Nando Felty Saloon

The Nando Felty Saloon, at 1500 Front St. in Ashland, Kentucky, was built in 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1][2][3]

Nando Felty Saloon
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1500 Front St., Ashland, Kentucky
Coordinates	38°28′51″N 82°38′21″W
Built	1895
MPS	Ashland MRA
NRHP reference No.	79003557[1]
Added to NRHP	July 3, 1979

It was a three-story three-bay brick commercial building, overlooking the Ohio River and railroad tracks. Its first-floor windows were filled with brickwork later, but the facade had surviving cast-iron pilasters with "serpentine relief", a motif "formerly also found on the facade of the City Market building on Greenup Avenue, demolished in 1978." The facades also had pressed metal Italianate-style cornices and window hoods. The building's southwest wall was painted with "several fine early commercial graphics, including 'LET US BE YOUR TAILORS; THE UNITED WOOLEN MILLS CO; TAILORS TO THE MASSES.'"[2]

The building served as a saloon and a boarding house. It was significant as "a prominent Ashland social center until Prohibition. Barry and Johnson, John Cobs, and Nando Felty were successive owners of a saloon here. This is one of the most substantial nineteenth-century commercial buildings in Ashland, and is the only surviving early hostel building."[2]

Site of the saloon. Levee wall protecting vs. flooding of the Ohio River at rear.

It no longer exists at that site.[4]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Felty, Nando, Saloon". National Park Service. Retrieved March 14, 2019. With accompanying two photos from 1977
3. Edward A. Chappell (April 20, 1978). "Historic Resources of Ashland" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
4. Per a Wikipedia editor who visited the site.