Brick and stone Victorian mansions line a car free court, where Queen of the Ring filmed in 2023.
What Old Louisville looks like
runs as an 800 foot green between two one way streets, with limestone and brick mansions facing the lawn on both sides. crosses it partway down and has never allowed cars, just two sidewalks and shade trees between the house fronts.
The mansions themselves are brick with red sandstone and limestone trim, turrets, bay windows and stone stoops behind iron fences. At Fourth and Hill, five nearly identical brick and stone houses called stand a foot apart without touching, their turrets repeating down the block face.
Farther from the courts, the blocks narrow to two storey houses in painted brick, like the row on the east side of the behind iron fences. A red brick schoolhouse on Kentucky Street sits under the elevated lanes of Interstate 65.
Twentieth century apartment towers rise as high as sixteen storeys along Third Street, well above the two and three storey houses around them. Tudor Revival buildings with half timbering, like the Stuart Building on Oak Street, were built as late as 1929 and stand at the edge of the mansion blocks.
Shot in Old Louisville
Queen of the Ring filmed on St James Court in the summer of 2023. The 2025 drama about wrestler Mildred Burke used the Conrad-Caldwell House and the Pink Palace, two houses a block apart at the top of the court.
Queen of the Ring, 2025
The 1893 Richardsonian Romanesque mansion at 1402 St James Court, with a corner turret and a wide stone staircase, is one of two houses on the court used in Queen of the Ring. It operates today as a house museum, open for tours Thursday through Sunday. The production's other location, the Pink Palace at 1473 St James Court, is a private home with no photograph on this page. Street View
Summit Avenue in Saint Paul is lined with red sandstone Romanesque mansions from the 1880s and 1890s, the same period as St James Court. The James J. Hill House there has round arches and a slate roof close to the block's own vocabulary. The avenue itself runs far wider than St James Court's one lane streets, so a tight frame on a single house holds the comparison better than a full street shot. Try searching red sandstone Romanesque mansions now.
Prairie Avenue Historic District in Chicago, Illinois
Prairie Avenue's surviving brick and limestone mansions between 16th and 22nd Streets carry the same round arched windows and steep rooflines as the blocks around St James Court, dating to the 1870s through 1890s. Only a handful of the original houses remain, so a wide shot needs to stay close on the surviving ones rather than pan down the block. Try searching brick and limestone mansions now.
Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia
Monument Avenue is an early 1900s mansion avenue of Colonial and Tudor Revival houses running through about 1930, later than most of St James Court but close in scale to the apartment towers a few blocks away. Large monuments line the avenue's median the whole way down, so a frame has to stay close on the houses rather than take in the street. Try searching early 1900s mansion avenue now.
