Noon's on Riverside

04/05/2024

The Town of Clarksville’s latest Rfp is out there to build streets and infrastructure behind the flood wall. Note second photo has a York street label right over the top of the house 🙄

04/23/2023

Another Thunder from the porch at Noon’s

03/18/2023

Nice to see the utility people using my yard with zero notice…stay in the easement Town of Clarksville

02/01/2023

When the Town renamed Woerner Avenue to Main St, I think they said they didn't know the origin of the street name. Of course, since our family has been here since at least 1870, I knew that Frank Woerner was a grocer. Coincidence? Could be. Thanks to my ancestors for preserving these family history documents. Long live Noon's on Riverside!!

02/01/2023

William Noon making payments on the family homestead. Dated 1871

05/22/2022

I understand the Town of Clarksville has their field of dreams behind the flood wall, this will bring a lot of money to the community. What I do not agree with is as part of the New Downtown street grid plan is to extend York street through the Flood wall to East Riverside Drive.
They will spend unknown 100s of thousands to cut through the flood wall - if they can get the corp of engineers to agree. They will tear down Noon’s, of which their own Historic Preservation commission recognized as a historic place, to obtain the view from our porch (x in street grid pic). At one point I heard a Clarksville official say “we want a view when looking from S. Clark blvd to be a view of Louisville, inviting people to come down to the river front”

They will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and eliminate a Town historic place for a ”view” just because they want to…

05/21/2022

Another beautiful day

05/17/2022

Clarksville street grid for the new downtown still has a street going through Noon’s. Obviously, Clarksville Redevelopment doesn’t care about Clarksville history. Last week Historic Preservation commission recognizes as a historic place but redevelopment doesn’t care 🙄 a plan is a plan!

Thanks Town of Clarksville and the Clarksville Redevelopment Commission…..you show what matters to you.

05/15/2022

Another nice addition to the view when it is ready and installed will be the Rosie the Riveter Monument. Looks like it will be in front of the second and third parking space in Ashland Park, just at the right of the sidewalk in our view.
Thanks to the Clarksville Historic Preservation Commission for starting the campaign and the community for funding the monument.

05/13/2022

Received some recognition from the town Historic Preservation Commission. Will proudly be mounting on the house in the next couple of weeks.

2022 CLARKSVILLE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION
100-YEAR-OLD HOME RECOGNITION

421-423 East Riverside Drive
The Noon House - Circa 1861

This wooden duplex home was one of the barracks of the Civil War recruitment camp named 'Joe Holt'. The camp was organized in Clarksville in June of 1861 and occupied land along the riverfront just west of the Indiana State Prison. That area was then owned by Samuel Patterson, an early lessee of the prison and a cousin of Union General Lovell Rousseau of the "Louisville Legion". Because President Lincoln feared losing Kentucky from the Union, he sought land in Indiana, the closest free state to Kentucky, as the site of a Union recruitment camp. While not considered architecturally significant, its historical significance is colossal. It is possibly the only wooden structure remaining in Indiana that housed soldiers of the Civil War.

At the end of the war, the U. S. Army sold the land and buildings of the camp to Joseph Smith and Jacob Smyser, owners of the Ohio Falls Car Works and Smyser's Planing Mill. The wooden buildings, built as stores, barracks, officer's quarters and hospital buildings, were sold by them to individuals. In 1874, one of those buildings was sold to William and Bridget Noon. The Noon's were Irish from Galway, and they bought the building for their family home. William and Bridget raised their family at the house. Their son Michael and his wife Nola resided in the home and raised 7 children Michael Jr., Bud, Leo, Nola, Nellie, John and Martha.

The house was single family for 2 generations, and at some point, after 1941 the house was made into a duplex. It eventually became home to Leo Noon and John Noon. Leo an Army WWII veteran, retired from the Clarksville Fire Department after 19 years of service in 1971. Leo with his wife Ann Mueller, raised their son Ronald at 423. Ronald was a Vietnam Veteran. John Noon, a Marine WWII veteran resided at 421 until his death in 1989. Nellie was born in the house in 1911 and resided at 423 from 1978 until her death in 2007.

The home has been owned by 5 generations of the Noon family since 1874. The house is presently owned by Kristi Moe who is the great-great granddaughter of William and Bridget Noon, Kristi along with her husband Phillip Moe take loving care of the home and have no plans for the home to be sold outside the family.

04/25/2022

Hoping the utilities will be buried for Thunder next year…..thinking I should record from the roof and use a tripod

Thunder fireworks from Noon's