A photograph of Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church. Formerly Twelfth Avenue Church of Christ, Abyssinia Missionary Baptist sits at 1810 Twelfth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The current Baptist congregation gained the church in 1971. ...
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 postcard aerial view of downtown Nashville, circa 1940. Leading up to the 1940s, Nashville's importance as a trading center grew steadily, and the city was known to the business world as "The Commercial Capital of the Central South." The...
A photograph of All Saints Church, located at 4513 Park Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The denomination of the church is Southern Episcopal. The exterior walls are built with stone. An asphalt shingle roof tops the church. The windows are...
This beautiful covered shopping arcade, located between Fourth and Fifth Avenues N, in downtown Nashville, was built in 1903 and was modeled after the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II arcade in Milan, Italy. The City Beautiful Award ribbon was...
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 tree planting ceremony at the Bailey’s Food Market, a retail grocery store located at 900 2nd Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee. Mayor Ben West is present for the event, as well as many traffic “patrol mothers” and two traffic police...
A postcard of the Belle H. Bennett Memorial on the campus of Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tennessee. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a training school for...
A photograph of Belle Meade United Primitive Baptist Church, located at 1018 Forty Second Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1965, while the congregation was formed in 1891. The denomination of the congregation is...
A photograph of Belmont Church, now located at 64 Music Square East. Originally the church was called Belmont Avenue Church of Christ and had an address of 64 Sixteenth Avenue South. While today the church has a non-denominational congregation,...
A photograph of Belmont United Methodist Church located at 2007 Acklen Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Belmont United Methodist underwent extensive remodeling during a $1.6 million renovation that started in 1987 and was completed in 1991. The...
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 photograph of Calvary United Methodist Church located at 3701 Hillsboro Road. This church was built in the 1940s. The exterior walls are red brick with cross gables near the rear of the building. There is a low gabled roof made of copper sheet...
A photograph of Charlotte Avenue Church of Christ, built in 1921. This church is located at 4508 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville Tennessee. It is the second structure erected to house its members at the corner of Charlotte and Forty-sixth Avenues....
A photograph of Christ the King Catholic Church, located at 3001 Belmont Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee. The church's first mass was held in 1937 inside of a two-story brick house that was situated on the property bought for the church by the...
A photograph taken on Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee at dusk, circa 1936. According to the annotated note on the verso this is one of two photographs "taken on Church Street at Polk Place about 20 minutes apart at dusk. The date was probably...
A photograph taken on Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee at dusk, circa 1936. According to the annotated note on the verso this is one of two photographs "taken on Church Street at Polk Place about 20 minutes apart at dusk. The date was probably...
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 photograph of the new air service being demonstrated at the Nashville Airport, Nashville, Tennessee. The following caption accompanied this photograph in the Nashville Banner newspaper on February 3, 1936: "Twenty-one domestic and an...
A monthly newsletter called Contact, created by the Hayes Young Adult Sunday School class at City Road Methodist Church (now City Road Chapel United Methodist Church) located at 601 Gallatin Road South in Madison, Tennessee. The purpose of this...