An excerpt from an oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 09 February 1981 and the 13 February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Avery, the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville, Tenn., veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World...
A postcard showing drawings of the Parthenon and the First American National Bank Building. The Parthenon, located in Centennial Park, is a reproduction of the Greek Athenian Temple. This full scale replica was originally constructed out of wood,...
Advertisement for the sale of "104 Acres of Land in Davidson County, about twelve miles from Nashville, one mile from the Murfreesborough Turnpike, upon which Seaborn Gay now lives." 8 x 10 in.
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 the former Chapel Avenue Church of Christ located at 108 Chapel Avenue, now East Academy, a private elementary school in East Nashville. The Chapel Avenue Church of Christ building was sold in 2001 to help fund the retirement of...
A photograph of Clark Memorial Methodist Church, Nashville's oldest African American Church. Located now at 1015 Fourteenth Avenue North, Clark Memorial has had several name and location changes throughout the years. The congregation came into...
A postcard of the Bijou Theatre located at 423 Fourth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. This 1624 seat theatre was erected in 1904 on the site of a previous theatre that had burned two years prior. Events included live stage performances and...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds showing the Woman's Building, the grandstand and the track. Located just one mile south of downtown Nashville, the fairgrounds opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a harness racing...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds located just one mile south of downtown Nashville. The fairgrounds opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a harness racing track with a grandstand that seated 7,000 people. In 1904...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds showing the Women's Building, Grandstand, and track. Located just one mile south of downtown Nashville, the fairgrounds opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a harness racing track...
A photograph of the Downtown Presbyterian Church located on the corner of present day Fifth Avenue and Church Street. When the building was first erected in 1849 the streets were called Summer Street and Spring Street, and the structure briefly...
A photograph of the Eastland Baptist Church located at 1215 Gallatin Road in Nashville, Tennessee. This church's congregation formed in 1911 and originally met in the home of one of the members. Their first church building was built on the...
A photograph of Ephesian Primitive Baptist Church located at 1421 Twenty-first Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. Earlier city directories list the address as 1417 Twenty-first Avenue. The congregation was founded in 1934, the same year the...
A photograph of Tuck Hinton Architects office building located at the corner of Elm Street and Fifth Avenue South. Built in 1860, this two-story brick structure in Rutledge Hill was known as Elm Street Methodist Church for over one hundred years. ...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nell Barnes, conducted on 7 August 1982 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Barnes discusses catching the streetcar to Glendale Park, one of her favorite...
A photograph of Evans Hill Missionary Baptist Church located at 1341 Tulip Grove Road in Hermitage, Tennessee. The historic structure was completed in 1952. The building foundation is comprised of concrete blocks that have been painted red. The...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville investor John S. Bransford, Sr., conducted on 9 July 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Bransford discusses his family's ownership of one...
A postcard of Ward-Belmont, showing an academic building and Pembroke Hall in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1913, Belmont College, (1890) and Ward Seminary (1865), were consolidated, forming the Ward-Belmont College, a prestigious women's finishing...