Status: Preserved Address: 495 Tennessee Street (formerly 477 Tennessee Street), Memphis Built: 1890 Architectural Style: Industrial Original Function/Purpose: Manufacturing History: Built in 1890, the Tennessee Brewery was initially organized as the “Memphis Brewing Company.” At one point the largest brewery in the South, the company had around 1,500 workers and producedContinue Reading
Status: Preserved Address: 706 Union Avenue, Memphis Built: 1908 Architectural Style: Local vernacular (brick row building) Original Function/Purpose: Commerce History: The building at 706 Union Avenue originally housed the Magic Throttle Company, an automobile-related business in a neighborhood that historically contained a number of auto-related businesses. In 1949 the interior wasContinue Reading
Status: Preserved Address: 245 Madison Avenue, Memphis Built: 1909 Architectural Style: Beaux Arts Original Function/Purpose: Hotel History: Designed by John Gaisford (architect of Lenox School and the Falls Building), the Leslie M. Stratton YMCA was dedicated on October 17, 1909, with President William Howard Taft and governors of twenty-seven statesContinue Reading
Status: Preserved Location: Strathmore Circle East, North, and South, and part of East Parkway North, in Memphis Built: ca. 1920-ca. 1945 Architectural Style: Various: Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Mission Revival, Tudor Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Spanish Revival Original Function/Purpose: Residential History: Strathmore Place Historic District homes were built alongContinue Reading
Status: Preserved Location: Stonewall Street between Poplar Avenue and North Parkway, in Memphis Built: 1910-1930 Architectural Style: Four-Square (Neo-Classical, Neo-Colonial, Bungalow, Arts & Crafts influence) History: Stonewall Place Historic District is a four-block segment of Stonewall Street which Robert Brinkley Snowden and John Bayard Snowden helped to develop. It hasContinue Reading
Status: Preserved Address: 22 North B.B. King Boulevard (formerly North Third Street), Memphis Built: 1963 Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Original Function/Purpose: Hotel History: This building consists of a first floor hotel lobby with restaurant/nightclub and retail, plus parking entrances, topped by six floors of parking and finished off with theContinue Reading
Status: Endangered Address: 8 North Third Street (now 8 North B.B. King Boulevard; northeast corner of Madison Avenue and B.B. King Boulevard), Memphis Built: Completed in 1929 Architectural Style: Commercial Gothic Original Function/Purpose: Commerce History: This 29-story Gothic-style tower housed more than 2000 occupants and had its own barber shop, beautyContinue Reading
Status: Preserved Address: LeMoyne-Owen College Campus, Walker Avenue, Memphis Built: 1914 Architectural Style: Collegiate Gothic Original Function/Purpose: Education History: LeMoyne Normal Institute moved to its present site on Walker Avenue in 1914. Also in that year the first building was constructed – Steele Hall, designed by Vertner W. Tandy and GeorgeContinue Reading
Status: Endangered Address: 588 East Trigg Avenue, Memphis Built: ca. 1907, ca. 1925-26, ca. 1944-48 Architectural Style: Romanesque Revival, Colonial Revival Original Function/Purpose: Church History: St. Thomas Catholic Church was built in the mid-1920s to a design by the Memphis firm of Richard J. Regan and John T. Weller, which wasContinue Reading
Status: Endangered Location: 751-53 to 775-77 St. Paul Avenue, and 558 Boyd Street, in Memphis Built: 1890-1923 Architectural Style: Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Queen Anne Original Function/Purpose: Residential History: St. Paul Avenue Historic District is a small group of two single-family houses, and nine double-shotgun duplexes developed along St. Paul Avenue,Continue Reading