Posts Tagged ‘Kentucky’
Haymarket Park & Lincoln Saltdogs | Lincoln, Nebraska | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Haymarket Park, a baseball and softball complex located west of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is the home field of the Lincoln Saltdogs since 2001 and the Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball since 2002. The Hawks Field, a 4,500-seat baseball stadium, is a two-time winner of the Baseball Field of the Year Award by the Sports Turf...
More →Grawemeyer Hall at University of Louisville | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Auguste Rodin’s Le Penseur, also known for its English title The Thinker, was commissioned by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. The version installed in front of the University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Hall, a building modeled after the Jeffersonian Rotunda in the University of Virginia, was the first bronze cast made from the original sculpture.
More →21c Museum Hotel | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang 21c Museum Hotel was opened in 2006 by Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Five 19th century historical buildings, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, were renovated into a trendy space filled with a contemporary art museum of 21st century, a 90-room luxury hotel, and an up-scale restaurant “Proof on Main.” Cracking Art Group’s...
More →The Muhammad Ali Center | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang After spending majority part of Sunday morning continuously embraced by 16 Fahrenheit ice-cold weather and light wintry mix while walking around the downtown Louisville, I was more than ready to transport myself to any place with warmer-than-glacial temperature. 12 o’clock. Doors of “Museum Row” in the West Main District of Louisville were finally unsealed and visitors began to emerge...
More →Frazier International History Museum | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The Frazier International History Museum, found by Owsley Brown Frazier, is located in the “Museum Row” in the West Main District in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Formally known as the Frazier Historical Arms Museum, the museum’s exhibitions focus on historical arm collections, a collection from UK’s Royal Armouries, and a number of live costumed interpretations. Frazier International History Museum
More →Transylvania University | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang After a brief and delightful visit to ArtsPlace, a facility operated by the Lexington Arts and Cultural Council in the downtown Lexington, I insouciantly ambled toward the Gratz Park Historic District nearby with colossal expectations to be vehemently wowed. The composed atmosphere of the park and grand 19th-century townhouses gradually transformed my big wows into a still and exquisite monotone with...
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