Residences ephemera subject files, 1861-2011 (bulk 2005-2011)
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

Organization: I. In general, II. Specific residential buildings;,Arrangement: series I alphabetical by location or type, series II alphabetical by building name.

Materials housed in Special Collections Division of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.

Individual structures documented in the collection include: Belle Meade; Belmont; Buchanan Log House; Buena Vista; Carnton; Carter House; Cragfont; Fairvue; Fontanel; Governor's Mansion; Grassmere; Harrison Lofts; the Hermitage; Meridian building; Monroe building; Signature Tower (never built); Stahlman building; Stone Hall; Sunnyside; Terrazzo; Travellers' Rest; Werthan Mills.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Abstract: Includes a wide variety of material relating to residences, including named homes, apartments, condominiums, and adaptive reuse of historic buildings as residences. Includes some neighborhood or area guides and directories to real estate, rentals, historic homes, and related resources.

Scope and content: Materials include sales, rental, or promotional brochures, some with floor plans; tourist or historically oriented brochures and booklets for historic homes, including schedules of events, educational activities, and similar items in the case of homes operated as historic sites; research papers relating to specific structures or properties; and a variety of other material. Some items have illustrations, floor plans, or in the case of advertisements, color photographs reproduced in brochures. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item. Some items are photocopies.

Some of the more notable themes contained in these materials as a whole include plantation homes as tourist sites; development of residential sites in the downtown core of Nashville during the 2000s and 2010s, as well as in nearby areas such as "The Gulch," including both new construction as well as adaptive reuse of former business, office, or industrial structures converted to condominiums or apartments; and a few items relating to proposed residential buildings that were never built or to historic structures which ceased to exist.

Cite as: [folder title or item description], Residences Ephemera Subject Files, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library

Some items may be restricted by copyright law or donor restriction.

Intentionally assembled by staff of the Special Collections Division, beginning at an unknown date, probably in the late 1960s, and collected on an ongoing basis.

Related materials: A separate collection, entitled Group Homes Ephemera Subject Files, has materials about collective living situations, such as children's homes, orphanages, old age homes, veterans homes, and the like.

Related materials may also be found elsewhere in the Ephemera Subject Files under Biography (for families associated with specific homes); Architecture; Businesses; Buildings; Neighborhoods; and other topics relevant to particular structures.

In English

Finding aid available in repository;,folder level control.,https://assets.library.nashville.org/documents/finding-aids/Special_Collections_Division_Finding_Aid_Ephemera_Residences.pdf.

Process;,2015;,Linda Barnickel.

Weed;,2003;,Carol Kaplan and Linda Barnickel.

Additional accruals are expected.