Oral history excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman, former State Representative for the 53rd District, civic leader and Davidson County, Tennessee Clerk John H. Arriola, Jr., conducted on 05 June 2007 by James T. Havron...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville doctor and urologist Henry L. Douglass, conducted on 11 November 1981 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Douglass discusses working as an...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville doctor and urologist Henry L. Douglass, conducted on 11 November 1981 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Douglass recounts a story about a Barnum...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville doctor and urologist Henry L. Douglass, conducted on 11 November 1981 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Douglass discusses the street cars in...
The building of the Eighth Avenue South Reservoir, located on Kirkpatrick Hill, was begun in 1887 and was completed in 1889. With an outside wall height of 33.75 feet and a perimeter at the top of the outside wall running 1,746 feet, the reservoir...
A Nashville Police Officer directs traffic. Along the north side of Broad Street, Hume Fogg High School and the Masonic Building can be seen, and the Customs House and First Baptist Church are visible along the south side of the street. 35 mm
A two page letter to Henry C. Hibbs from Arch Trawick written on Jersey Farms Milk Service stationary. The letter reads like a poem in the form of a request for the design of an elaborate building that would be "…Stocked with books of sages/...
The Holiday Inn on James Robertson Parkway at 8th Avenue North opened in January of 1960. The one million dollar, one hundred unit hotel was north of the Tennessee State Capitol building. 3 x 4 in.
A photograph of Saint Ann's Catholic Church located at 5101 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The parish was founded in 1917 as Saint Peter's Catholic Mission. In these early days the congregation met once a month for mass in an already...
A photograph of St. Patrick Catholic Church located at 1219 Second Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was built in 1890 to serve the mainly Irish neighborhood, and so was named after St. Patrick. The red brick structure was...
A photograph of St. Paul's Lutheran Church located at 1628 Eighth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was built in 1936 and appeared in city directories with an original address of 1630 Eighth Avenue North. The foundation is made of...
Located on the corner of 8th Avenue South and Chestnut Street, Fall school was named for Philip Slater Fall, a prominent Nashville businessman and member of the Board of Education from 1865-1867. Since the school had no bell, a flag was put out in...
A photograph of the Tennessee Teachers Credit Union located at 1400 Eighth Avenue South in Nashville, Tenn. The building originally was constructed as a church for the South End Methodist Episcopal congregation in 1910. An education wing was...
A postcard of the Post Office and Custom House located on Broadway, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The original building, which can be identified by its tower, was started in 1875 and completed in 1882. An addition which doubled the amount of...
A postcard of the Nashville Reservoir located on Eighth Avenue South. An electric streetcar is pictured on the road. In 1889 the city built the reservoir on top of Kirkpatrick Hill on the site of Fort Casino just south of downtown Nashville. The...
A postcard of St. Cecelia Academy, a private, all-girls Roman Catholic high school founded in 1860 by the Dominican Sisters. This building is located in North Nashville at Eighth Avenue North and Clay Street. The original Victorian-style building...
A 1956 shopping and visitors map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The streets are labeled with address numbers and building names. A straight listing of prominent buildings and stores by category is also included on the lower portion of the...
A copy photograph of Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies, a prestigious school for girls founded in 1865 by Dr. William E. Ward, a Presbyterian Minister and his wife, Eliza Hudson Ward. The school was located at 15 South Spruce Street (Eighth Avenue)...