Historic Whiskey Row Facades in Louisville Connect To Urban Bourbon Hotel
Nineteen whiskey distillers, wholesalers and other liquor businesses called the 100 block of Louisville’s West Main Street home over the last two centuries.
Whiskey Row was known more for the business of warehousing barrels and loading and offloading them to barges on the nearby Ohio River than for the actual distilling of Kentucky Bourbon, but the block still was important enough to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. In July of 2015, though, three of those historic buildings burned to the ground, incinerating previous renovation plans with them. All that was left behind were the cast-iron, Chicago-style facades saved by 80 Louisville firefighters. Emergency crews propped them up with steel supports.