I ride by that facade often and didn't know its significance. I looked it up today and here's what I found. It's called the Heigold Facade and was moved recently across River Road to make way for luxury condos. It's in an area that used to be referred to as
The Point. It's only a few hundred yards from Eva Bandman Cyclocross Park.
According to the Encyclopedia of Louisville, Christian Heigold, a German immigrant and stonecutter, came to Louisville before 1850. He built a home near the river in an area called The Point near what's now called Butchertown. It was erected around the time of the Civil War at a time of intense anti-immigrant sentiment. Heigold carved into the stone facade patriotic inscriptions and images to show his patriotism to his adopted homeland, including one of George Washington. Heigold died in 1865 and his son Charles lived there until his death in 1925.