  • Note: we could use articles on all of Louisville's mayoral elections
• 1980s Louisville airport expansion, including information on impact to surrounding neighborhoods (why we don't have Highland Park any longer)
• Civil rights movement in Louisville, Kentucky (similar to Civil rights movement in Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Desegregation of Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky)
• History of Louisville Cardinals football (seems to be plenty of material in Louisville Cardinals football for it)
• History of slavery in Louisville, Kentucky
• History of the Jews in Louisville, Kentucky (similar to History of the Jews in Cincinnati)
• Howard v. Commissioners of Sinking Fund of Louisville, 344 U.S. 624 (1953)
• Linn's Station (currently a redirect), a station erected along Beargrass Creek in 1779 by Maj. William Linn. Namesake for Linn Station Road.
• List of Kentucky state historical markers in Louisville, Kentucky (search the Kentucky Historical Marker Database)
  • Also for metro area counties in Kentucky (these already exist for such counties in Indiana)
• List of local landmarks and preservation districts in Louisville, Kentucky – ones designated by Louisville Metro here
• List of monuments in Louisville, Kentucky
• Louisville city-county merger (currently a redirect) – this could possibly be just a section added to Government of Louisville, Kentucky which currently doesn't even have a 'History' section.
  • Also for metro area counties in Kentucky and Indiana
• Newspapers/Publications: Louisville Commercial, Louisville Courier, Louisville Democrat, Louisville Examiner, Louisville Herald, Louisville Journal, The Louisville Times (original incarnation started in the mid-19th century), Louisville Post (Louisville Evening Post), Louisville Public Advertiser, New South, The Tobacconist (trade paper published by J. Finzer and Brothers Company). (Some of these are redirects at this time.)

Historical places and organizations

• Ballard & Ballard Mills (1880–1951) – Introduced the refrigerated biscuit. Sold out to Pillsbury.[66]
• Ben Snyder's – a major Louisville-based department store chain that was founded in 1913 and later sold to Hess's in 1987 with 8 locations (plus 5 more that was in the process of being converted to Ben Snyder) in 3 states. [67][68][69][70] (plus more reference listed on List of defunct department stores of the United States#Kentucky)
• Bourbon Stockyards
• Byck's (1902–1991) – a Louisville-based department store chain that started as Byck Brothers & Company; it was the first major downtown retailer to open a suburban location, and was part of the Louisville Galleria when it first opened
• Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Co. (1919–1987) – A Louisville-based bank that was the second largest bank in Kentucky which was acquired by PNC of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1987, parent company was Citizens Fidelity Corp.[71][72][73]
• Douglas Park Race Course
• Durrett High School (1960–81), its building eventually came to be used for Louisville Male High School. Famous alumni include jazz musician Don Braden ('81). [74]
• Ehrler's Dairy, started in 1867, became the largest independently owned dairy in Kentucky before it was sold in 1977 [75]. Operated many ice cream shops, with two still open under the Ehrler's name. Founded by Bremer Ehrler's grandfather Joseph Maria Ehrler.[76]
• First National Bank of Louisville (1863–1988) (currently a redirect) – A Louisville-based bank that was the largest bank in Kentucky until the prohibition against interstate banking was removed and was acquired by National City Bank of Cleveland, Ohio in 1988, parent company was First Kentucky National Corp.[77][78] Now a part of PNC.
• Hawley-Cooke Booksellers (1978–2003) – Was the largest independent bookstore in Louisville and possibly in several states before it was bought out by Borders in 2003. [79][80][81][82][83][84][85]
• House of Refuge, later named the Industrial School of Reform, founded in 1854 by the Kentucky Legislature as a result of a rise in juvenile delinquency. The house was founded to reform juveniles and give religious, moral, and educational instruction.
• Liberty National Bank (1913–1994) – A Louisville-based bank that was the third largest bank in Kentucky and was acquired by Bank One of Columbus, Ohio in 1994, parent company was Liberty National Bancorp.[86][87] Now a part of Chase Bank.
• Louisville Athletic Club, fielded a college football team in 1895, preceding the establishment of Louisville Cardinals football
• Louisville Jockey Club
• Oakland Race Course (1832 – mid-1850s), nationally prominent Louisville horse racing track that preceded Churchill Downs
• Paramount Foods, pickle product producer once featuring Phyllis Diller in advertisements
• St. Joseph's College (Kentucky), former college in Bardstown with many notable alumni (currently a redirect)
• In general, complete articles for redlinks (and in some cases, redirects) in:
  • List of National Historic Landmarks in Kentucky (esp. related to Louisville metro area)
  • National Register of Historic Places listings
    • Jefferson County
      • Anchorage
      • Downtown Louisville
      • The Highlands
      • Old Louisville
      • Portland
      • West End
    • Bullitt County
    • Henry County
    • Meade County
    • Nelson County
    • Oldham County
    • Shelby County
    • Spencer County
    • Trimble County
    • Clark County, Indiana
    • Floyd County, Indiana
    • Harrison County, Indiana
    • Washington County, Indiana

