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Gratz Park Historic District

Gratz Park is a neighborhood and historic district located just north of downtown Lexington, Kentucky.

The place

Gratz Park is a neighborhood and historic district located just north of downtown Lexington, Kentucky. It was named after early Lexington businessman Benjamin Gratz whose home stands on the corner of Mill and New streets at the edge of Gratz Park. The Gratz Park Historic District consists of 16 contributing buildings including the Hunt-Morgan House, the Bodley-Bullock House, the original Carnegie Library, which now houses the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, and several other private residences. Gratz Park occupies a tract of land that was established in 1781 outside the original boundaries of Lexington.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gratz Park Historic District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Kentucky

    The University of Kentucky is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities.

    2 km · public university in the United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Transylvania University

    Transylvania University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It was founded in 1780 and is Kentucky's oldest university.

    300 m · private university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Diocese of Lexington

    The Diocese of Lexington is a Roman Catholic diocese in southeastern Kentucky in the United States. Erected in 1988, it is a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Louisville.

    2.3 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rupp Arena

    Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center is an arena located in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It is part of Central Bank Center, a convention and shopping facility owned by an arm of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.

    600 m · indoor arena in Lexington, Kentucky · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kroger Field

    Kroger Field, also known as Commonwealth Stadium, is a stadium in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, located on the campus of the University of Kentucky that primarily serves as the home field for the Kentucky Wildcats football team. The stadium is located at the corner of Alumni Drive and University Drive in Lexington.

    3.1 km · stadium at the University of Kentucky · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    African Cemetery No. 2

    African Cemetery No. 2, also known as The Cemetery of the Union Benevolent Society No.

    1.6 km · cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Lexington Cemetery

    Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the 1833 cholera epidemic in the area.

    1.7 km · botanical garden and cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Cathedral of Christ the King

    The Cathedral of Christ the King is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of Lexington.

    3.2 km · church in Kentucky, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    University of Kentucky Arboretum

    The Arboretum, State Botanical Garden of Kentucky, 40 hectares or 100 acres, is located at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It is open to the public from dawn to dusk every day of the year.

    4 km · State Botanical Garden of Kentucky located at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Mary Todd Lincoln House

    Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, was the girlhood home of Mary Todd, the future first lady and wife of the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. Today the fourteen-room house is a museum containing period furniture, portraits, and artifacts from the Todd and Lincoln families.

    600 m · historic house in Kentucky, United States · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Gratz Park Historic District

Airports
Louisville Muhammad Ali (SDF), 109 km · Cincinnati Northern Kentucky (CVG), 112 km · Indianapolis (IND), 242 km
  • Louisville → Gratz Park Historic District
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · $13–18
  • Cincinnati / Covington → Gratz Park Historic District
    6 km · quickest by road, 26 min · $0.5–1
  • Indianapolis → Gratz Park Historic District
    169 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · $15–20
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gratz Park Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

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  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,470 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,187 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,284 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,407 km

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Around it

Next door to Gratz Park Historic District

Gratz Park Historic District is 3 km from Lexington-Fayette, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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