The Nando Felty Saloon, at 1500 Front St. in Ashland, Kentucky, was built in 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1][2][3]
Nando Felty Saloon | |
 Former site of the saloon. Levee wall protecting vs. flooding of the Ohio River at rear. | |
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| Location | 1500 Front St., Ashland, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 38°28′51″N 82°38′21″W / 38.48083°N 82.63917°W |
| Built | 1895 |
| MPS | Ashland MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 79003557[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 3, 1979 |
It was a three-story three-bay brick commercial building, overlooking the Ohio River and railroad tracks. Its first-floor windows were filled with brickwork later, but the facade had surviving cast-iron pilasters with "serpentine relief", a motif "formerly also found on the facade of the City Market building on Greenup Avenue, demolished in 1978." The facades also had pressed metal Italianate-style cornices and window hoods. The building's southwest wall was painted with "several fine early commercial graphics, including 'LET US BE YOUR TAILORS; THE UNITED WOOLEN MILLS CO; TAILORS TO THE MASSES.'"[2]
The building served as a saloon and a boarding house. It was significant as "a prominent Ashland social center until Prohibition. Barry and Johnson, John Cobs, and Nando Felty were successive owners of a saloon here. This is one of the most substantial nineteenth-century commercial buildings in Ashland, and is the only surviving early hostel building."[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ a b c "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Felty, Nando, Saloon". National Park Service. Retrieved March 14, 2019. With accompanying two photos from 1977
- ^ Edward A. Chappell (April 20, 1978). "Historic Resources of Ashland" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved March 14, 2019.