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It’s been 84 days since our last Demo Watch roundup, where we recounted a troubling number of shotgun houses meeting the wrecking ball. Today’s Demo Watch is much the same, still dominated by shotgun houses, and properties in general west of Ninth Street. In all, there are 51 dwelling units (including one duplex) that have already been or are slated to be torn down in those 84 days, meaning Louisville loses a unit every 38 hours. And that’s not including these historic buildings in Downtown that also bit the dust.

The hardest hit neighborhood is Russell, where 12 houses are slated for demolition. The Chickasaw and Park Hill neighborhoods are not far behind. Following in line with Taylor Shelton’s article about vacant properties in the West End, mapping the location of these 50 structures reveals a similar pattern as the city’s vacant property heatmap—and, indeed, most of these Demo Watch properties were abandoned, many with deceased owners.

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Among the properties listed for demolition is a log cabin in southern Louisville’s Heritage Creek neighborhood (formerly Minor Lane Heights) that sits on the former site of Trinity Pentecostal Tabernacle on South Park Road. That site is being cleared by the Louisville Regional Airport Authority for its Renaissance South Business Park. A listing for the 5.5-acre property doesn’t say much about the cabin other than that it contains “a log cabin (which can be removed).” Another set of three houses set on large, grassy lots on Bardstown Road in Buechel are going to be razed for a mini-storage facility.

As usual, many of these properties have reached the “point of no return” and are not salvageable, but it’s important to see just how much of Louisville’s urban fabric is disappearing before our eyes. We’re not advocating that all of these buildings be saved, just that we see the changing face of the city.

Preservation Louisville also counts these properties on its social media platforms as “intent to demolish” notices are announced as part of its “#TearDownTuesday” campaign. You can follow the group on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

And if you’d like to get involved in stopping a demolition, reviving a vacant property, or just be more active in preservation? Marianne Zickuhr, director of Preservation Louisville, wrote Broken Sidewalk from a preservation conference in Utah to tell us how.

We have been telling people to get in touch with Jeana Dunlap and her staff at Metro VAP. We have been trying to educate people and let them know that not all of our #TearDownTuesdays are Metro owned and some have weird back stories, like absentee owners out of the city, owned by a bank, or the owner is deceased. Many folks don’t know that this many demos are happening all the time. It’s a real epidemic for our housing stock and that’s why I started the campaign on social media. Many people thought Preservation Louisville only cares about things like Whiskey Row, and that we are always causing an uproar about some building, but I find they have no idea how many buildings are getting demolished and how few I even have the chance to try and save.

Take a look at the full roster of demolitions below, organized by neighborhood.

412 South 27th Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: John A. Sweatt

Demolition can take place after: May 3, 2015

540 South 17th Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: Constance E. Jackson

Demolition can take place after: June 15, 2015

1824 West Jefferson Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: William Rose

Demolition can take place after: June 15, 2015

1942 West Chestnut Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: Terry L. Readus

Demolition can take place after: June 15, 2015

1920 Pirtle Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: Dennis & Denise Bouvier

Demolition can take place after: June 15, 2015

2030 West Market Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: Shirley Catlett

Demolition can take place after: May 20, 2015

2725 West Chestnut Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: Ernest D. Gober, Jr.

Demolition can take place after: May 20, 2015

426–428 South 28th Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: Dollie Mae Hamilton; Nelson Toney III

Demolition can take place after: June 4, 2015

1933 Magazine Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: William Miller (Deceased)

Demolition can take place after: June 3, 2015

527 South 27th Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: Elizabeth Jessup (Deceased)

Demolition can take place after: June 15, 2015

2417 Cedar Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: Jocque Q. Thaxton

Demolition can take place after: May 3, 2015

409 South 28th Street

Neighborhood: Russell

Owner: Marguerite Harris (Deceased)

Demolition can take place after: April 24, 2015

611 North 17th Street

Neighborhood: Portland

Owner: Jay Chestnut

Demolition can take place after: June 20, 2015

2521 St. Cecilia Street

Neighborhood: Portland

Owner: Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville

Demolition can take place after: April 16, 2015

2745 West Main Street

Neighborhood: Portland

Owner: Kevin Goodlett

Demolition can take place after: April 30, 2015

1621 Bank Street

Neighborhood: Portland

Owner: Theretha R. Vincent (Deceased)

