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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This got us thinking, 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 comprehend our history. We developed this map outlining the locations of our firm’s early work in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Whiskey Row | Louisville, Kentucky | Architects include Henry Whitestone | Whiskey Row is a historic row of attached buildings built approximately between 1852 and 1905.

Waverly Hills Sanatorium | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1910

Galt House Hotel | Louisville, Kentucky | Henry Whitestone | 1869

Louisville Glassworks | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1910

The Bourbon Stockyards Exchange Building | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy | 1914

Louisville Public Warehouse | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brothers | 1889

Presentation Academy | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1893

L & N Railroad Building | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1907

Churchill Downs Finish Line and Call to Post | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1937 and 1947

Churchill Downs Paddock | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1902

Churchill Downs Grand Stand | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1894

Churchill Downs Jockey Club | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1906

Saint Louis Cemetery | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1831

St. Boniface Catholic Church | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Brother | 1899

St. Cecilia's | Louisville, Kentucky | D.X. Murphy & Bros. | Founded in 1873 to serve the immigrant Irish in the Portland area of Louisville

St. John's United Church of Christ | D.X. Murphy | 1854

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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