A scene from the Maxwell House hotel fire in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on June 4th, 1958. This grand hotel was located at the corner of Fourth and Church, completed in 1859. This was the first of two fires, occurring in 1958. No injuries...
A scene from the Maxwell House hotel fire in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on June 4th, 1958. This grand hotel was located at the corner of Fourth and Church, completed in 1859. This was the first of two fires, occurring in 1958. No injuries...
Pictured: Young boys and a teacher posing with their scrap collection, at an unidentified school building in Middle Tennessee, circa October, 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local...
Pictured: Young school students at their scrap collection, at an unidentified brick school building in Middle Tennessee. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw...
A photograph of the Elliston-Buford house, at 2300 Elliston Place, Nashville, Tennessee. The residence, originally built circa 1881, was the home of Lizinka Elliston Buford and husband Edward L. Buford, a Nashville businessman and Confederate War...
Front of postcard sending Greetings from Nashville, and showing several buildings of note, with the Parthenon and Lake of Centennial Park pictured in the center panel. The other buildings depicted on the postcard are (from left to right) Andrew...
A color postcard showing a bird's eye view of Nashville from Polk Flats. Polk Flats was an apartment building in Nashville, situated in between seventh and eighth avenues in the heart of downtown. The complex was built in the 1890s to take the...
A color postcard of the First National Bank Building on the corner of Third Avenue and Union Street in downtown Nashville. The First National Bank of Nashville was originally organized in 1863. Forms part of the Nashville Room Postcard...
A photograph of Belmont Baptist Church located on the corner of 12th Avenue South and Beechwood Avenue. Two men stand outside of the entrance. The church was built in 1906 as Belmont Baptist Church. In 1921 the church was sold and became Waverly...
An undated photograph of the interior main entrance to the Omohundro Water Filtration Plant, of the Omohundro Water Filtration Complex District in Nashville, Tennessee, located at 1400 Pumping Station Road across the Cumberland River from Shelby...
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 Seventeenth Street Christian Church. This church was located at 1700 Fatherland Street in East Nashville. The foundation material is rough cut stone blocks. Exterior walls are red brick. The roof is comprised of tar...
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 Arlington United Methodist Church located at 1360 Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was started as a Sunday school for neighborhood children in 1873. Later that year children and adults began meeting for...
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 Belmont United Methodist Church located at 2007 Acklen Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Belmont United Methodist underwent extensive remodeling during a $1.6 million renovation that started in 1987 and was completed in 1991. The...
A photograph of Blakemore Primitive Baptist Church. According to the survey form completed for the Sacred Sites Survey Project, this church is located at 2411 Blakemore Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, and was constructed in 1941. The foundation is...
A photograph of Braden United Methodist Church located at 803 Main Street, Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1942, the same year their congregation was founded. This building has never been used by other congregations. The church's...
A photograph of Calvary United Methodist Church located at 3701 Hillsboro Road. This church was built in the 1940s. The exterior walls are red brick with cross gables near the rear of the building. There is a low gabled roof made of copper sheet...
A photograph of the Cathedral of the Incarnation located at 2015 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. The construction of this Catholic church began in 1907. Bishop Byrne first built the rectory, then the school (St. Albert Hall), and finally...