Louisville Magazine

JUL 2013

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bit the BUILDING BLOODLINE The old American Standard Building (now a parking deck for The Bellamy) Seventh Street and Shipp Avenue 2012 The Louisville Cardinal names the American Standard Building-turned-Bellamy garage one of the "six spookiest spots in Louisville," noting that "despite any evidence of paranormal activity … Bellamy visitors and residents alike are unable to deny its inherent creepiness." Come to Napa River Grill for dinner tonight and enjoy one of our delicious summertime favorites! Our outdoor dining area is now open! Join us for wine, food and sun soon! (502) 423-5822 Westport Village | 1211 Herr Lane www.NapaRiverLouisville.com www.napariverlouisville.com Follow us on Facebook! 2009 The building and surrounding acreage formerly owned by American Standard is transformed by Phenix Investment Associates of Georgia into The Bellamy student housing for the University of Louisville. The building itself is renovated into a parking deck for Bellamy residents with potential for retail on the ground foor. 2008 The Louisville Ghost Hunters Society investigates the vacant building for alleged paranormal activity. The building even merits a mention in the Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. The presence of ghoulies remains unconfrmed. 2007 Threatened with demolition, the American Standard Building is placed on Preservation Louisville's Top 10 Most Endangered Historic Places list and, eventually, saved. 1992 American Standard, losing market share and trying to eliminate manufacturing redundancies, closes its operations in Louisville. 1967 The company changes its name to American Standard and continues to be a major employer in Louisville, where it has 5,600 workers. 1929 Standard Sanitary merges with the American Radiator Co. to become the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp., with major offces in Pittsburgh, New York and at the corner of Shipp Avenue and Seventh Street in Louisville. c. 1900 A four-story factory for what is then Standard Manufacturing Co. is built in the Park Hill District, once home to the majority of manufacturing and industrial plants in the city. Constructed of red bricks in the Beaux-Arts style, the factory anchors the Louisville home of what would become a worldwide plumbing-fxture giant. 1858 In search of work, George Andreas Theodor Ahrens moves his family from Baltimore to Louisville, where he opens a brass-molding shop on East Market Street. Broadening his business to include plumbing and pipe-ftting, Ahrens's little start-up, through a series of mergers, ultimately becomes the American Standard Co. — Kane Webb www.visitbloomington.com 22 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 7.13 Sources: The Encyclopedia of Louisville, Brokensidewalk.com, the Courier-Journal, Preservation Louisville and the Louisville Ghost Hunters Society.

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