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bit the 415 E. Market St. z betting window The Bacon-DeBrovy Building is being renovated by Falls City Lofts, a partnership of mve local investors who are spending $2.5 million to turn the antebellum structure into 18 loft condos. If you've driven by, you've seen construction workers carving windows and doors into the east side of the cast-iron and limestone building, as well as adding a fourth story to the rear portion. Expect killer views of the river from the north side. The investors bought the property in 2011 for $675,000 from BB&T.; Before that… BUILDING BLOODLINE What are the odds you'll like these February happenings? 1:1 Teddy Heisman Upside: That's what we're calling 3:1 Jim James' solo album Upside: On Regions of Light and Downside: Think we're gonna Sound of God, out Feb. 5, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James plays all of the instruments. "Know Til Now," the Àrst single, will make you dance. (Odds the album winds up in the Nachbar's jukebox? 1:1.) start calling him Jimmy Grammy. 4:1 The Who Upside: The over/under on Pete Downside: The over/under on (Feb. 16 at the Yum! Center) Townshend arm windmills is 70. Pete Townshend's age is 70. (We didn't look it up and are going with the over.) 9:2 Spirits of the Passage Upside: Artifacts from a sunken slave Downside: Too intense? ship, iron shackles included. Seinfeld's at the Palace on Feb. 21, and Locust Grove has some dollhouses on display. (Feb. 2-June 16 at the Frazier History Museum) 6:1 Cyclocross Upside: On Feb. 2 and 3, Eva Bandman 7:1 The Graduate Upside: That great pool scene. (Feb. 7-17 at the Kentucky Center) 12 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 2.13 Downside: Did we just jinx him? him from now on. Park will host the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, the Àrst time the event will happen outside Europe in six decades. In English: Cyclo-cross is a bicycle race over a course of different terrains. Obstacles, too! Big deal in Belgium. Downside: Pretty cold out there. Downside: Wait, how is the Kentucky Center going to install an in-ground pool in the MeX Theater? — Josh Moss • Circa 1994 The building empties as the last tenant, DeBrovy's Tarps, relocates to Seventh Street. The property appraises for $125,630. • 1962 What is at this point Greene Furniture Carpets & Stoves sells to Hyman DeBrovy & Sons, a manufacturer of truck tarpaulins. Three years later, the building appraises for $24,537. • 1903 James Greene buys the property for between $25,000 and $30,000 and operates it as Greene Furniture. • 1903 The Bacon family sells its department-store business to H.B. Clanin, who then passes it on to Mercantile Stores of Ohio in 1914. The Bacon's name survives until Dillard's buys Mercantile in 1998. • 1877 Expanded home to Bacon's Dry Goods, aka Bacon & Sons or Bacon's. Business is good enough to have Joseph & Joseph Architects sketch a skyscraper for a new Bacon's headquarters at 330-334 W. Market St. The structure is never built. • Built circa 1844 Most likely. When Jeremiah Bacon opens what will become Louisville's mrst department store, it's believed he does so at this location in 1844. Appraisals by the Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator list construction dates for the Italianate structure as either 1885 or 1890. And a 2010 archeological survey by the city dates the building to 1863. Consensus: It's old. — Kane Webb Sources: Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator; Business First; 2010 Archeological Survey for the Dept. of Planning and Design Services; The Encyclopedia of Louisville.