Infrastructure

Transportation

• Fourth Street (Louisville, Kentucky), historical retail corridor that has been redeveloped thrice (River City Mall, Galleria, Fourth Street Live!)
• Frankfort Avenue (currently a redirect), a street with similarities to Bardstown Road
• Template:Tl (or something like that)
• Spirit of Jefferson (Belle of Louisville's sister boat)

Route number	Local street name(s)
KY 1694	Brownsboro Road
KY 1699	Whipps Mill Road
KY 2843	Grade Lane
KY 2844	Hounz Lane
KY 3077	River Road, I-64 ramps
KY 3084	Old Henry Road

Media

• Louisville Business First – currently a redirect; re-establish as a separate article
• Insider Louisville – currently a redirect; defunct online local news site (former URL: [88])
• The News-Enterprise – newspaper of Elizabethtown, Kentucky

People

Groups

• Jefferson County Teachers Association (Kentucky)

Biographies of living persons

• The Barnstable twins, actresses Patricia and Priscilla "Cyb" Barnstable, who portrayed the Doublemint Twins in 1970s commercials, and appeared in the short-lived series Quark; hosts of the annual Barnstable Brown Derby Eve Gala in Louisville; daughters of UK basketball player Dale Barnstable
• JK McKnight, founder of the Forecastle Festival
• James Quick, wide receiver for the Washington Redskins, played for Louisville Cardinals football
• Mike Snyder, former Olympic Athlete and Trinity graduate
• Tom Wills (meteorologist), long-time meteorologist for WAVE, one of the first sealed television meteorologists in the country

Deceased

• John Asher (horse racing) (user draft) – radio journalist and Churchill Downs executive, considered an ambassador for both Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby [89]
• Bingham family – overview of famous Bingham family
• George Garvin Brown – founder of Brown–Forman
• Reverend Louis Coleman Jr. – outspoken and controversial social justice activist
• John Colgan (pharmacist) – inventor of flavored chewing gum
• Fritz Drybrough Sr. (Frederick W. Drybrough) – major local property owner and developer who built The 800 Apartments; he was already well known for such in 1944 per [90]
• Henry Clay Fry – entrepreneur in the glass industry, born in Shelby County (former article was removed due to copyright issues)
• David A. Jones Sr. (currently a redirect) – co-founder of Humana
• John Ed Pearce – longtime columnist for The Courier-Journal and later the Lexington Herald-Leader
• Wayne Perkey – longtime Louisville radio and TV personality
• Thomas Prather – 19th-century Louisville businessman and philanthropist; friend/partner of John J. Jacob
• Harvey Clarence Russell Sr. – Dean of Kentucky State College and president of West Kentucky Industrial College in Paducah; organized first state PTA and first state Inter-High School Athletic Association; served as president of the Kentucky Negro Educational Association; namesake for Louisville's Russell neighborhood, father of Harvey C. Russell Jr.
• Gene Schmidt – first track announcer for Churchill Downs, 1940–1960
• Speed family – overview of famous Speed family
• Tom Wallace (journalist) – editor of The Louisville Times, grandfather of Naomi Wallace, memorialized by Tom Wallace Recreation Area (including Tom Wallace Lake) in Jefferson Memorial Forest
  • Henry F. Wallace – full name Henry French Wallace, international journalist, father of Naomi Wallace

Sports

• 2026 Louisville Cardinals football team

Louisville Cardinals soccer teams

Men's soccer

• 2026 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team
• 2025 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team
• 2024 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team
• 2020 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team
• 2016 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team
• 2015 Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team
• 1979–2013 articles are also missing

Women's soccer

• 2026 Louisville Cardinals women's soccer team
• 2025 Louisville Cardinals women's soccer team
• 1985–2018 articles are also missing