1972 Galt House Hotel, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY Vintage Postcard UNP
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1972 Galt House Hotel, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY Vintage Postcard UNP. GALT HOUSE Fourth and River, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY 40202. GALT HOUSE Fourth and River, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY 40202 Overlooking the beautiful Belvedere Plaza, the elegant Galt House boasts 714 Rooms, 3 distinctively "different" Restaurants, 2 Cocktail Lounges, 24 Banquet-Meeting Rooms, and exciting entertainment. Experience the Galt House, Louisville's Luxurious Riverfront Hotel. Published by Editorial Services Company, 445 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, KY 40204 dp MADE BY DEXTER PRESS WEST NYACK, NEW YORK .... The Galt House Hotel is a 25-story, 1,310-room hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, established in 1972. It is named for two consecutive nearby historic hotels, both named Galt House, erected in 1835 and 1869; the first was destroyed by fire in 1865, and the second, demolished in 1921. The Galt House is the city's only hotel on the Ohio River. The namesake for the Galt House was, in the early 19th century, the residence of Dr. William Craig Galt. The house was located at the corner of Second and Main Street. In 1835, the first Galt House, a 60-room hotel constructed on land purchased from Galt at the northeast corner of Second and Main, was opened by Colonel Ariss Throckmorton. During the nineteenth century, the Galt House was acclaimed as Louisville's finest hotel. Located on the Indiana border, Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the historical county seat of Jefferson County. Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. With the nearby Falls of the Ohio as the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system across 13 states. Jefferson County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is the most populous county in the Kentucky commonwealth. Since a city-county merger in 2003, the county's territory, population and government have been coextensive with the city of Louisville, which also serves as county seat. Jefferson County—originally Jefferson County, Virginia—was established by the Virginia General Assembly in June 1780, when it abolished and partitioned Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln. Named for Thomas Jefferson, who was governor of Virginia at the time, it was one of Kentucky's nine original counties on June 1, 1792.
