Algonquin is a
neighborhood
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in
Louisville
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.
...
,
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...
,
United States
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. Its boundaries are Hill street to the north, Cypress Street to the west,
CSX
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...
tracks to the east, and Bernheim Lane and Algonquin Parkway to the south. It was established in the 1920s and is primarily a
residential neighborhood
A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas.
Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family reside ...
, named for nearby Algonquin Park. Samuel D. Jones Park is located on Thirteenth and Bashear streets.
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External links
Street map of AlgonquinImages of Algonquin in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collection
Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky
1920s establishments in Kentucky
Populated places established in the 1920s
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