Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader E.W. "Bud" Wendell, conducted on 22 June 2007 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., conducted on 18 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project: Oral History . Creighton discusses how the idea for...
A photograph of a portion of the children who attended the Nashville Children's Theatre Carnival. This excerpt ran with the Nashville Banner newspaper story on May 14, 1941 about the event: "The parking space at the side of the Community Playhouse...
A photograph of the Nashville City Reservoir, in Nashville, Tennessee, as it was being constructed in 1877. An accompanying article describes the completed structure, as quoted: "The City Reservoir, which was built in 1887, cost the city of...
Overton Hall, “the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Maxwell Overton was built in 1900 by Mr. Overton. It is after the Tudor style of architecture for manor houses, and stands in the midst of a large park, thickly wooded with giant forest trees …...
A color postcard of the Tennessee State Capitol Building. The Capitol was erected between 1845 and 1853 and cost $2,500,000 to build. The architectural idea is that of a Greek Ionic Temple. The building sits 175 feet above the Cumberland River...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Capitol and landscaped grounds along the hillside overlooking the city of Nashville, bordered by Charlotte and Sixth Avenue. The architectural idea is that of a Greek Ionic Temple. The Greek Revival building is...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Capitol and landscaped grounds along the hillside overlooking the city of Nashville, bordered by Charlotte and Sixth Avenue. The architectural idea is that of a Greek Ionic Temple. The Greek Revival building is...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Capitol and landscaped grounds along the hillside overlooking the city of Nashville, bordered by Charlotte and Sixth Avenue. The architectural idea is that of a Greek Ionic Temple. The Greek Revival building is...