Excerpt from an oral history interview with Leigh Spruill conducted on May 26, 2011 by Annette Pilcher as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Reverend Leigh Spruill, rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church, describes the flooding of...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
A photograph of Gordon Memorial United Methodist Church, historically located at 2336 Herman Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The current city directory lists the address as 2334 Herman Street. With the congregation originally founded in 1903,...
A photograph of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Nashville's second-oldest Episcopal church building. This church is located at 615 Sixth Avenue South. The congregation was founded in 1852 as a free church, open to all people. Holy Trinity evolved...
A photograph of Monroe Street United Methodist Church located at 700 Monroe Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1906 as indicated on its cornerstone; however, the congregation was first founded in 1868. This brick church is...
A photograph of Ocean Way Nashville Recording Studios, formerly Church of the Advent, an Episcopal church located at 1200 Seventeenth Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was formed in 1857 and the church building was erected in...
A photograph of Phillips-Robinson Funeral Home, formerly St. John's Episcopal Church, located at 1700 Hadley Avenue in the Historic Old Hickory Village in Old Hickory, Tennessee. The family-owned and operated business moved into the historic...
A photograph of St. Ann's Episcopal Church located at 419 Woodland Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The original historic 1880's era Victorian building was destroyed in a tornado in 1998, but the new building was built on the same site as the old...
A photograph of St. Augustine Episcopal Chapel located at 200 Twenty-fourth Avenue South on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. This West End neighborhood chapel was started in the mid 1950s with seed money from nearby St....
A photograph of St. George's Episcopal Church located at 4715 Harding Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The cornerstone was laid in 1949. Donald W. Southgate was the architect for the project, and he designed the building in a Greek Revival style. ...
A photograph of St. James African Episcopal Methodist Church located at 1501 Straightway Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was founded in 1868. The current church was built in 1968. The foundation is made of bricks. The exterior...
A photograph of St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church located at 901 Fortieth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone the church was erected in 1926. The one-story church has a rough cut stone block foundation. ...
A photograph of Salem African Methodist Episcopal Church formerly located at 1800 Fourth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation organized in 1867 according to the cornerstone. The exterior walls were red brick. The roof was made...
A photograph of St. Phillip's African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church located at 904 Thirty-third Avenue North. According to the original cornerstone, this church was erected in 1936. The foundation is rough cut stone. The exterior walls are...
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 photograph of Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church located at 1264 Third Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. The Trinity AME congregation was established in 1890, while the building was erected in 1919. The foundation is concrete. The...
A photograph of United Primitive Baptist Church located at 2911 Clifton Road (now Avenue) in Nashville, Tennessee. Now reportedly being used as a duplex home with barbecue smoking equipment in the back, this structure began as St. Phillip's...