City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 144 North Sixth St.
17. St. Martin Of Tours Church
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 639 South Shelby St.
Description: St. Martin of Tours is the only church in the Louisville metro area that keeps its doors open to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Although this is specifically “for the adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament,” guards welcome respectful tourists who wish to enter and enjoy the craftsmanship of the German immigrants who constructed it in 1853, and then later enlarged it in 1861. Apart from the impressive pipe organ, Stations of the Cross, and windows of stained glass—all made in Germany—the interior is home to the full skeletal relics of two early Christian martyrs, Magnus and Bonosa, who are housed in glass reliquaries under the two side altars.
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 500 South Fourth St.
19. Thomas Edison House
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (502) 585-5247
Address: 729 East Washington St.
Description: Thomas Edison came to Louisville in 1866, at the young age of 19, to work as a telegraph key operator. He landed a job with the Western Union office on Second and West Main Streets. During his year as a telegrapher in Louisville, Edison became fascinated with improving the telegraph, and today, the small shotgun structure he occupied in the Butchertown neighborhood has a display that commemorates his time in Kentucky. Some of the interesting artifacts found at the museum include both cylinder and disc phonographs, as well as Edison business phonographs, and an Edison kinetoscope, the first home movie projector. Tickets for adults cost $5, and the hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m to 2 p.m.
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 1402 St. James Court
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 1244 South Third St.
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 1310 South Third St.
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 1310 South Third St.
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 1000 South Fourth St.
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 108 West Brandeis Ave.
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 851 South Fourth St.
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 2035 South Third St.
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 701 Baxter Ave.
29. Farmington Historic Plantation
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (502) 452-9920
Address: 3033 Bardstown Rd.
Description: Built between 1815 and 1816 for John and Lucy Fry Speed, both of whom came from wealthy Virginia families that moved to Kentucky in the late 1700s, Farmington is one of three historic home museums operated by Louisville’s Historic Homes Foundation. The primary cash crop at Farmington, hemp, was used to make rope and rough bagging for the cotton trade, and the museum strives to show visitors a slice of life as it would have been lived by a gentleman farmer in early Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln, a close friend of Joshua Speed, spent time here in 1841. Open for tours ($9) Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
30. Jeffersontown Historical Museum
City: Louisville, KY
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (502) 261-8290
Address: 10635 Watterson Trail
Description: Open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Jeffersontown Historical Museum is located at the rear of the Jeffersontown branch of the Louisville Free Public Library. A modest space features exhibits and artifacts shedding light on the town’s past, and on display is one of the largest doll collections in the Midwest. The Dolls of the World collection has 1,250 costumed dolls representing the dress and culture of peoples from across the globe.