Highlands-Douglass, Louisville

at , Louisville , 40205 United States

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Description

Highlands-Douglass is a neighborhood five miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The neighborhood is bound by Bardstown Road, Speed Avenue, Taylorsville Road, and Cherokee Park. It is considered a part of a larger area of Louisville called The Highlands. It is often simply called Douglass.HistoryPre-subdivisionThe area was originally part of a 200acre estate belonging to Mississippi plantation owner Stark Fielding. It was referred to as the "Woodbourne Estate." In 1870, the land was bought by then Western Union president George Douglass, for whom the area is named. The distinctive estate home still stands, located behind Douglass Boulevard Christian Church. The large white-columned Southern Colonial mansion was originally built by Fielding in the 1830s, and from the 1930s until 1949 was Rugby University School, an exclusive boy's preparatory school. The church has owned the house since 1949 and uses it for offices and meeting space.After George Douglass died, the land passed to his daughter. The area was subdivided and developed after the opening of Cherokee Park, to which the family donated several acres in exchange for the right to connect subdivisions to the park. Part of the Douglass donation included "Big Rock," one of the more popular spots in the park.Another antebellum home, Rose Hill, is found on Hampden Court a short distance from Bardstown Road. The imposing two-story Italianate mansion is distinguished by its central bell tower. Rose Hill was built in 1852 for Emory Low, a Louisville dry goods merchant born in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1808. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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Highlands-Douglass, Louisville is Louisville based place and this enity listed in Neighborhood category. 40205.