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The Museum campus doesn’t just hold Louisville’s history; it is a part of Louisville’s history. Each of our three main structures are places in which Louisville residents have lived and worked for over one hundred years, earning our buildings a place on the Louisville Register of Historic Places. The Jacoe Store is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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You’ll enter our campus through its main building, the Jacoe Store, which Eliseo and Ann Jacoe operated as a grocery store from the 1920s to the 1950s. Throughout the first half of the 20th century Louisville residents regularly shopped at the Jacoe’s and enjoyed the couple’s selection of imported Italian goods. Today you can use our collections in the Jacoe Store to imagine what it was like to be a coal miner in Louisville’s early years or to think about the role downtown businesses played in creating our community.
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| From the Jacoe Store, Museum staff and volunteers can take you on a tour of the Tomeo House and Jordinelli House. | |
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In the Tomeo House you can see what it was like to live as a family in Louisville during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. Between 1924 and 1941, the seven-member Rossi family lived in this three-room structure. |
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Inside the Jordinelli House you’ll view a six-foot by six-foot replica of downtown Louisville set in the time between 1895 and 1920. Long-time Louisville resident Dick Del Pizzo made this model and donated it to the Museum. |
Read the story of how and why Del Pizzo made the replica in the Summer 2014 Louisville Historian.