Aldermen pass electric street light bill by a vote of ten to four. The vote approves a contract with Brush Electric Light Company for two hundred lights.
A photograph of St. Bernard Convent and Academy, a private Catholic girls' school located on Hillsboro Road in the Green Hills neighborhood. The school was started by the Sisters of Mercy who came to Tennessee from Rhode Island to start in 1866...
A photograph of Machinery Hall at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, in whose splendid proportions and style was designed with the Parthenon as the prototype and the propylaeum gateway as a component part. This non-extant...
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...
A photograph of the First Baptist Church of West Nashville located at 619 Thirty-ninth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The founding year of the congregation is 1874 and the current building was remodeled in 1958. The foundation is red...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Frances Lusky, conducted on 21 July 1976 by Leonard Wood as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Lusky discusses the lights, fireworks, and going to hear John Philip...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville dentist Walter Morgan, conducted on 16 September 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Morgan describes the buildings, the lights, the...