A postcard of Church Street at the corner of Seventh Avenue looking east in downtown Nashville around 1918. This corner was one of the busiest corners in the retail section of Nashville during the time, with close proximity to all the theatres and...
A postcard of the Duncan Hotel built in 1889 by wealthy Nashville broker William M. Duncan. This massive brick building was trimmed in stone and occupied a fourth of the block on the southeast corner of Cherry and Cedar Street (now Fourth and...
A 1956 shopping and visitors map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The streets are labeled with address numbers and building names. A straight listing of prominent buildings and stores by category is also included on the lower portion of the...
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...
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 postcard of an aerial view of downtown Nashville in 1912. Identifiable buildings include the State Capitol, Polk-Wautauga (sic) Apartments, Hermitage Hotel, Stahlman Building, First National Bank, Methodist Publishing House, and the Custom House...
A postcard depicting several Nashville landmarks, including the State Penitentiary, the Confederate Monument in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, the Parthenon in Centennial Park, two images of the United States Post Office and Custom House, Union Station,...
A postcard of The Travel Lodge located on Route No. 1 at the intersection of U.S. 41 and 70 S., nine miles southeast of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This card advertises good restaurants nearby, private tile bathrooms, air cooled rooms, city...
A postcard of the Sam Davis Hotel located at 132 Seventh Avenue North and corner of Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee. The 12-story, 250-room hotel named for Sam Davis, the Confederate hero, opened on Friday, 23 December 1927. The structure...
A postcard of the Andrew Jackson Hotel. This hotel opened in August of 1925 on the east side of Memorial Plaza on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Deaderick Street. The massive brick structure boasted 400 guest rooms. During the years it was in...
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...
A postcard of the Tulane Hotel, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue North and Church Street in downtown Nashville. This hotel was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old Nicholson House (a fancy boarding house...
A photograph of the Tulane Hotel as it appeared circa the 1930s, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue North and Church Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This hotel was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old...
A photograph of the demolition of the Maxwell House Hotel in 1962, after it was gutted by fire. The 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...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “three pickets kept vigil before the Andrew Jackson hotel today after 185 employees walked out on strike.” The Andrew Jackson hotel opened in August of 1924 on the east side of Memorial...
A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), of the Lookout Mountain Hotel on top of Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Touted as the "Castle in the Clouds," the Lookout Mountain Hotel was built in 1928 for almost $1.5 million. With...
A photograph of the Sam Davis Hotel being imploded on 16 February 1985. It was located at 132 Seventh Avenue North and corner of Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee. In about 15 seconds the explosives sent the 56-year-old hotel down into its...
A photograph of the Noel Hotel located at 200 Fourth Avenue North and corner of Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, during construction. The property had been in the Noel family since 1854, at which time a huge spring flowed, furnishing most of...
A photograph of coupled Ionic columns and archway of the Hermitage Hotel, 231 Sixth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. The building was designed by Tennessee architect J. Edwin Carpenter (1867-1932) in the Beaux Arts style and built between 1908...
A photograph of the vaulted ceiling interior of the Union Station Hotel, 1001 Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee. The Romanesque-style building was constructed 1898-1900 as the depot for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. It was designed by Richard...