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Central Avenue Historic District (Pewee Valley, Kentucky)

historic district in Kentucky, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ55012868 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Central Avenue Historic District is a historic district in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, United States. Covering an area of 40 acres (16 ha), it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It included 21 contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and a contributing site.

The district runs along Central Ave. from Peace Ln. to Mt. Mercy Dr. and covers 17 residences and businesses with their outbuildings.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Central Avenue Historic District (Pewee Valley, Kentucky)” is historic district in Kentucky, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Central, Avenue and Historic, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Central, Avenue and Historic is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “historic district in Kentucky, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55012868. Authority coordinates are 38.311, -85.493. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Central Avenue Historic District (Pewee Valley, Kentucky)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Central Avenue Historic District (Pewee Valley, Kentucky) primary sources, Central Avenue Historic District (Pewee Valley, Kentucky) archive and Central research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Central Avenue Historic District (Pewee Valley, Kentucky)”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Central Avenue Historic District (Pewee Valley, Kentucky)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.