Crescent Hill
Crescent Hill is a neighborhood four miles east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky USA. This area was originally called "Beargrass" because it sits on a ridge between two forks of Beargrass Creek.Photo: Angry Aspie, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Library
- Description: human settlement in Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
- Also known as: “Crescent Hill Branch Library Louisville Free Public Library” and “Crescent Hill, Louisville”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Louisville Free Public Library, Crescent Hill Branch and Louisville Academy of Music.
Louisville Free Public Library, Crescent Hill Branch
Library
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The Crescent Hill Branch Library, constructed in 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, was one of the first of nine Carnegie-endowed libraries built in Louisville, and is a branch of the Louisville Free Public Library.
Louisville Academy of Music
School
The Louisville Academy of Music is a non-profit community music school in Louisville, Kentucky in the Crescent Hill neighborhood. Founded in 1954 by Robert French and Donald Murray, the academy has given over a million music lessons.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Church
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St. Mark's Episcopal Church is located in the Crescent Hill historic district, on Frankfort Avenue which began as Louisville and Lexington turnpike in the 1850s. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church is situated 490 feet east of Crescent Hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cherokee Gardens and Clifton.
Cherokee Gardens
Hamlet
Cherokee Gardens is a residential area six miles east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, US. The area is a collection of small, unconnected subdivisions along Lexington Road and large estates built just outside Cherokee Park.
Clifton
Hamlet
Photo: Angry Aspie, CC BY 3.0.
Clifton is a neighborhood east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, US. Clifton was named because of its hilly location on the Ohio River valley escarpment. Clifton is bounded by I-64, N Ewing Ave, Brownsboro Road, and Mellwood Ave.
Mockingbird Valley
Village
Mockingbird Valley is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. Since incorporation, there has been some interest in making it a historic preservation district, largely to prevent unwanted development.
Crescent Hill
- Categories: neighborhood, historic district, and education
- Location: Jefferson, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
“Crescent Hill” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Crescent Hill”
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