This image provides an aerial view of the demolition of the Andrew Jackson Hotel, ca. 1971, to make way for the James K. Polk Office Building, which contains the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and the Tennessee State Museum. Photographed by the...
An interior view of the Business Branch of the Carnegie Library, Nashville, Tennessee. This business library was created to serve the industrial and business interests of Nashville and was generously supported through a gift of H. G. Hill, a...
A photograph of Christ Church Cathedral located at 900 Broadway Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. Christ Church Cathedral serves as the Cathedral for the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Originally built in 1830 on the corner of Sixth Avenue and...
An undated photograph of an ionic capital column from the restoration of the Tennessee State Capitol Building in Nashville, Tennessee. This remnant is derived from the original columns of the Capitol Building, which was renovated during a massive...
A view of the architectural elements of the gable and window design of the Hamilton Parks residence, located at 1706 West End Avenue, in Nashville, Tennessee. This architectural structure is non-extant, having been demolished circa the 1960's. It...
A front view of the old Father Ryan High School, located at 2300 Elliston Place in Nashville, Tennessee. This school building was originally constructed circa 1928-29 on land that was once a part of the Elliston family plantation. The Roman...
A photograph of the First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, located at 108 Seventh Avenue South, on the corner of Broadway and 7th Avenue South, showing the original steeple tower and adjacent upper arch structures, during an early phase of the...
A photograph, circa April 1959, of downtown Nashville along Fourth Avenue North of Church Street from the corner of the Maxwell House Hotel. Several buildings and landmarks may be seen, such as the Maxwell House Hotel's marquee sign and the very...
View of façade of the Hamilton Parks residence, located at 1706 West End Avenue, in Nashville, Tennessee. This architectural structure is non-extant, having been demolished circa the 1960's. It was originally the family home of Hamilton Parks, a...
A photograph of the James Geddes Engine Company No. 6, a two-story architectural structure located at 629 2nd Avenue, South, in Nashville, Tennessee. This building's address at the time of the photograph was 627 2nd Avenue, South, as listed in the...
A photograph of the exposed interior walls of the Knickerbocker Theater in Nashville, Tennessee featuring birds-of-paradise frescoes on the walls (pictured in this photograph). The Knickerbocker was originally a magnificent movie house, located in...
A photograph of the Legislative Plaza, Tennessee State Capitol and War Memorial Building viewed from Union Street in Nashville, Tennessee circa 4 September 1978. The Legislative Plaza is seen at ground level, South of the State Capitol, built by...
A photograph of the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This five-story hotel was begun by John Overton in 1859, but the Civil War delayed its completion. It was used for barracks for both Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners...
An undated photograph of the non-extant Nashville & Decatur Railroad depot building, built in 1868. The original immense Gothic Revival structure was located at the corner of Chestnut Street and Fourth Avenue (Cherry Street) and constructed of...
A photograph of Newsom's Mill, along the Harpeth River, near Bellevue, located a few miles southwest of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The original grist mill was built several years earlier; this grist mill was built by Col. Joseph M. Newsom in...
An undated photograph the Old Stone Bridge over Mansker's Creek in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. This historic bridge is one of Tennessee's oldest bridges made of stone with masonry arch construction. This dual arch bridge was built circa 1837-1849...
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 showing a gargoyle on the stone column of the old Chamber of Commerce building, located at 315 Fourth Avenue, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to the building's razing in the early 1970's, it housed the Vanderbilt Law Department...
A close-up photograph of a window structure and porchtop of the Lynnlawn mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, built by Thomas E. Stratton circa 1852. Designed in the Italian Renaissance style, the facade of the architecture has been attributed to...
A photograph of a stone carving of the face of a woman over the archway of one entrance to the 5th Avenue side of Saint Cloud Corner, 500 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee. Part of the building occupies the former site of the Saint Cloud Hotel, a...