St. Joseph is a neighborhood two miles south of downtown
Louisville, Kentucky
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,
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, and immediately east of the
University of Louisville
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. It borders the Meriwether neighborhood to the north and Schnitzelburg to the east. The area was named after the St. Joseph's Infirmary hospital, which was established by the
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
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. The building, once located at the corner of Preston Street and
Eastern Parkway
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, was razed in 1980.
The area was settled by mostly
German
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immigrants from
Bavaria
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in the 1900s. The housing stock is composed of
bungalow
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and
shotgun house
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s. The three
Jew
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ish cemeteries, Temple Cemetery, Adath Jeshuran Cemetery, and Keneseth Israel Cemetery are located next to each other in the southern part, more commonly referred to as the
Bradley
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neighborhood.
St. Joseph's boundaries are
I-65
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to the west, Brandeis Ave.to the north and Shelby Street to the east.
Demographics
As of 2000, the population of St. Joseph was 1,590 , of which 83.6% are white, 11.4% are black, 4.8% are listed as other, and Hispanics are 0.3%. College graduates are 15.8%, people without a high school degree are 25%, people with at least one year of college without a degree are 10.9%. Females are 50.8% of the population, while males are 49.2%.
See also
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History of the Germans in Louisville
The history of Germans in Louisville began in 1817. In that year, a man named August David Ehrich, a master shoe maker born in Königsberg, arrived in Louisville. Ehrich was the first native-born German in Louisville, but as early as 1787, Penns ...
References
External links
Images of Saint Joseph (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collections
Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky
1900s establishments in Kentucky
Populated places established in the 1900s
German-American culture in Louisville, Kentucky
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