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Old Jeffersonville National Register Of Historic Places District

Jeffersonville's Central Business District, the downtown river front, and several adjoining residential blocks are notable for their eclectic assortment of middle and late 19th century architecture, which typifies a small Midwestern river city. The central business district boasts several distinctive Renaissance Revival commercial structures, including Schimpff's Confectionery, a century-old candy-making firm that ships its products to a nationwide market. Several storefronts have undergone restoration and adaptive reuse through the efforts of the Main street program. The riverfront is marked by well-preserved structures ranging from Federal to Victorian. The district also includes several outstanding churches, such as the High Victorian Gothic St. Paul's Episcopal Church and the Spanish-style St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church.

Schimpff's Confectionery

Recently named one of Indiana's seven "Hidden Treasures," Schimpff's Confectionery has been producing fine handmade candies in Jeffersonville since 1891. Founded by Gustav A. Schimpff, the firm has been in family ownership for four generations. The business is located in a unique brick and tile storefront with a tin ceiling. The building was erected just after the Civil War; it has survived three major floods, and markers on the front record the height of the floodwaters. The company is famous for its fish candy, horehound drops, and original cinnamon red hots. A traditional favorite are the hand-dipped Modjeskas, a caramel-covered marshmallow treat named for the famous Polish-born actress, Madame Helen Modjeska, who performed in Louisville in 1883. More recent favorites are the chocolate-covered caramels and pecans molded into the shape of turtles. Lunch is served at Schimpff's old-fashioned soda fountain.

Howard Steamboat Museum

This 22-room Romanesque Revival mansion was erected during the 1890s by Edmonds J. Howard, son of James Howard, founder of the Howard Ship Yards. Designed by Louisville architects Max J. Drach and John Hardin Thomas and built at a cost of $85,000, much of its excellent craftsmanship reflects the work of company shipbuilders. The house features both stained and leaded-glass windows, paneled rooms, and a music room in the Moorish style complete with its original neo-Louis XV furniture. The museum houses a fascinating collection of navigational equipment, paddlewheels and replicas of steamboats, among other exhibits. The Queen Anne-style carriage house and an extensive yard enclosed by a heavy brick wall are features, which accent the lifestyle of a wealthy Gilded Age family. The entire structure recently underwent extensive restoration.

Jeffboat

By 1940, battered by the Great Depression and the 1937 flood, the Howard Ship Yards had fallen on hard times. In 1942 the US Navy purchased the facility and several adjoining properties and turned them over to the Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Company, or Jeffboat, for the production of landing craft and other warships. By the end of World War II, Jeffboat had launched 123 LST' (Landing Ship-Tank), 26 submarine chaser, and hundreds of other craft. After the war, Jeffboat turned to building barges and towboats, but it also has turned out such custom-built vessels as the luxury paddle wheeler Mississippi Queen, Opryland's General Jackson, and the coastal cruise ship Monterey Clipper. Today, Jeffboat, Inc. is America's largest inland shipbuilder and one of Southern Indiana's largest industrial employers.

Quartermaster Depot

Designed by Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs and first occupied in 1874, this magnificent collection of 19th century industrial and warehouse buildings covers foursquare blocks. One architectural historian has described the complex as "functional architecture of the highest quality." The famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead designed the original interior grounds. The Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot, which by the end of World War II extended for more than 10 city blocks, supplied equipment for the armed forces until 1957. Unfortunately, the structure suffered a devastating fire in January 1993. The blaze destroyed a large portion of the southeast corner, the remains of which have been razed.

Taylor High School

The most important historical landmark for Jeffersonville's African-American community, Taylor High School was the primary center of learning for the city's black youth from 1891 until schools were desegregated in 1952. Located on Wall Street and originally named City School, the institution was renamed in 1924 for Robert Frank Taylor, who served as principal from the school's opening until his death in 1926. Although known as a high school, the two-story, red brick classical structure actually served all grades. At the time of desegregation, Taylor's longtime principal, Corden Porter, was transferred to Jeffersonville High School as an attendance officer and later as an English and biology teacher. The Corden Porter Education Center is named in his honor. Meanwhile, Taylor High School served as Wall Street Elementary School until the 1970s. For several years thereafter it housed the W. E. Wilson Education Center, an instructional resource facility that serves several Southern Indiana school systems.

George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge

In January 1918 two interurban cars crashed, killing three passengers and injuring twenty. Several years ago, after a series of railroad mergers made the bridge expendable, its approaches were removed, and today the Big Four is the "Bridge that goes nowhere".

John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge

Designed by the Louisville engineering firm of Hazelet & Erdal, this six-lane, single-deck cantilever span links Jeffersonville and Louisville via Interstate 65. The span still unnamed when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Four days later, Kentucky Governor Bert T. Combs announced bipartisan agreement among officials of both Kentucky and Indiana that the bridge should be named in memory of the fallen president. The bridge was dedicated and opened for northbound traffic on December 6th. Southbound traffic started flowing a few weeks later.