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H.P. McDonald ironwork album

There are some striking similarities in two of Kentucky's most beautiful buildings, the Historic Adair County Courthouse and the Louisville Water Works/Crescent Hill Plant Ann Curtis has discovered. Photographs with H.P. McDonald style ironwork, linked in this album. Click on headline to access all of them.



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Scenic Adair Co., KY: Another unusual Courthouse Angle



2012-06-02 - 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Larry Smith, directed by Ralph Waggener. The Power of Synergized Art when the concept execution team of Ralph & Larry teamed up again and focused skyward. From their vantage point on the low roof of the Campbellsville Street addition, concept partner Ralph R. Waggener directed master photographer Larry Smith to capture the essence of the wonderful symetry in the old Countrhouse. The top center structure may take a second glance: It's the basket on top of the building. Smith, the news anchor at WAVE 92.7 FM and Ralph Waggener, President of South Central Printing and editor of It's Just for a Smile news did what so many visitors to the Adair Heritage Association's first and sure to be annual book fair today: They discovered and rediscovered what has endeared to old building to the hundreds of thousands of people who have seen it over the year, a big part of whom have called it the prettiest public building they've ever seen.
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Scenic Adair Co., KY: Jamestown Street through grillwork



2012-06-03 - 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener.
Jamestown Street through the grill work
on the Historic Adair County Courthouse balcony. June 2, 2012.

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Louisville Water Works/AC Courthouse architectural smilarities



2012-06-03 - Louisville, KY - Photo from collection of Ann Heskamp Curtis.
Ironwork similarities, Courthouse and Louisville Water Works: The iron work at the top of the Courthouse in the Larry Smith photo is similar to that of the Louisville Water Works Crescent Hill Plant. This possibly might be because the architect who designed the Adair County Courthouse, Harry P. McDonald, was superintendent of construction of the Crescent Hill Plant of the Louisville Water Works. A Virginia native and a civil engineering graduate of Washington and Lee University, H.P. McDonald came to Louisville in 1873 to work on the structure.In 1884 the Adair County Courthouse was designed by the firm H. P. McDonald Bros. -Ann Heskamp Curtis

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Historic Adair County Courthouse: Iron Work



2012-06-04 - 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo photo composition concept by Ralph Waggener. Ralph Waggener directed the composition of this picture to have the ironwork point to the historic Russell Building, before Ann Curtis sent the rest of the story - its architectural significance and the ties with another H.P. McDonald treasure - the Crescent Hill water plant in Louisville, KY.
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