Louisville Historic Tours Adds Three New Old Louisville Walking Tours
The Conrad-Caldwell House is one of the tour stops. Wikimedia Commons
David Dominé, founder of Louisville Historic Tours and award-winning author of the 2021 true-crime memoir A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City, is adding three new walking tours to the 2023 season, which fully reopens to the public Wednesday, March 15 through November. In the off-season, a stream-lined schedule of narrated walks is offered.
Louisville Historic Tours features guided walks through Old Louisville, the country's largest Victorian neighborhood. Dominé’s new tours, including the Glitter Ball City Tour, Secrets and Scandals of Old Louisville Tour, and Paranormal Buff Supernatural Tour, focus on infamous murders, local gossip, and paranormal activity, bringing his true-crime books to life and providing a broad overview of the neighborhood and its most impressive and spooky sights.
“Interest in Old Louisville just keeps growing, especially since the good press generated by my latest book,” Dominé said in a news release. “These new tours are a way to accommodate the increase in visitors to the neighborhood while catering to the increasing demand for interactive, experiential activities."
Created by popular demand, the Glitter Ball City Tour hits many of the spots in Old Louisville that are featured in Dominé’s 2021 true-crime memoir, A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City. Guided by the author himself, this walk will include a stop at a popular neighborhood watering hole to enjoy drinks along the way. Participants will also receive other extras, such as a signed copy of the book and a disco ball souvenir. Limited to 12 people, this experiential tour is available on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.
The Secrets and Scandals of Old Louisville Tour visits locations where famous people lived and died; houses with interesting backstories and hidden architectural features; and places where scandals and murders occurred. This tour runs seven days a week at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
The Paranormal Buff Supernatural Tour is also limited to 12 people, and runs on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 8 p.m., or by appointment for small groups. Trained Orisha priestess and expert storyteller Angelique Stacy encourages participants to bring along their EMF readers and other devices as they investigate several neighborhood sites that are reportedly haunted. On this three-hour tour, guests will enter the impressive Conrad-Caldwell House on St. James Court and a Third Street mansion that was once home to a family of poets and artists. They will also receive a signed copy of Dominé’s True Ghost Stories and Eerie Legends from America's Most Haunted Neighborhood.
Louisville Historic Tours will continue to offer its daytime Old Louisville Walking Tour focusing on the area’s history and Victorian architecture at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. seven days a week. Focusing on allegedly haunted locations, local legends, and spooky tales, the nighttime Old Louisville Ghost Tour will also continue to run at 6 p.m., 7:30 p.m., and 9:15 p.m. seven days a week.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit louisvillehistorictours.com.
