Louisville, Italy
The Kenyon Building was the first skyscraper in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Standing six stories tall, the building was located on Fifth Street, between Main and Market Streets. The building was razed in 1974 and would eventually become the site of a much taller skyscraper, the Humana Build
ing. It was designed in the Chicago school style with Richardsonian Romanesque elements by architect Mason Maury for the Kentucky Conference of The Methodist Episcopal Church. "I made all the plans for the Kenyon building with my own hands. No other architect, here or elsewhere, had anything whatever to do with them. Nother architect was consulted even. The only man who was consulted was Mr. Henning, whose enterprise erected the building. I made all the drawings and superintended the construction. When Mr. Henning proposed putting up the Kenyon, I suggested that we take a trip together, and see what they were doing in other cities. We visited several cities, New York and Chicago among them, and looked at their houses, but I made no drawings on this trip, and the building is not designed after anything we saw. It is entirely original in its plan. I suppose that the impression that I did not...
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