A photograph of the exposed interior walls of the Knickerbocker Theater in Nashville, Tennessee featuring birds-of-paradise frescoes on the walls (pictured in this photograph). The Knickerbocker was originally a magnificent movie house, located in...
A photograph of Bill Hudson and Associates, an advertising agency that stands on the lot of the former Immanuel Baptist Church located at 1701 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Construction on Immanuel Baptist Church was started in 1911 and...
A photograph of Inglewood Baptist Church located at 3901 Gallatin Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. This congregation was established in 1923 and began meeting in a small home on Shelton Avenue. In the late 1920s the congregation began meeting on...
A photograph of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church located at 19 Hart Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in approximately 1894 as Mount Gilead Baptist Church. In 1981, the name changed to Prince of Peace Baptist Church, but...
A photograph of New Hall Intermediaries, an insurance office, located at 1230 Second Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. This building was constructed in 1873 by Morton Howell after he purchased the lot on Market Street (now Second Avenue). ...
Third Baptist Church was organized in 1876. In 1877 the membership erected a building on a Jefferson Street site given to the congregation by First Baptist Church. In 1899 the congregation purchased a lot on Monroe Street and in 1904, using brick...
A photograph of West Nashville United Methodist Church located at 4710 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was organized as the West Side Mission around 1880. Their first chapel was built under the name of Clifton Methodist...
Subdivision of Mt. Olivet Cemetery lot 161, section one, owned by Dr. D.T. McGavock. Mt. Olivet Cemetery, located on Lebanon Road, opened in 1856 and is still in operation today. 8 x 10 in.
A postcard of the early St. Thomas Hospital, sometimes referred to as St. Thomas Sanitarium. The hospital is named for its founder, Bishop Thomas S. Byrne of Nashville. In 1898 he bought a mansion home in a residential West End neighborhood on...
A postcard of St. Thomas Hospital located on Hayes Street at the corner of Twentieth Avenue. This hospital was established by Bishop Thomas S. Byrne, and run by the Sisters of Charity under the Roman Catholic Church. In 1974, St. Thomas opened a...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, to his wife, Eunice, in the years following the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. ...
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 a young woman walking down 6th Avenue North toward the Tennessee State Capitol in her Easter finery. The Hermitage Hotel and parking lot across the street can be seen in the background. Similar photos appeared in the Nashville...
28; Northeast; 79; 10.0x24.0; *Can't find the deed, but according to the Platt book, this lot is owned by a Bosworth.; Bosworth, A.J. 1855-57; Bosworth, H. & E. 1804-1864 (E. Bosworth); Bosworth, P. 1784-1816; Wallace, E.A. -1835; Wallace, J.H....
28; Southeast; 42; 8.0x36.0; * Can't find the deed, but according to the Platt book this lot is owned by J. Alley.; Alley 1856 (infant of); Alley F. 1813-1845; H.C.P. (Patton, Mrs. H.C. 1833-1874); J.M.P. (James Patton 1821-1900)
(Lot taken and occupied before 1843); 18; 11; 18.0x30.0; 226; I; 09/09/1843; 201; II; Anderson, Andrew 1795-1867; Anderson, Eliza 1807-1849; Anderson, Felix B. 1840-1841 (infant); Anderson, Jas. M. 1842-43 (infant); Anderson, Mary Pamela 1846...