A photograph of McKendree Methodist Church located at 523 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee. The church was named for Bishop William McKendree, the first American Methodist bishop. This is the fourth McKendree Methodist Church building to occupy...
A photograph of Nashville First Church of the Nazarene located in East Nashville at 510 Woodland Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1887 as the Woodland Street Presbyterian Church. The edifice was severely damaged in the...
An excerpt from a public meeting with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley conducted on April 5, 1968. Meeting held to discuss Vanderbilt student protest that took place on April 4. The main issue discussed was the calling of the National...
An invitation from Governor Prentice Cooper, Judge Litton Hickman, and Mayor Thomas L. Cummings, to the formal dedication of the Nashville division of Vultee Aircraft Inc., to take place on May 4th, 1941. The Vultee logo accompanies the state flag...
A photograph of the land where the Old Hamilton Methodist Church used to stand near Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. In its place is a historic marker which reads: "Old Hamilton Methodist Church - 1834-1987 - Established in 1834 and...
Excerpts from an interview with architectural historian John Kiser, conducted on 10 April 1978 by Deborah Cooney as part of the Historic Nashville Inc. Oral History project. The interview took place in John Kisers' historic home, the Hays-Kiser...
A photograph of West Nashville Free Will Baptist Church located at 5600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the West Nashville neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. The church was built in 1915 as the United Brethren Church. In the mid 1920s the name changed...
Meridian Street Methodist Church was organized in 1924 with the consolidation of two churches, McFerrin Memorial, located on Meridian Street in North Edgefield, and Alex Erwin Church located where Douglas Ave. intersects Dickerson Road. The...
A photograph of Councilman Charles R. Bramwell with unidentified city official and city worker beneath Nashville City limit sign. By this time, large portions of Davidson County had been annexed by the City of Nashville. The day this photo was...
A photograph of Mayor Beverly Briley speaking at his inauguration on April 1, 1963. Briley served as the first mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. His inauguration took place on the same day that the...
A listing of speakers and lecture hours are given for a lecture session taking place at the University of Nashville Medical Department. Formerly Davidson Academy and Cumberland College, the University of Nashville was so named at the suggestion of...
A photograph of the Nashville Vols baseball team celebrating after a win in their club house. This photograph ran in the 22 September 1948 edition of the Nashville Banner with the caption, "Vols Hope To Rubber Stamp This Scene Soon - Twice now, the...
A photograph of the Stagecrafters theater group. Formed in 1906, the Stagecrafters were the earliest of Nashville's local theater groups. Their membership was limited to 50 drama devotees. The purpose was to "develop talent among amateurs and to...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
An exterior view showing the Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library, in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1916. This branch library opened at the southeast corner of Twelfth Avenue North and Hynes Street on February 10, 1916. It was among the four...
Advertisement for Skalowski's Confectionery Parlor, located at 217 Fifth Ave. North in downtown Nashville. Advertisement reads: "America's Handsomest Confectionery Parlor" and promotes the ice cream parlor as "Nashville's Beauty Spot" and "A...
A photograph of the old Felix Compton house, located at the northeast corner of Hillsboro Road and Harding Place in Nashville, Tennessee, 5050 Hillsboro Road (Hillsboro Pike), when it was the A.M Burton family residence, circa 1973. This...
A postcard of the tomb of James Knox Polk (1795-1849), the 11th president of the United States. Designed by William Strickland, the tomb was originally located in the garden at Polk Place, a mansion in downtown Nashville, where the former president...
A portrait photograph of Elizabeth Burgess Buford, a prominent educator and founder of Buford College, a school for young ladies that was first established in Clarksville, Tennessee in the 1880s and subsequently moved to Nashville in 1901. This...