- Louisville Glassworks
Infobox_nrhp | name =Snead Manufacturing Building
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caption =The outside of one of Louisville Glassworks studios in downtown Louisville
location=Louisville, KY
lat_degrees = 38 | lat_minutes = 15 | lat_seconds = 22.41 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 85 | long_minutes = 45 | long_seconds = 51.78 | long_direction = W
area =
built =1910
architect= Murphy D.X. & Brothers
architecture= No Style Listed
added =August 01 ,1978
governing_body = Private
refnum=78001367 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]The Louisville Glassworks is located in the West Main District of Downtown
Louisville, Kentucky and is a multi-use facility. There are three working glass studios, two glass galleries, and daily tours. [ [http://www.louisvilleglassworks.com/ Glassworks ] ] Lofty Living manages the building leases.History
From 1850 to 1901, at least seven different
glass factories operated in Louisville. Six were bottle houses, and the other did window and plate glass. In 1850 the Kentucky Glass Works was formed, which would later become Louisville Glassworks but at no time was either referred to as an actual company.http://www.blm.gov/historic_bottles/pdffiles/LouisvilleGlass1_Whitten.pdf] The firms' names since 1850 that bottled under the names of Kentucky Glassworks or Louisville Glassworks consisted of Taylor Stanger Ramsey & Company(1850, for a few months), Douglass & Taylor (1850-1855; listed as the "Douglass Glass Works" in an 1851 city directory), Douglass Rutherford & Company (1855-1856), Stanger Doyle & Co. (1856), Krack Stanger & Co. (1856-1864), J.A.Krack & Co. (1864 - Feb 1, 1866), Krack & Reed (Feb.1, 1866-1869), Krack Reed & Co. (1869-1871), and L.S. Reed & Brother (1871-1873). During the 19th century the glass companies in Louisville mainly purchased their sand from a business inElizabethtown, Kentucky . In 1896 Edwin Penna began operation of the Glassworks, and has gone under five generations of Penna ownership. [http://www.glassblower.info/louisville-glassworks/louisville-glassworks.html Glassblower.Info - Louisville Glassworks ] ] The Louisville Glassworks opened in 2001 with theArchitectural Glass studio fathering it, but still under ownership with Page von Roenn passed down from Kenneth F. von Roenn Jr which received ownership from Edwin Penna III. The Louisville Glassworks is currently under its fifth generation of ownership.The downtown location has historically been known as the Snead Manufacturing Building, and was put on the National Register in 1978. Snead was responsible for building many iron buildings around the country. After the old building burnt down, the architect was told to build a "first-class fireproof power building". [http://books.google.com/books?id=TziFKjYGBNcC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=snead+manufacturing+building&source=web&ots=XdMaJ95bzz&sig=ObQ5KqBym5yBKqpVugcVx6CKb08]
Other features at the Glassworks building
The Louisville Glassworks location also houses a
jazz club restaurant which offerstapas -style food, a salon on the 7th floor, and a luxury hotel. Loft Living also has an office inside the building.External links
* [http://www.louisvilleglassworks.com/ Louisville Glassworks website]
References
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