Louisville Magazine

JUN 2017

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nortoncancerinstitute.com 82 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 6.17 Kentucky WiseWood 1535 Lytle St. // 550-7635 kentuckywisewood.com Think of it as a salvage company for used wood — the way they used to make it. Savemore Ace Hardware 2610 W. Market St. // 774-1339 A full-service hardware store, Savemore specializes in hard-to-find plumbing supplies and repairs lawn mowers, screens and windows. One of the few places in west Louisville to carry lumber: two-bys, one-bys and plywood. Zeller's Hardware Store 1452 Dixie Hwy. // 776-6861 The third generation of Zellers, Joe and Jim, are running this old-line neighborhood hardware store that specializes in small-engine repairs and tool rentals, along with the usual nuts and bolts and plumbing supplies. It's worth going in just for the old-hardware-store aroma. ATTRACTIONS Algonquin Park 1614 Cypress St. // 456-8100 louisvilleky.gov/metroparks One of Louisville's famed Olmsted- designed parks, this 16-acre city park features a swimming pool, sprayground, tennis courts and a quarter-mile walking path. Chickasaw Park 1200 Southwestern Pkwy. // Before the city parks were integrated in 1954, Chickasaw was the only Olmsted park in town that was open to black residents. Today it has the distinction of having the only remaining clay tennis courts (there are six) in the Metro Parks system. Kentucky Center for African American Heritage 1701 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd. // 583-4100 kcaah.org This west Louisville landmark, which used to be the city's streetcar trolley barn, was painstakingly restored several years ago. It's current major exhibit is "A Salute to Muhammad Ali," which runs through the end of 2017. The exhibit features iconic photographs and paintings of Ali. The center is also available for rental and holds many events during the year. Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. 120 N. 10th St. // 566-4999 kentuckypeerless.com The first batch of Kentucky Peerless Rye Whiskey was delivered in spring 2017 (you'll have to wait until 2020 for the bourbon, which is still aging) and you can tour their distillery and learn how they make the stuff. McAlpine Locks & Dam 805 N. 27th St. // Take a self-guided tour of the McAlpine Locks and Dam, operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where some 8.5 million tons of coal, petroleum, ore, grains, chemicals and metals pass through each year on their journeys up and down the Ohio. The site includes a visitors center, explanatory kiosks and a fishing area known as the "Angler's Pass." Muhammad Ali Boyhood Home 3302 Grand Ave. // The small, pink wood-frame house that was the childhood home of the boy who was then known as Cassius Clay was restored in 2016 to near original condition and is now a museum. Portland Museum 2308 Portland Ave. // 776-7678 goportland.org The Portland Museum explores Louisville's and Portland's river heritage through dioramas, documentaries, portraits of local residents by naturalist John James Audubon, and life-sized mannequins of tavern keeper and "Kentucky Giant" Jim Porter and female steamboat captain Mary Miller. Check website for special exhibits. Shawnee Park 4501 W. Broadway // 456-8100 louisvilleky.gov/metroparks/parks/ shawnee One of Louisville's esteemed Olmsted parks, an 18-hole public golf course is its most-used attraction. A major construction and renovation project in the non- golf-course area of the park began in early 2017 and is expected to be completed in 2019. The renovated park will get new landscaping, an open-air pavilion and other improvements. U.S. Marine Hospital 2215 Portland Ave. // marinehospital.org Designed by architect Robert Mills, this 1847 federal hospital for boatmen is the only survivor of seven "western" facilities originally built by the Marine Hospital Service and is one of the best examples of a pre-Civil War hospital in America and a National Historic Landmark. Currently houses a family-health clinic. Photo by Terrence Humphrey

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