Demolition can take place after: April 17, 2015

916 Cecil Avenue

Neighborhood: Chickasaw

Owner: Household Finance Corp II

Demolition can take place after: April 30, 2015

819 Dearborn Avenue

Neighborhood: Chickasaw

Owner: James & Elnora Moore

Demolition can take place after: May 7, 2015

4153 Hale Avenue

Neighborhood: Chickasaw

Owner: Stonecrest Investments

Demolition can take place after: April 17, 2015

813 South 38th Street

Neighborhood: Chickasaw

Owner: Angela Story

Demolition can take place after: June 15, 2015

3329 Garland Avenue

Neighborhood: Chickasaw

Owner: Frank G. Wilson, Sr.

Demolition can take place after: June 15, 2015

821 South 33rd Street

Neighborhood: Chickasaw

Owner: James N. Unseld (Deceased)

Demolition can take place after: April 17, 2015

303 South 38th Street

Neighborhood: Shawnee

Owner: Reena Stevenson

Demolition can take place after: June 20, 2015

670 South 35th Street

Neighborhood: Shawnee

Owner: Derrick D. & Catherine Smith

Demolition can take place after: May 20, 2015

2632 Hale Avenue

Neighborhood: California

Owner: James Kirkland Batson

Demolition can take place after: June 15, 2015

1828 West Ormsby Avenue

Neighborhood: California

Owner: JTC LLC

Demolition can take place after: May 20, 2015

1619 & 1629 West Ormsby Avenue

Neighborhood: Park Hill

Owner: Georgia Alvis (Deceased); Aaron M. Elliott

Demolition can take place after: May 3, 2015

1722 West Ormsby Avenue

Neighborhood: Park Hill

Owner: Theron & Tamar Poole

Demolition can take place after: May 20, 2015

1776 Dumesnil Street

Neighborhood: Park Hill

Owner: John W. Young

Demolition can take place after: May 3, 2015

1310–1312 Baldwin Street

Neighborhood: Park Hill

Owner: Fannie W. Purvis (Deceased)

Demolition can take place after: May 3, 2015

1812 Bolling Avenue

Neighborhood: Park Hill

Owner: Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church

Demolition can take place after: April 24, 2015

1616 Hale Avenue

Neighborhood: Park Hill

Owner: Anissa Butler

Demolition can take place after: June 3, 2015

1750 Dumesnil Street

Neighborhood: Park Hill

Owner: 1750 Dumesnil Street Land Trust

Demolition can take place after: June 3, 2015

1547 Gallagher Street

Neighborhood: Park Hill

Owner: Jubilee Christianity Outreach

Demolition can take place after: June 15, 2015

1105 Logan Street

Neighborhood: Shelby Park

Owner: Anna & Richie Westmoreland

Demolition can take place after: April 12, 2015

1045 South Jackson Street

Neighborhood: Shelby Park

Owner: James Earl Goff, Jr.

Demolition can take place after: April 12, 2015

749 South Clay Street

Neighborhood: Smoketown

Owner: Doris Manion

Demolition can take place after: June 15, 2015

823 East Chestnut Street

Neighborhood: Phoenix Hill

Owner: Bobby Frank Cagle

Demolition can take place after: June 3, 2015

2518 South Fourth Street

Neighborhood: South Louisville

Owner: Ark Land Trust

Demolition can take place after: May 3, 2015

2500 South Park Road

Neighborhood: Heritage Creek

Owner: Louisville Regional Airport Authority

Demolition can take place after: May 1, 2015

3818–3824 Bardstown Road

Neighborhood: Buechel

Owner: Self Storage of Kentuckiana

Demolition can take place after: June 4, 2015

6317 River Road

Neighborhood: Prospect

Owner: Mary Lang Properties

Demolition can take place after: June 4, 2015

1521 Berry Boulevard

Neighborhood: Taylor Berry

Owner: Knights Athletic Club

Demolition can take place after: July 2, 2015

4201 Bramers Lane

Neighborhood: Southwest Louisville

Owner: John Earl Hartlage

Demolition can take place after: May 27, 2015

200 East Southland Boulevard

Neighborhood: Southside

Owner: Underhill Associates

Demolition can take place after: June 21, 2015

1309 Cleo Avenue

Neighborhood: Lynnview

Owner: Millie Hudson (Deceased)

Demolition can take place after: April 17, 2015

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