Tag: Preservation

Eh, why not? Let’s take a tour of a long-vacant former strip club in downtown Covington. Viva La Foxx has been closed for years, but there are still remnants of the club’s… glory days? There’s an ashtray with cigarette butts still in it atop a booth’s table that is covered in elaborate cobwebs. The dancers’ […]

At the corner of Eight and Washington Streets in downtown Covington, two brick towers are emerging from the ground, the first real visual of what’s to come: a sprawling residential building that will stretch across the entire block of Washington to Pike Street. Across Washington, atop a parking lot that long-served downtown workers, the second […]

The first step in nominating Devou Park to the National Register of Historic Places was taken Tuesday at the Covington City Commission meeting. The city commission voted to sign the Kentucky Certified Local Government Report Form. “Devou Park is a special place with a unique history,” said City of Covington preservation & planning specialist Emily Ahouse. “The nomination […]

What comes around goes around! Beyond the Curb returns to Covington for the Catalytic Fund’s fifth installment of showcasing the urban living opportunities in Northern Kentucky’s urban core. The first tour was in Covington in 2015, followed by tours in Newport, Bellevue & Dayton, and Ludlow. The one-day self-guided tours offer visitors, neighbors, and others […]

Some time between 1877 and 1886, the D. McNamara Tobacco Co. constructed a factory on Covington’s Sixth Street. There was a warehouse, a supply house, and multiple residences on the site. Over the years, some of the structures vanished, and now only the building currently known as the John R. Green building in Mainstrasse Village, […]

It is one of Covington’s most recognizable landmarks, standing stoically in the center of Goebel Park, casting a proud shadow across Mainstrasse Village as a nod to the city’s German heritage. Its frequent shows – a re-telling of The Pied Piper of Hamelin tale – delights audiences of all ages in better weather. But the Carroll Chimes […]

This story has been updated to note that the sale of the building has not been completed, and that H. Johnson only operates out of one location and while its storage operations will be moved off site, the offices, moving trucks, and records management business will remain at its current site, pending sale of the […]

Built in 1888 as the Covington Fire Department’s Company 4, this historic building on Main Street is up for sale again. It served for nearly a hundred years as a firehouse, but has been a residential building since the 1980s.  The building – which can be a single family or two-family – sold in 2014, […]