Bourbon Bottle & Glass (Evan Williams)

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

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The Evan Williams Bourbon Experience at 528 West Main Street on Louisville's Whiskey Row was opened in 2013 with a five-storey Evan Williams Bourbon bottle as its facade, according to Heaven Hill. Heaven Hill said the bottle becomes three-dimensional on the lower two floors and pours into a lobby glass of nearly 1,500 gallons.

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Few buildings advertise their business as literally as this one: a five-storey bottle of bourbon was designed to pour into a lobby glass on Louisville's Whiskey Row. The Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, at 528 West Main Street, is a distillery visitor attraction run by Heaven Hill Distilleries, makers of the Evan Williams brand.

Heaven Hill announced the plan in April 2012 and called the facade the signature feature of the building. According to the company, the pouring bottle is reproduced as window graphics on the top three floors and becomes three-dimensional on the two lower floors, where the bottle's neck and a glass in the lobby form a flowing "Bourbon fountain." By the time the attraction opened in November 2013, the company described the lowball glass as nearly 1,500 gallons. Louisville exhibit firm Solid Light lists planning, design, media, fabrication and installation among its work on the 12,000-square-foot experience, and its project page describes the five-storey bottle sculpture that greets visitors.

The site has a history behind it. Heaven Hill says Evan Williams, whom it calls Kentucky's first commercial distiller, set up an early distillery in 1783 near what is now Sixth and Main streets, steps from the attraction. The company said in 2012 that the building had earlier been occupied by the Philip Hollenbach Co., a whiskey distributor, which Heaven Hill acquired more than 70 years before.

The 2013 release put the project at $10.5 million, with a working pot-still distillery, themed tasting rooms, a retail area and a speakeasy-style space downstairs, and said it became the eighth stop on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail and the first in Louisville. The Kentucky Bourbon Trail lists it as open seven days a week except holidays.

Heaven Hill described the bottle as the building's facade when the attraction opened in 2013. According to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, tours inside charge a fee, and the operator publishes current hours.

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Heaven Hill described a five-story bottle as the building's facade when the attraction opened in 2013. The Kentucky Bourbon Trail lists the attraction as open seven days except holidays. Tours charge a fee; check the operator for hours.

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528 West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, on Whiskey Row. Heaven Hill described the bottle as the building's facade in 2013; tours inside are run by the operator, Heaven Hill.

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