History

The building was first built in 1925 on the corner of Fifth and Walnut Street as the Kentucky Hotel. It was the last hotel built in downtown Kentucky before World War Two. The late 1960s experienced a large growth in new apartment construction throughout the United States. At the same time, some buildings were converted into apartment buildings, and in 1972 the Kentucky Hotel was converted to an apartment building and renamed the Kentucky Towers. In 1978, the Louisville Board of Aldermen voted 6–5 to rename Walnut Street to Muhammad Ali Boulevard. In 1997, Kentucky Towers was the largest residential building in Downtown Louisville

Downtown Louisville

Downtown Louisville is the largest central business district in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the urban hub of the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Area. Its boundaries are the Ohio River to the north, Hancock Street to the east, York and Jacob Streets to the south, and 9th Street to the west...

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Building

The building is 19 stories and includes 285 apartments. As of 1997, the swimming pool on the roof of the seventh floor was the highest swimming pool in the State of Kentucky.

In 2005, the building was purchased for $7.65 million by a New York City investor Aaron Parnes. In April 2010, PMR Companies, a local management company, began managing the building.

Notable inhabitants

• Maria Siemionow
  Maria Siemionow
  Maria Siemionow is a Polish surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. She gained public notice in December, 2008, when she led a team of six surgeons in a 22-hour surgery, performing the first face transplant in the United States on Connie Culp. She is currently Director of Plastic...
  
  , Polish-American surgeon who performed the first face transplant.