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The Old Louisville historic district, located in Kentucky, boasts the largest concentration of Victorian-Style buildings (and homes with stained glass windows) in the United States. Those styles include the Romanesque, Queen Anne, and Italiante. The district covers 48 city blocks and is located south of Louisville main business district, and north of the city’s largest college campus, the University of Louisville. Construction in the area began in the 1870’s and while its called Old Louisville, its actually younger than other parts of the city, which itself dates to 1780. The most famous part of Old Louisville is focused around St. James Court and Belgravia Court, but the distinct buildings the area is known for extended across multiple streets, including 1st to 6th streets, and Mangnolia to Hill Street.

Romanesque buildings are often built with thick walls, round arches, sturdy piers, groin vaults, large towers, and decorative arcades.

Italiante homes tend to haev low-piched or flat roofs, a symmetrical retangural shape that is multiple stories high, wide, overhanging eaves with large brackets and cornices, square cupolas, and balustrated balconies

Queen Anne style homes are often have an asymmetrical front facade, with a large porch, and decorative wood trim. The roofs are steep with cross gables or large dormers. And the houses tend to feature a round or polygonal front corner tower with a conical roof.

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The Tell City Chair Co, was a well known, high quality manufacturer of wooden chairs that existed for 146 years, from 1865, until 2011. In 1962, during the Kennedy administration, more than 400 chairs were ordered from the company by the White House, after an example of their chairs was seen at Saks Fifth Avenue, in New York.

Tell City, named after William Tell, and built by Swiss immigrants from Cincinnati, sits on the banks of the Ohio River on the border of Indiana and Kentucky. It was founded in 1858.