:Nando Felty Saloon

{{short description|Historic building in Ashland, Kentucky}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Nando Felty Saloon

| nrhp_type =

| image = File:Nando Felty Saloon site.jpg

| caption = Former site of the saloon. Levee wall protecting vs. flooding of the Ohio River at rear.

| location= 1500 Front St., Ashland, Kentucky

|coordinates={{coord|38|28|51|N|82|38|21|W|source:NOTNRIS2013a|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Kentucky#USA

| built = 1895

| added = July 3, 1979

| area =

| mpsub = [https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64000200.pdf Ashland MRA]

| refnum = 79003557{{NRISref|version=2013a}}

}}

The Nando Felty Saloon, at 1500 Front St. in Ashland, Kentucky, was built in 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=79003557}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Felty, Nando, Saloon |publisher=National Park Service|author= |date= |accessdate=March 14, 2019}} With {{NRHP url|id=79003557|photos=y|title=accompanying two photos from 1977}}{{cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64000200.pdf |title=Historic Resources of Ashland |author=Edward A. Chappell |date=April 20, 1978 |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=March 14, 2019}}

It was a three-story three-bay brick commercial building, overlooking the Ohio River and railroad tracks. Its first-floor windows were filled with brickwork later, but the facade had surviving cast-iron pilasters with "serpentine relief", a motif "formerly also found on the facade of the City

Market building on Greenup Avenue, demolished in 1978." The facades also had pressed metal Italianate-style cornices and window hoods. The building's southwest wall was painted with "several fine early commercial graphics, including 'LET US BE YOUR TAILORS; THE UNITED WOOLEN MILLS CO; TAILORS TO THE MASSES.'"

The building served as a saloon and a boarding house. It was significant as "a prominent Ashland social center until Prohibition. Barry and Johnson,

John Cobs, and Nando Felty were successive owners of a saloon here. This is one of the most substantial nineteenth-century commercial buildings in Ashland, and is the only surviving early hostel building."