The Highlands

The Inverness Condominiums are located in the Cherokee Triangle section of Louisville's Highlands area. The Cherokee Triangle is a historic neighborhood known for its large homes, elegant architecture, pedestrian-friendly shopping among unique boutiques and and vast array of excellent dining options.

The neighborhood plays host to a popular art fair, which occurs in late April. A local landmark is a statue of General John Breckenridge Castleman, dedicated in 1913, and supposedly the only equestrian statue in the world for which the horse posed also.

Much of the Cherokee Triangle was developed by James W. Henning and Josiah S. Speed in the 1880s, as an early streetcar suburb of Louisville. After the opening of Cherokee Park in 1890, the area quickly became a popular site for affluent families.

Cherokee Park was designed, like 18 of Louisville's public parks, by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture. Throughout the park there are many trails, which wind through the trees and over Beargrass Creek, leading to open fields, roads or smaller trails. Because the park is not far from Bardstown Road and Louisville's downtown area, you get the two extremes of the city and nature.

The Highlands sits atop a ridge between the middle and south forks of Beargrass Creek. It was the last area near downtown Louisville to be urbanized, since its steep 60-foot incline above the flood plain made travel difficult, although several notable families did own plantations there, spurred by the 1819 Louisville and Bardstown Turnpike (today's Bardstown Road). Many businesses formed along the turnpike, which became public in 1901, with residential development back off the main road. The growth crept down Bardstown Road as the streetcar lines continued to be extended. By the 1930s, the entire area today called The Highlands had been developed.