A copy photograph of an 1890's gymnastics class of young female students at Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies in Nashville, Tennessee. The photograph shows Mary Louise and Sadie Warner (later Mrs. William Mallison and Mrs. George Frazier) on the gym...
A copy photograph of Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies, a prestigious school for girls founded in 1865 by Dr. William E. Ward, a Presbyterian Minister and his wife, Eliza Hudson Ward. The school was located at 15 South Spruce Street (Eighth Avenue)...
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. This drawing...
A photograph of a church referred to as the House of God, an African American Pentecostal denomination also known as the Church of the Living God. The full name used on the front entrance signage reads: The House of God Which is the Church of the...
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 Baptist Church located at 101 Bowling Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. The church was built sometime in the 1940s. According to the cornerstone the congregation was founded in 1906. The exterior walls of this church are red...
A photograph of Cleveland Street Baptist Church located at 608 Cleveland Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was founded in 1889 as a small mission known as North Street Baptist Church. It was started by the Reverend William Bailey in a...
A photograph of Ephesian Primitive Baptist Church located at 1421 Twenty-first Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. Earlier city directories list the address as 1417 Twenty-first Avenue. The congregation was founded in 1934, the same year the...
A photograph of Fanning Orphan School, popularly known as Fanning College. The school was chartered in 1881 and opened in 1884. This non-extant school was located about five miles from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on Couchville Pike (in the...
A photograph of First Baptist Church Capitol Hill. Originally called First Colored Baptist Church, this African American church was founded by Reverend Nelson Merry in 1865. The church sprang from the First Colored Baptist Mission, a group of...
A photograph of First Baptist Church East Nashville. This African American church was founded in 1866 by the Reverend Randall B. Vandavall, a slave born on March 23, 1832 at Neely's Bend. In the early years, the church was called Vandavall's...
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 Gordon Memorial United Methodist Church, historically located at 2336 Herman Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The current city directory lists the address as 2334 Herman Street. With the congregation originally founded in 1903,...
A photograph of Grandview Heights Church of Christ located at 2605 Nolensville Road in Nashville, Tennessee. This congregation was founded in 1892, and the building pictured was erected in 1954. In 2006 the Brentwood Hills Church of Christ...
A photograph of Green Street Church of Christ located at 146 Green Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was founded in 1892, and the present church building was completed in 1930 after the original frame structure burned in 1929. The...
A photograph of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Nashville's second-oldest Episcopal church building. This church is located at 615 Sixth Avenue South. The congregation was founded in 1852 as a free church, open to all people. Holy Trinity evolved...
A photograph of Inglewood Church of the Nazarene located at 3934 Gallatin Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. Historically the name of the road was Gallatin Road, but the location of the church has not changed. According to the cornerstone, the...
A photograph of Inglewood United Methodist Church located at 3511 Gallatin Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone, the congregation was founded in 1924. The sanctuary was completed in 1939. The foundation is made of rough cut...
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 Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church located at 2708 Jefferson Street in Nashville, Tennessee. Historically called Jefferson Street Baptist, this church's congregation was founded in 1887 when a coffin maker started a Sunday...