LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (SDJW) — The boyhood home of Justice Louis D. Brandeis has been sold at auction for $880,000, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The building with a limestone front at 310 E. Broadway has been expanded considerably from the home built in 1864 by Adolphus and Frederika Brandeis, when their son Louis was eight years old.
Louis Brandeis, the first Jew to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, was appointed to the U.S. Supremne Court in 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson, serving there until 1939.
He died two years later, and his papers were sent to the University of Louisville where they are archived. Brandeis’s cremated remains are buried under the portico of the university’s law school.
In 1913, the Brandeis home was purchased by the German Gymnastic Association, which expanded it considrably to make room for a gym and a bowling alley.
Today, the three-story building ccovers most of the area of a 32,000-square-foot property and has been used for medical offices, according to auctioneer Bill Menish of the Sperry Van Ness auction house. At least two of the tenants had dermatology practices.
Identity of the purchaser was not disclosed, however, auctioneer Don Erler said he believed the building would continue to be used for medical offices.
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Preceding story was rewritten from the Louisville Courier-Journal.