For Immediate Release
Contact: Diane Comer
502-892-3611
FRANKFORT, Ky. (April 12, 2021) – A nomination proposing individual National Register of Historic Places listing for the Theophilus T. Conrad House/Rose Anna Hughes Presbyterian Widows Home in Louisville will be considered during a meeting at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 13 of the Kentucky Historic Preservation Review Board. The meeting is open to the public and may be accessed via Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85254396846
Located on a prominent corner at Magnolia Avenue and St. James Court, the three-story, Late Victorian/Richardsonian Romanesque stone mansion has in recent years served as an event space and been known as the Conrad-Caldwell House. It was constructed in in three main building campaigns dating to 1895, 1959 and 1966, with the original portion designed by Louisville architects Charles J. Clarke and Arthur Loomis. The home was previously included as a contributing resource in both the St. James-Belgravia and Old Louisville Residential National Register districts.
This nomination expands the individual National Register criterion for its social history association as the Rose Anna Hughes Presbyterian Widows Home from 1947 to 1987. According to the nomination, authored by David Ames, Savannah Darr and Kate Meador, “The Conrad-Caldwell House is indicative of how an opulent, architect-designed urban mansion is continuously occupied and adaptively reused: first as a boarding house, then a widow's home, and finally a historic house museum.”
The review board is charged with evaluating and recommending National Register submissions from Kentucky. The program is administered by the Kentucky Heritage Council/State Historic Preservation Office in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS). Following review board deliberation, NPS will have 45 days from receipt to issue a final determination of National Register listing.
The National Register is the nation’s official list of historic and archaeological resources deemed worthy of preservation. To read the nomination, visit www.heritage.ky.gov.
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An agency of the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, the Kentucky Heritage Council/State Historic Preservation Office is responsible for the identification, protection and preservation of prehistoric resources and historic buildings, sites and cultural resources throughout the Commonwealth, in partnership with other state and federal agencies, local communities and interested citizens.