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Enjoy a narrated stroll through America's Grandest Victorian Neighborhood! As recommended by The New York Times!

Relive the past on one of our award-winning tours of Old Louisville - America's Grandest Victorian Neighborhood!

25/07/2025

23/07/2025

I’ll be at doing palm readings this Saturday from 1-5. Late if I’m busy! Come out for some good brew and some affirmations.

21/07/2025

Stop by the Old Louisville Brewery and order a Glitter Ball fizz to relieve some of this summer’s heat!

And…If you sign up for a behind-the-scenes tour with author David Dominé to learn more about A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City it’s included in the ticket price!

21/07/2025

21/07/2025

Louisville in the 1920s brimmed with energy and optimism. The horrors of the Great War were receding, and the economy, building projects, and the city boundaries all expanded. In 1922, nearly 12 s…

20/07/2025

Someone is giving the Pink Palace in a run for their money…

20/07/2025

There’s still room on today’s 5pm Glitter Ball City tour with David Dominé, the Bluegrass Peasant departing Old Louisville Brewery at 625 West Magnolia Avenue!

19/07/2025

The Wooldridge Monuments, also known as "The Strange Procession That Never Moves," stand at the Maplewood Cemetery in Mayfield, Kentucky. See link below ⬇️ bit.ly/40quznA

19/07/2025

David Dominé still has several spots on today's 5PM walking tour highlighting locations in his popular true-crime memoir A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City departing Old Louisville Brewery at 625 West Magnolia Avenue! Get tickets while you can because when he shares an exciting bit of news soon, tours will fill up fast!

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18/07/2025

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Recommended by The New York Times! Guided Walks of a Grand Victorian Neighborhood...

Relive the past on one of our award-winning tours of Old Louisville - America's Grandest Victorian Neighborhood!

We offer the original Old Louisville walking tour! Recommended by The New York Times!

Since 2004, Louisville Historic Tours has been offering fascinating and informative walking tours of Old Louisville, America's Grandest Victorian Neighborhood – so make sure to plan a visit to this stunning historic preservation district the next time you're in Louisville, Kentucky. With well over a thousand historic structures spread out over some 40 square blocks, this is the place for people who love old houses and Victorian charm. Let Louisville Historic Tours show you why this neighborhood directly south of the downtown area has been billed as the "next Savannah or Charleston" of the United States.

Currently, we have daytime walking tours that highlight the history and architecture of Old Louisville and a very popular evening ghost walk designed to show you the spookier side of the neighborhood. Read on to find out more:

the "America's Most Haunted Neighborhood" tour

The most haunted neighborhood in America? That’s what many are calling Old Louisville, an extensive preservation district filled with old mansions and strikingly beautiful homes in Kentucky’s largest city. Wherever you go in this eye-popping neighborhood, it seems that a haunted house is not far away. Or a haunted church, a haunted street corner, or a haunted park. Over the last two decades, so many stories of supernatural activity have surfaced here that Old Louisville has gained the reputation as being the spookiest neighborhood in the entire country. Join a guide for this nightly tour that introduces you to the ghostly past and paranormal hotspots in America’s Most Haunted Neighborhood. Best enjoyed against the backdrop of gas lamps and hidden walking courts, this haunted history tour has received awards and accolades from national and international publications such as Southern Living magazine. Offered daily at 7:30 pm from March 15 to November 15 (call 502-718-2764 for times during the off-season), this walking tour takes approximately 90 minutes and costs $20 per person. This tour is based on David Domine’s book True Ghost Stories and Eerie Legends from America’s Most Haunted Neighborhood. David himself is very often the guide.

the "America's Most Exuberant Neighborhood" tour

Since it was declared a historic preservation district in the 1970s, many have considered Old Louisville the most architecturally exuberant neighborhoods in the country. With more than a thousand old homes, it’s one of the largest as well. Constructed primarily between 1880 and 1905, the residences in Old Louisville showcase a wide variety of building styles, including Châteauesque, Richardsonian-Romanesque, Italianate, Victorian Gothic, and Queen Anne – just to name a few. If you like old homes and fabulous architecture, this is a tour you won’t want to miss. A knowledgeable guide will share stories and architectural details while you walk the neighborhood and view its most impressive structures. At the same time, you will learn about the bourbon barons, racetrack royalty, and to***co titans who lived there and hear the stories of how they and other colorful characters made this historic district America’s Most Exuberant Neighborhood. Offered daily at 11 am and 1 pm from March 15 to November 15 (call for appointments during the off-season), this walking tour takes approximately 90 minutes and costs $20 per person. This tour gets its name from David Domine's popular book Old Louisville: Exuberant, Elegant, and Alive and the author himself might even show up and be your guide.

All tours depart from in front of the brown “Welcome to Old Louisville” sign at the corner of Fourth and Ormsby!

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