Welcome to Historic Nelligan Hall 
Home OF the North End Social Club
& the Nothing ART Collective
Built in 1880, historic Nelligan Hall began as the Globe Vaudeville Theater, in the '30s was adopted as Democratic Campaign Headquarters and longtime home to the North End Social Club. The 4,309 sf building, located in the Portland Neighborhood (directly adjacent to the Falls of the Ohio and Shippingport Island) is near Fort-on-Shore, Louisville's first settlement founded by General George Rogers Clark in 1778.
Over the last 5 years, we (Louisville artists Aron Conaway and Hallie Jones) have been renovating and giving the building a whole new life. We bought shares in Nelligan Hall in 2005 with several other neighborhood residents, intending to restore the hall to its original prominant role in the community. However after a couple of slow years in business and the tragic LAVA House warehouse fire in 2008, we were left without a studio and so decided to buy out our partners. We have been working hard over the last year and a half to convert Nelligan Hall into an artists' collective space with other artists.
Nelligan features 9 studios, a loft apartment, a stage, DJ booth, old bar, commercial kitchen, tools and community space. Nelligan, two other art spaces, and a few small businesses are working hard in Portland (Louisville's oldest, most blighted urban neighborhood) and setting the stage for neighborhood revitalization.
CURRENT RESIDENT ARTISTS:
- Kent Getsinger
- Cassandra Barnes
- Jon Cook
- Hallie Jones
- Aron Conaway
- Jen 'Cricket' Bidwell
- Jae Grady
- Derek Gregory
- Damon Westenhofer
- Corey Riley
- The Knuckleheads
- Aron Conaway
- Hallie Jones
- Jae Grady
- Kent Getsinger
- Chris Chappell
- Ryan Scarborough
- Cory Riley
- and more
NELLIGAN HALL ARTIST FRIENDS:
The NOTHING Art Collective:
Jack Nelligan and the North End Social Club Crest
