The United States Marine Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, in the Portland neighborhood was part of the U.S. Marine Hospital system, which was run by the Marine Hospital Service and its successor the
The new (left) and original (right) main buildings of the Marine Hospital
Postcard view of hospital from around 1909
The original hospital building in 2025
Postcard view of the new main building from the late 1930s or early 1940s
Portland is a historic district, neighborhood and former independent town northwest of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It is situated along a bend of the Ohio River just below the Falls of the Ohio Nat
United States Marine Hospital (Louisville, Kentucky)
…The United States Marine Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, in the Portland neighborhood was part of the U.S. Marine Hospital system, which was run by the Marine Hospital Service and its successor the Public Health Service…
Completed in 1812, the Squire Earick House in the Portland neighborhood is the oldest known wood-framed structure in Louisville.
The United States Marine Hospital of Louisville is considered the best remaining antebellum hospital in the United States.
An 1863 mansion built for Enoch Lockhart, the first superintendent of the Louisville and Portland Canal. It was later used at the corporate offices of the Ky. & Ind. Terminal Railroad Co.
The original route of the Louisville and Portland Canal, prior to widenings in 1872, 1928, 1962, and 2008.