A photograph of the old Elks Lodge no. 72, located at 310 6th Avenue North, bordered by Deaderick Street, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The lodge was home to the Elks, beginning in 1904, serving numerous community functions and charity projects...
A color postcard of the Golf and Country Club in Nashville, Tennessee. The first nine holes were completed by the summer of 1901. Fields were cut by mule-drawn mowers to prepare for the holes. The first clubhouse, as seen on the postcard, was...
A photograph of the Eighth Avenue Church of Christ, located at 1217 Eighth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was established in 1887, and the church was built in1942 as indicated on the cornerstone. The foundation is...
A photograph of Eighth Street Missionary Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Built by Reverend R.L. Watson in 1945, this church building initially housed First Emmanuel Church. The Eighth Street Baptist Church was organized in 1913. In the...
A photograph of the former Twenty-seventh Avenue Church of Christ located at 526 Twenty-seventh Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee. The foundation is a concrete block. The exterior walls are made of red brick. The roof is made of asphalt...
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 Belle Meade United Primitive Baptist Church, located at 1018 Forty Second Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1965, while the congregation was formed in 1891. The denomination of the congregation is...
A photograph of the former Craig Memorial Methodist Church located at 530 Twenty-sixth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. This building has seen many uses over time since its construction in 1926. Originally the structure served as the church...
A photograph of the former Church of Christ located at Third Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee. This church went through many name changes over the years. In the 1960s the name changed to Third Avenue Church of Christ. In the 1990s the...
A photograph of Clark Memorial Methodist Church, Nashville's oldest African American Church. Located now at 1015 Fourteenth Avenue North, Clark Memorial has had several name and location changes throughout the years. The congregation came into...
A photograph of Cleveland Street Baptist Church located at 608 Cleveland Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was founded in 1889 as a small mission known as North Street Baptist Church. It was started by the Reverend William Bailey in a...
A photograph of Lockeland Baptist Church located at 1601 Holly Street, Nashville, Tennessee. The Lockeland Baptist congregation was founded in 1903, and according to the Sacred Sites Project survey form, the main church was built in 1929. A...
A postcard of the Hermitage Club in Nashville, Tennessee. The Hermitage Club building was first a downtown residence in between Church and Union Streets at 233 Sixth Avenue North, then called High Street. The builder of the house was Confederate...
A postcard of the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home in Nashville Tennessee. The home was located on White's Creek Pike, six miles north of Nashville. It was established around 1892. Today several surviving historic structures stand at the former...
A postcard of the Bijou Theatre located at 423 Fourth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. This 1624 seat theatre was erected in 1904 on the site of a previous theatre that had burned two years prior. Events included live stage performances and...
A photograph of the Church of God of Prophecy located at 1105 Fifty-first Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. According to the Sacred Sites Survey form, this church was built in 1950. The address stops appearing in the Nashville City Directories...
A postcard of the Scottish Rite Temple, also known as the Masonic Temple, located at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee (100 Seventh Avenue North). The building's cornerstone was laid in 1914 and construction was...
A postcard of the Tennessee Supreme Court Building located at 401 Seventh Avenue North, adjacent to the Capitol and War Memorial Building. This structure exemplifies a Greek Doric design that was very modern for its time. Built of Tennessee...
A postcard of the Tennessee Supreme Court Building located at 401 Seventh Avenue North, adjacent to the Capitol and War Memorial Building. This structure exemplifies a Greek Doric design that was very modern for its time. Built of Tennessee...
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...