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Group Lists City's Most Endangered Historic Places

A Louisville group identified the city’s 10 most endangered historic places along with some positive news. WFPL’s Elizabeth Kramer has more.Preservation Louisville released the list today along with the city’s top 10 preservation successes. The group praises the renovation of the US Marine Hospital in the Portland neighborhood and Corbett’s, an eastern Louisville restaurant housed in a mansion that was part of a dairy farm.Both lists reference Louisville’s shotgun houses. The successes include Habitat for Humanity’s rehabilitation of such a house in the city’s west end and the endangered list includes all the city’s shotgun houses, says Preservation Louisville’s executive director Marianne Zickuhr."They’re a very big part of our heritage and our history," Zickuhr says. "And the fact of the matter is that they’re being torn down all over the city at a rapid pace."Zickuhr says Louisville has the most shotgun houses just after New Orleans and that this is the first time a local preservation group has released a list of successes."The successes are really a way for us to help the community understand that you can be a good steward to these buildings," she says, "and you can be a part of to helping to keep that historic fabric of our community intact."Also among Louisville’ 10 most endangered historic places are structures in Iron Quarter of West Main Street and historic buildings in the Water Company block, which is to be developed by the Cordish Company as Center City District. The company also built Fourth Street Live.Zickuhr says that preserving historical properties does not inhibit obstruct property development."It’s a protection," she says. "It’s something that will help the developers in the future to keep the property values going up because of the how important the historical significance of their property is."Zickuhr says developments like downtown's Henry Clay building are good examples. It houses apartments, a restaurant, a theater and offices.THE COMPLETE LIST FROM PRESERVATION LOUISVILLELouisvilles Top 10 Most Endangered Historic Places List Shotgun HousesWater Co. Block Historic BuildingsVictorian House on Frankfort AvenueHistoric FirehousesOld Dental School at Brook and BroadwayPark Hill districtCorner Store FrontsHistoric Properties within the Proposed New Bridge RouteIron QuarterOuerbacker HouseLouisvilles Top 10 Preservation Success US Marine HospitalWayside BuildingsVogt BuildingHenry ClayReynolds BuildingAmerican Standard1254 S. Brook St.Howard Hardy HouseCorbetts Restaurant1702 Prentice St. (Habitat for Humanity House)Criteria used to determine if a property is added to these lists: 1. On the National Register of Historic Places or be eligible2. Within the metro Louisville region (Jefferson County; Floyd and Clark counties of southern Indiana)3. For most endangered list - in imminent threat of demolition or in severely deteriorated conditionpreservationlouisville.org