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 postcard of an aerial view of downtown Nashville in 1912. Identifiable buildings include the State Capitol, Polk-Wautauga (sic) Apartments, Hermitage Hotel, Stahlman Building, First National Bank, Methodist Publishing House, and the Custom House...
A photograph of coupled Ionic columns and archway of the Hermitage Hotel, 231 Sixth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. The building was designed by Tennessee architect J. Edwin Carpenter (1867-1932) in the Beaux Arts style and built between 1908...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nell Barnes, conducted on 7 August 1982 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Barnes discusses attending the opening of the Hermitage Hotel in downtown...
A photograph of James Melton, the noted Metropolitan Opera tenor pictured in front of the Hermitage Hotel at 231 6th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. James Melton was in town to speak at his alma mater Vanderbilt and visit old friends. In the...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion...