This image provides an aerial view of the demolition of the Andrew Jackson Hotel, ca. 1971, to make way for the James K. Polk Office Building, which contains the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and the Tennessee State Museum. Photographed by the...
Excerpts from the reminiscences of Roy C. Avery, recorded in June 1971 by Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery and Rev. William Dixon Gray. The recording is part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Avery recalls the boredom and...
Aladdin Industries building, located at 703-705 Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The company site was built in 1949 when they moved from Chicago to Nashville. Listed in the 1970 City Directory with Victor S. Johnson, Jr., President and...
A photograph of True Pentecostal Witnesses Church, formerly Foster Chapel Baptist Church, located at 936 Lebanon Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The Foster Chapel congregation was organized in 1901, and their church building was constructed in...
A postcard of Jubilee Hall at Fisk University. Completed in 1876, this was the first permanent building erected for the higher education of African Americans in the United States. The six story structure was designed by architect Steven D. Hatch...
A postcard of the Andrew Jackson Hotel. This hotel opened in August of 1925 on the east side of Memorial Plaza on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Deaderick Street. The massive brick structure boasted 400 guest rooms. During the years it was in...
A photograph of the Broadcast Music, Inc. building, located at 710 16th Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) was officially declared operational on Feb. 15, 1940 in New York City. The company was established by radio...
A photograph of the historic Glen Leven home, located in Nashville, Tennessee at 4000 Franklin Road, as it appeared circa 1973. This ancestral home of the Thompson family was built in 1857 by John Thompson, son of Thomas Thompson, the pioneer...
A photograph of the Stahlman Building, located at Third Avenue North and Union Street (211 Union Street), circa April 2, 1959. The twelve-story tall structure was built by newspaper publisher Major E. B. Stahlman. It was considered one of the...
A circa 1996 photograph of President Andrew Jackson's Tomb at the Hermitage, the handsome old estate of "Old Hickory," the seventh President of the United States. Andrew Jackson died in 1845 at the Hermitage reaching the age of 77. His burial was...
A photograph of a group of men from American Baptist Theological Seminary. The American Baptist Theological Seminary was originally a training facility for African American Baptist ministers. The men in the photograph are standing in front of...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “three pickets kept vigil before the Andrew Jackson hotel today after 185 employees walked out on strike.” The Andrew Jackson hotel opened in August of 1924 on the east side of Memorial...
The historic Glen Leven home of the Thompson family built in 1857 by John Thompson, son of Thomas Thompson, the pioneer settler who signed the 1780 Cumberland Compact at Fort Nashborough and as a Revolutionary War soldier received a land grant...
The Broadcast Music, Inc. building, located at 710 16th Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) was officially declared operational on February 15, 1940 in New York City. The company was established by radio executives in...
The Herbert family residences, located in Nashville, Tennessee. The original architectural structure, located at 611 Lynnbrook Road, was the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Scudday Herbert (1st photograph, circa 1937), then from July 1971 Mr. and Mrs....
The home residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Scudday Herbert, located at 611 Lynnbrook Road, in Nashville, Tennessee. This was their family residence from October 1932 through July 1971. These digital reproductions were scanned from the scrapbook of...
The home residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Scudday Herbert, located at 611 Lynnbrook Road, in Nashville, Tennessee. This was their family residence from October 1932 through July 1971. These digital reproductions were scanned from the scrapbook of...
The home residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Scudday Herbert, located at 611 Lynnbrook Road, in Nashville, Tennessee. This was their family residence from October 1932 through July 1971. These digital reproductions were scanned from the scrapbook of...
A photograph of Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church. Formerly Twelfth Avenue Church of Christ, Abyssinia Missionary Baptist sits at 1810 Twelfth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The current Baptist congregation gained the church in 1971. ...
A photograph of Sherith Israel, an Orthodox synagogue in Nashville, Tennessee. The first home for this congregation was in a member's home at 118 Fifth Avenue North, next to the Ryman. In 1920, the building was razed, and a new Fifth Avenue...