Directions to the Library
The Center for Advancing America’s Heritage
SAR Genealogical Research Library
809 West Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202
(502) 589-1776
IF TRAVELING I-64 EAST: take Exit 4 toward 9th Street. Turn left on West Market Street. Then, go one block to 8th Street, and turn left. If you are parking on the street or dropping off someone at our front door, go one block and turn left onto West Main Street. Our entrance is three doors down on the right (809 W. Main). If you are planning to park in a pay lot, go two blocks to Washington Street. There are surface parking lots at both 8th and Washington Streets and 9th and Washington Streets. There is also an indoor parking lot behind the Slugger Museum that you may enter from 8th Street, between Market and Main Streets. There is on-street, metered parking, as well, on West Main Street and side streets.
IF TRAVELING I-64 WEST: take Exit 4 toward 9th Street. If you are parking on the street or dropping off someone at our front door, go about two blocks to West Liberty Street and turn left. Go one block and turn left onto 8th Street, then go one block and turn left onto West Main Street. Our entrance is three doors down on the right (809 W. Main). If you are planning to park in a pay lot, go about a block or so from exit ramp and turn left at first opening in median, and then left again onto 9th Street. Go two blocks to where 9th Street ends at Washington Street. There are surface parking lots at both 8th and Washington Streets and 9th and Washington Streets. There is also an indoor parking lot behind the Slugger Museum that you may enter from 8th Street, between Market and Main Streets. There is on-street, metered parking, as well, on West Main Street and side streets.
One-way and two-way streets are indicated by arrows drawn on the streets of the downtown map: arrows pointing left or right indicate one-way west or one-way east, respectively; arrows pointing up or down indicate one-way north or one-way south, respectively; and, arrows pointing both ways together indicate two-way streets. (Note: Some two-way streets may only be two-way streets for one or two blocks of an otherwise one-way street, such as 8th Street from Market to Main to Washington Streets.)