Smoketown, Louisville
Smoketown Historic District | |
Logan Street in Smoketown | |
| Location | Roughly bounded by Preston, Caldwell, and Jacob Sts., and the alley east of Shelby St., Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 38°14′27″N 85°44′38″W / 38.24083°N 85.74389°W |
| Area | 780 acres (3.2 km2) |
| Architectural style | Shotgun house |
| NRHP reference No. | 97000661 |
| Added to NRHP | 1997 |
Smoketown is a neighborhood one mile (1.6 km) southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. A historically black neighborhood since the Civil War, it is the only neighborhood in the city that has had such a continuous presence. Smoketown is bounded by Broadway, CSX railroad tracks, Kentucky Street, and I-65.