Owensboro, Barton and Stanley

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There have been many previous postings about Stanley, including a bunch of pictures from 2007 posted here. It looks about the same.

Stanley is a few miles outside of Owensboro, to the west, on the way to Henderson. The whole town is not much more than a wide-spot in the road, maybe 25 buildings, so the old distillery really sticks out.

According to Cecil, it was built in 1960 by Ben and Tom Medley, after they sold Medley. They called it Old Stanley. They had two large, red brick buildings, both still standing. One contained the distillery, dry house and bottling house, the other was a small (5,000 barrel) warehouse. It looks like someone has been living in the distillery building. There was an American flag on the flag pole. The property is neither fenced nor even posted. A pic is below.

The two big distillery clusters in Owensboro are both close to downtown, on the river, one just east of downtown and the other just west. CMDK and two other distillery sites are just west of downtown. In almost the exact same location, except east, is the Barton site recently sold to Sazerac.

It is best known as the Glenmore Distillery. The distillery itself is long gone, but there are seven aging warehouses and a large bottling house and finished goods warehouse. They are on either side of E. 4th Street, which is the main drag parallel to the river. The bottling house is north of 4th Street, the warehouses are just south, on a hill. The part of the property immediately adjacent to 4th Street is a parking lot, presumably for employees.

The first two rows of three warehouses each look practically brand new, as in newly sided. The one furthest south is badly damaged and probably empty. The two pictures show the same two warehouses from reverse angles.

I believe there was once a second distillery at this location, but it wasn't immediately apparent where. My inspection was pretty cursory as I didn't have a lot of time.