A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Kirkwood Heights development. The caption states “the homes pictured above are part of the Kirkwood Heights developments just being completed. Many of these houses are ready for...
A published photo of children in the Buena Vista Band, from the Nashville Times (1940). The school site was located northwest of downtown Nashville. The name “Buena Vista” relates to the home name of John L. Beck and his wife Lavinia, when they...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a musicale at the Lewis home. The caption reads: “Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis are seen on the lawns of their home, “Singing Waters,” on Hillcrest Avenue, where the beautiful annual...
The residence known as “Bonnie Brae,” once rested on twenty-two acres along the hillside of the present-day southwestern corner of Woodlawn Drive and I-440. The Villager Condominiums stand there now. “Bonnie Brae” derives its name from...
The residence of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Gaut, known as the “Alamo.” The home was located on Murfreesboro Pike, on land granted by the State of North Carolina in 1793, to Thomas Hardiman. It was during the American Civil War that a large body of...
The Oak Hill “residence of Mr. and Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman, like many other homes on the Franklin Pike, is situated on a portion of the battle field of Nashville. Many relics of this conflict are here preserved. On the lovely lawn, immediately in...
A photograph of a terra cotta design on the south side of the Elks Lodge building at 310 6th Avenue North. The building was the home to Lodge no. 72 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks (BPOE) beginning in 1904, serving various...
Judge Allen Robinson Cornelius’ Court, May 2nd, 1969. Nashville native, Allen Cornelius was born on December 27, 1920, and graduated from West End High School in 1938. A 1947 graduate of Cumberland Law School, he began his career working as an...
A photograph of buildings on the north side of the Public Square in Nashville, Tennessee. These structures were among the buildings that once delineated the outer perimeter of the public square in Nashville. The square, with the county courthouse,...
An aerial photograph of downtown Nashville, photographed for The Nashville Banner, by photographer John Morgan circa 1954. The view includes the urban landscape from the area adjacent to the Tennessee State Capitol building, south to Demonbreun...
A photograph of the destruction of buildings on east side of the Public Square in Nashville, Tennessee. The square, with the county courthouse, city hall and market center, was a focus of wholesale commerce and political activity for the city for...
The home of Captain John Bradford, named “Woodstock,” located on Granny White Pike, Nashville, Tennessee. The original home, according to a note in the scrapbook, was located at approximately 4510 Granny White Pike. Lizzie Nichol “was...
This picture was taken at the elegant home of Mrs. Wilbur F. Foster and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Foster, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. The home was later destroyed by fire circa 1933 and was rebuilt on the same...
A photograph of the Arcade, Nashville, Tennessee. The Arcade opened in 1903, running east to west between what were then Cherry Street and Summer Street; present day Fourth Avenue North and Fifth Avenue North. It was conceived by Nashville resident...
Pictured: Children posing with their scrap collection and an American flag, next to a house where a Goodwill truck has arrived to gather the materials, circa October, 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville lawyer and judge Alfred Thompson Adams, conducted on 16 September 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Adams, who served Nashville as...
Harris-Davis and Company, J. L. Turner and Son, J. S. Reeves and Company, and D. F. Siler Company were among the buildings that once delineated the outer perimeter of the public square in Nashville. The square, with the county courthouse, city hall...
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 the Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church located at 319 Fifteenth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. This building was built in 1925 by the nation's first African-American-owned architectural firm,...