A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a new residential home construction located off Woodmont Boulevard. The caption reads: “Just one of the many new homes constructed off Woodmont Boulevard indicates that building in...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a new sorority. The caption reads: “Several attractive members of the young school set who recently organized a new junior sorority, Kappa Alpha Phi, are, left to right: Jean Moss, Virginia...
A photograph of the groundbreaking ceremonies for the main library in Nashville, Tennessee, located at 8th Avenue North and Union Street, circa December 1963. Pictured are, from left to right, Chairman of the Nashville Public Library Board Charles...
A photograph of Sixty-first Avenue United Methodist Church located at 6018 New York Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The church's original site address was 6020 New York Avenue. The foundation is made of concrete blocks, painted white. The...
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 Christ Church Cathedral located at 900 Broadway Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. Christ Church Cathedral serves as the Cathedral for the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Originally built in 1830 on the corner of Sixth Avenue and...
A photograph of the opening of Cain-Sloan Department Store's new facility. A crowd of more than 500 persons stood in the early morning chill on Church Street to hear John Sloan, president of Cain-Sloan Co., officially open the firm's new...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
A photograph of Gospel Tabernacle Church of God in Christ located at 1101 Jackson Street in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone the church was built in 1916 as Jackson Street Baptist Church, and remodeled in 1941 by Reverend William...
A two-page typewritten letter by Jessie Wallace to her mother, Mrs. C.M. (Lorine) Wallace of Ames, Iowa. Jessie grew up in Oklahoma and her family moved to Iowa during the Depression. During World War II, Jessie Wallace (later McNutt) served in...
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...
Tarbox School opened in 1880 on 17th Avenue between Hayes Street and West End Avenue. It was named for L.G. Tarbox who served as principal of Hume school. In 1886, a new three story, brick building with a six story bell tower was constructed and...
A photograph of Strother's Meeting Center located on the southeast section of the Scarritt-Bennett Center campus. This log cabin church was the meeting place for the first Methodist conference in Middle Tennessee. That first conference took place...
A photograph of Trinity Presbyterian Church located at 3201 Hillsboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was founded in 1942 and originally held services in Wightman Chapel on the Scarritt College campus before moving to their present...
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 End United Methodist Church located at 2200 West End Avenue in the West End neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. This church was the third building for the congregation that organized in 1869. Donald W. Southgate was the...
A photograph of Word of Faith Christian Center located at 2635 Nolensville Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. Formerly Grandview Baptist Church, the address was originally listed in the city directory as 2641 Nolensville Road. Grandview Baptist was...
Church of the Advent, Episcopal, was organized in 1857 by 58 communicants of Christ Episcopal Church and its rector the Rev. Charles Tomes after a disagreement over pew rentals. Rev. Tomes died soon after the group formed, and the Rev. Charles T....
A postcard of the Church Street viaduct right after completion between 1915 and 1930. This structure was built to carry car traffic over the railroad tracks. A new viaduct was built to replace this one in the 1990s. Forms part of the Norton...