Luckett and Farley is the oldest architecture firm in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and is tied with another firm as being the oldest continuously operating firm in the United States. Luckett and Farley was founded in 1853 and our existence today is certainly not by accident.

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Driving down Louisville streets like Main, Market, or Broadway you could be passing by a Henry Whitestone or D.X. Murphy & Bro building and not even know it. With years of records and drawings archived it's difficult to fully comprehend our history. We developed this map outlining the locations of our firm’s early work in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Whiskey Row | Louisville, Kentucky | Architects include Henry Whitestone | Whiskey Row is a historic row of attached buildings built approximately between 1852 and 1905.
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Waverly Hills Sanatorium | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1910

galt-house
Galt House Hotel | Louisville, Kentucky | Henry Whitestone | 1869
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Louisville Glassworks | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1910

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The Bourbon Stockyards Exchange Building | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy | 1914
clock-tower
Louisville Public Warehouse | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brothers | 1889
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Presentation Academy | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1893

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L & N Railroad Building | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1907
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Churchill Downs Finish Line and Call to Post | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1937 and 1947
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Churchill Downs Paddock | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1902
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Churchill Downs Grand Stand | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1894
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Churchill Downs Jockey Club | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1906
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Saint Louis Cemetery | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1831
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St. Boniface Catholic Church | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1899
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St. Cecilia's | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Bros. | Founded in 1873 to serve the immigrant Irish in the Portland area of Louisville
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St. John's United Church of Christ | D.X. Murphy | 1854
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Cathedral of Assumption | Isaiah Rogers | 1852

Mapping Luckett & Farley's Louisville Legacy


This map is a work in progress, we will be adding more information as it's discovered.




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