Central Avenue Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Central Avenue Historic District is a historic district in Pewee Valley, Kentucky, United States. Covering an area of 40 acres (16 ha), it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Wikipedia article Central Avenue Historic District (Pewee Valley, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Oldham County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Roughly Central Ave. from Peace Ln. to Mt. Mercy Dr., Pewee Valley, 40056
When was it listed? August 1989
Category. district
Also known as. Peewee Valley MPS
Census division. Pewee Valley
National Register reference number. 89000950 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Central Avenue Historic District: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Avoca Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crestwood Mine Underground	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crestwood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Oldham County Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Oldham County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Van Horn-Ross House	0.2 miles	1989
St. Aloysius Church	0.3 miles	1989
Building at 301 La Grange Road	0.3 miles	1989
William Alexander Smith House	0.4 miles	1989
Ashwood Avenue Historic District	0.4 miles	1989
Bondurant-Hustin House	0.4 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000950 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oldham County	All 48 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.