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 West End United Methodist Church located at 2200 West End Avenue in the West End neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. This church was the third building for the congregation that organized in 1869. Donald W. Southgate was the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader James Stephen (Steve) Turner, conducted on 21 June 2006 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History...
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 Galilee Missionary Baptist Church located at 2021 Herman Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was founded in 1922, while the building was completed in 1940. The exterior walls are made of red brick. The windows are...
A photograph of Hall Memorial Missionary Baptist Church historically located at 5990 Mt. View Road in Antioch, Tennessee. Although most recently recorded as having a 6005 Mt. View Road address, this church is no longer listed in the Nashville City...
A photograph of Jackson Park Church of Christ located at 4103 Gallatin Pike. Originally the address was listed as 4101 Gallatin Road. The congregation was founded in 1932 by 75 members meeting in a home on Greenland Avenue. Ten months later they...
A photograph of Jordonia United Methodist Church located at 4225 Cato Road in Nashville, Tennessee. Built in approximately 1920, this church was nominated for an Architectural Award in the 1975 awards program sponsored by Metropolitan Historical...
A photograph of King Temple Church of God in Christ. The survey indicates that this church is located at 1301 Lischey Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee; however, all city directories list the address as being 1310 Lischey Avenue. The cornerstone...
A photograph of Mt. Zion Baptist Church located at 1112 Jefferson Street in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the survey this church's congregation was founded in 1866, while the building was constructed in 1905. The foundation is made of rough...
A postcard showing the hustle and bustle of Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1940. Pedestrians line the sidewalks, while the streets are busy with vehicles, including the Cedar - Jo Johnston bus. During the Great Depression and World...
A two-page typewritten letter by Jessie Wallace to her mother, Mrs. C.M. (Lorine) Wallace of Ames, Iowa. Jessie grew up in Oklahoma and her family moved to Iowa during the Depression. During World War II, Jessie Wallace (later McNutt) served in...
A photograph of Progressive Missionary Baptist Church located at 1419 Twelfth Avenue South. The congregation was founded in 1936 while the building construction was finished in 1941. The church has been listed as Progressive Missionary Baptist...
A photograph of Ray of Hope Community Church, formerly Meridian Street Methodist Church, located at 901 Meridian Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The rear part of the building was completed in 1925, while the front part, now the current sanctuary,...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Wendell J. Gore, conducted on 24 October 2007 by StoryCorps facilitator Kate Wingate at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville...
Named after Alonzo Napier, brother of J.C. Napier, this original Napier school building, seen here from the side, opened mid way through the 1897-1898 school year. It was located at the corner of Robinson and Fairfield. Completion of the school...
Sixteen excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman Douglas B. Havron, conducted on 4 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. In these clips...
A photograph of St. Timothy Missionary Baptist Church located at 2830 Clifton Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The building's shallow foundation is slab-on-grade. The exterior walls are made of cinder block. The roof is made of shingles. There...
A photograph of Shelby Avenue Church of Christ located at 1700 Shelby Avenue in the East Nashville neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone, the original building was erected in 1933, while the congregation was organized...
A photograph of Shiloh Baptist Church located at 1117 Second Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. This building was erected in the late 1940s, while the congregation was organized around 1902. The original site of the church was at Rolling Mill...