Cherokee Triangle, Louisville
Near Louisville, Kentucky
In eighteen sixty-nine, real estate partners James Henning and Josiah Speed bought one hundred twenty-five acres east of downtown Louisville and laid out the Highland Addition subdivision the following year. The first house, a wedding gift for Henning's daughter, went up at the corner of what is now Cherokee Road in eighteen seventy-one.
Growth halted when the Panic of eighteen seventy-three hit, then resumed as the neighborhood filled with Victorian and Edwardian homes through the turn of the century. Cave Hill Cemetery nearby and the arrival of electric streetcar lines drew prosperous families to the area. Today Cherokee Triangle is one of Louisville's best-preserved Victorian residential districts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and anchored by Cherokee Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.
