Status: Preserved Address: 208 Adams Avenue, Memphis Built: 1853 Architectural Style: Italianate Victorian Original Function/Purpose: Residential History: This elegant two-story townhouse was originally built for successful cotton factor and merchant Sterling Fowlkes. His family arrived in the Memphis area from Virginia sometime before 1840. After Fowlkes died in 1872, the homeContinue Reading
Status: Preserved Address: 1545 South Byhalia Road, Collierville Built: ca. 1850 Architectural Style: Greek Revival / Italianate Original Function/Purpose: Residential History: The John M. Fleming Home Place is a well-preserved example of a transitional Greek Revival / Italianate plantation home dating from ca. 1850. The surrounding farm contains a collection ofContinue Reading
Status: Preserved Address: 166 Poplar Avenue, Memphis Built: 1884, 1928, 1955 Architectural Style: Romanesque Revival with elements of the Aesthetic Movement Original Function/Purpose: Church History: First Presbyterian Church was built in 1883-84 to a design by Edward Culliatt Jones, a design that refers to a church in England designed by A.W.N.Continue Reading
Status: Preserved Address: 234 South Watkins Street, Memphis Built: 1910 Architectural Style: Georgian Revival Original Function/Purpose: Church History: Founded by 25 anti-slavery members, the congregation was originally known as Union Congregational Church. During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of the late nineteenth century, the church served as a boys’ school under theContinue Reading
Status: Endangered Address: 682 South Lauderdale Street, Memphis Built: 1939 Architectural Style: Colonial Revival Original Function/Purpose: Church History: First Baptist Church, Lauderdale was a bastion of African-American culture and community after its construction in 1939. It is of particular importance because it was the parish and residence of Rev. Thomas OscarContinue Reading
Status: Preserved Address: 538 Linden Avenue, Memphis Built: 1906-1907 Architectural Style: Classical Revival Original Function/Purpose: Church History: First Baptist Church was built between 1906-1907 in the Classical Revival style, designed by the well-known architectural firm of R.H. Hunt & Company of Chattanooga, which specialized in the design of churches and publicContinue Reading
Status: Endangered Address: 379 Beale Street, Memphis Built: 1869; cornerstone 1871; completed 1885 Architectural Style: Gothic Influence Original Function/Purpose: Church History: Beale Street Baptist Church was built in 1869 and is notable for being the first Memphis church built for Blacks. It is often regarded as “the Mother of Black churches”Continue Reading
Status: Preserved Address: 750 East Parkway South, Memphis Built: 1930 Architectural Style: Art Deco Original Function/Purpose: Education History: Fairview Junior High School is an excellent rare intact example of an institutional building in the Art Deco style. The architects were Edward Lee Harrison and Noland Van Powell, and the schoolContinue Reading
Status: Preserved Address: 824 South Dudley Street, Memphis Built: ca. 1880, ca. 1900 Architectural Style: Victorian Carpenter Gothic Original Function/Purpose: Cemetery History: Occupying Phillips Cottage, the only example of Victorian Carpenter Gothic architecture in Memphis, the Elmwood Cemetery Visitor Center and office has come to symbolize the essence of Elmwood toContinue Reading
Status: Preserved Address: 824 South Dudley Street, Memphis Built: 1852-1951 Architectural Style: Cemetery Original Function/Purpose: Cemetery History: Elmwood Cemetery is the oldest active cemetery in Memphis and one of the first rural garden cemeteries in the South. It was established in 1852 with the financial assistance of 50 men whoContinue Reading