Bellevue Historical Highway Markers

Bellevue Kentucky

24 Fairfield Avenue Highway Kentucky 8.  Incorporated March 15, 1870, on part of original land grant to General James Taylor, pioneer, for whose farm this city was named.  A general in War of 1812, banker and statesman, whose farm was an underground railroad station.  President of the first town trustees was George D Allen.  Hometown of Anna E Wolfram one of Kentucky's first women doctors.

Bellevue Landmark

Taylor Avenue and Division in Bellevue.  For many years the tower and nave of this edifice have served as an historic feature of Bellevue.  The Sacred Heart Church, built 1874, was first house of worship in this city.  Present building erected 1892-93, was originally called Herz Jesu Kriche.  At that time the parish ministered chiefly to the German speaking population.

This structure which resembles the provincial Bavarian churches, was designed by Cincinnati architect Louis Picket.  Altars with ogee arches, elaborate niches, finials, architraves, and bar tracery were hand carved in Germany.  The triple clerestory windows have stained glass of European narrative type.  Murals created by local Leon Lippert and Theodore Brasch.