An excerpt from an oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 09 February 1981 and the 13 February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Avery, the...
The Nashville Municipal Auditorium, which opened in October of 1962, is located on James Robertson Parkway. Designed by Marr and Holman, the auditorium has three levels and seats 10,550 people. This view shows Municipal Auditorium under...
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.
First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, was organized in the 1840's when African American members of the First Baptist Church decided to start their own separate church under the leadership of Pastor Nelson Merry. The first meeting house, erected in...
A photograph of the congregation from Kayne Avenue Baptist Church standing outside. This African American church was located on Twelfth Avenue South, across from the Carter-Lawrence School. When the building burned down it was replaced by a new...
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 photograph of "a view of the tavern stables, built more than a hundred years ago…Originally a tavern on the stage line running East and West from Nashville through Charlotte. Part of the stable building on the East side was the original stable....
A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. The drawing...
28; Northeast; 57; 10.0x20.0; *Can't find the deed, but according to the Plat book this lot is owned by a Robertson, Duncan.; Robertson, C. 1771-1834; Robertson, Duncan 1771-1833; Robertson, William 1799-1822
29; Northeast; 37; 10.0x20.0; *Can't find the deed,but according to the Plat book this lot was woned by a General James Robertson.; Robertson, Gen. James 1741-1814; Robertson, Charlotte 1755-1843; Robertson, Felix 1781-1865; Robertson, Lydia...
A captioned photo, from the Nashville Times (1940), about students of the Robertson Academy. The caption reads: “A novel event Friday evening will be the revue … at Robertson Academy, in which students in the school will impersonate their...
Pictured: A big crowd welcoming the arrival of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other dignitaries at the train station, in Nashville, Tennessee, for the funeral of Congressman Joseph Wellington “Jo” Byrns, Sr. in Nashville, Tennessee. Bryns...