W. S. Riddle Notion Company, Sam Lapidus Clothing Company, Southern Coat and Dress Company, Golden Art Hosiery, and Everett Beasley Inc. were among the buildings that once delineated the outer perimeter of the public square in Nashville, Tennessee....
Views of the Shelby Street Bridge, spanning the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, May 3rd, 1961. The Nashville Bridge Company is pictured in the background. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 3...
Views of Nashville Municipal Airport and the City-State Administration Building, circa 1950. Nashville's airport officially opened in 1937 as Berry Field, in honor of Colonel Harry S. Berry, the state administrator of the Works Progress...
View of façade of the Hamilton Parks residence, located at 1706 West End Avenue, in Nashville, Tennessee. This architectural structure is non-extant, having been demolished circa the 1960's. It was originally the family home of Hamilton Parks, a...
Two photographs showing an apartment building above the Hooberry’s Book Store at 140 Fifth Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with the Country Kitchen restaurant, and some vacant spaces. The 1949 City Directory cites the Clifton...
Travellers Rest gained its name from the fact of the many guests it has entertained. John Overton, afterward Justice of the Supreme Court, came from Virginia in 1793 and built a two-room log house on the site of the present building. He was one of...
This was the elegant home “Fairview,” of Mrs. Wilbur F. Foster and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Foster, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. The home was later destroyed by fire circa 1933 and was rebuilt on the same...
This was the elegant home “Fairview,” of Mrs. Wilbur F. Foster and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Foster, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. The home was later destroyed by fire circa 1933 and was rebuilt on the same...
This was the elegant home “Fairview,” of Mrs. Wilbur F. Foster and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Foster, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. The home was later destroyed by fire circa 1933 and was rebuilt on the same...
This program from the 1923 Annual Banquet of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, held at the Centennial Club, boasts a number of distinguished guests, including architect and past president Henry C. Hibbs. Henry C. Hibbs...
This program from the 1923 Annual Banquet of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, held at the Centennial Club, boasts a number of distinguished guests, including architect and past president Henry C. Hibbs. Henry C. Hibbs...
This program from the 1923 Annual Banquet of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, held at the Centennial Club, boasts a number of distinguished guests, including architect and past president Henry C. Hibbs. Henry C. Hibbs...
This picture was taken at the elegant home of Mrs. Wilbur F. Foster and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Foster, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane. The home was later destroyed by fire circa 1933 and was rebuilt the same site. These digital...
This picture was taken at the elegant home of Mrs. Wilbur F. Foster and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Foster, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. The home was later destroyed by fire circa 1933 and was rebuilt on the same...
This picture was taken at the elegant home of Mrs. Wilbur F. Foster and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Foster, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. The home was later destroyed by fire circa 1933 and was rebuilt on the same...
This photograph, circa 1935, features a fleet of Nashville Police cars and officers in front of the War Memorial Building in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the 1935 Nashville City Directory: "Nashville has one of the most competent police...
This nighttime scene of Sixth Avenue North highlights Davitt's men's clothing, The Hermitage Hotel Marquee, which announces Glenn Bainbridge's run for Mayor, and the Knickerbocker Theater Marquee in the background. 35 mm
This Nashville cabin probably belonged to the Foster family. It was located in “the former barnyard, now the corner of Bandywood and Abbott Martin” as noted in the family scrapbook. These digital reproductions were scanned from the scrapbook...
This monument features a statue by George Julian Zolnay of the Confederate boy hero, Sam Davis. The statue dressed in a Confederate uniform is seated on a rock and holding his rifle in one hand with its butt resting on the ground. The base of the...
This monument features a statue by George Julian Zolnay of the Confederate boy hero, Sam Davis. The statue dressed in a Confederate uniform is seated on a rock and holding his rifle in one hand with its butt resting on the ground. The base of the...