Construction of the Maxwell House Hotel was not completed when Federal troops seized the building for use as a prison for Confederate soldiers. The cornerstone was laid in August of 1860, and the formal opening was in September of 1869. Isaiah...
This booklet was published for new employees at the Nashville Bridge Company during the time of World War II. The beginning includes a brief history of the company during which it is explained that although the normal operations include...
A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Seventh Avenue Garage. Cited in the 1941 City Directory as “South’s Finest One Stop Service Garage, 600 car capacity, gas, oil, tires and tubes, brake work our specialty, park inside,...
A photograph of the YMCA Community Action Project building located at 1021 Russell Street in the East Nashville neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. This structure was originally built as Russell Street Presbyterian Church in about 1910 and has...
A postcard of the Nashville Young Men's Christian Association, an eight-story, fire proof building, located at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Union Street and Capitol boulevard in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Completed in 1912, the Y. M. C. A....
A photograph of Word of Faith Christian Center located at 2635 Nolensville Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. Formerly Grandview Baptist Church, the address was originally listed in the city directory as 2641 Nolensville Road. Grandview Baptist was...
A photograph of Woodland Street Presbyterian Church located at 211 North Eleventh Street in the East Nashville neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. Woodland Presbyterian Church was organized in 1858 as the First Presbyterian Church of Edgefield...
A photograph of Woodbine United Methodist Church located at 2621 Nolensville Road in Nashville, Tennessee. This church building was constructed in 1915. The congregation was organized in 1875. The foundation is made of stone. The exterior walls...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the death of two men who fell from scaffolding. The caption reads: “Two men traveled the course of this white line to their death when scaffolding gave way as they chinked cracks in the...
A photograph of Westminster Presbyterian Church located at 3900 West End Avenue in the West End neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1938 to serve the congregation of Moore Memorial Church, which started out as a small...
A photograph of West Nashville United Methodist Church located at 4710 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was organized as the West Side Mission around 1880. Their first chapel was built under the name of Clifton Methodist...
A photograph of West Nashville Baptist Church located at 5303 Pennsylvania Avenue in the West Nashville neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. This church first appears in the city directories in 1950. In 1977 the address changed to 5305...
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...
A photograph of West End Synagogue located at 3810 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Constructed in 1950, this synagogue is home to Nashville's second oldest Jewish congregation which was established in 1874 by 20 Jewish families. The...
A photograph of West End Church of Christ located at 3532 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation formed in 1943 while the church was constructed in 1948. The architect was Donald Southgate, a prominent Nashville church designer...
The Watkins Institute in downtown Nashville at 605 Church Street, circa May, 1942. The Watkins Institute was founded by Samuel Watkins (1794-1880) through a gift in his will to establish a school for adult education. This school was located at...
A postcard of Ward-Belmont, showing an academic building and Pembroke Hall in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1913, Belmont College, (1890) and Ward Seminary (1865), were consolidated, forming the Ward-Belmont College, a prestigious women's finishing...
A postcard of the War Memorial Building on Memorial Plaza stretching between Union Street and Charlotte Avenue, and from Sixth to Seventh Avenues. This building was built by the state, county and city in 1925 to honor the Tennesseans who served in...
A postcard of the War Memorial Building on Memorial Plaza stretching between Union Street and Charlotte Avenue, and from Sixth to Seventh Avenues. This building was built by the state, county and city in 1925 to honor the Tennesseans who served in...
Aerial views of the Veterans Administration Hospital building in Nashville, Tennessee, August 28th, 1962, located at Twenty-fourth Avenue S and Garland. Vanderbilt University’s Morgan Towers can be seen in the foreground. Forms part of Record...