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Scope and content: First and second floor plans plus exterior and interior photos from 1967 provide a look into Nashville's historic Peach Blossom mansion shortly before it was demolished. Plans and photos were done by Nashville architect Charles Warterfield, Jr., at the behest of the Metropolitian Historical Commission, who at the time hoped the mansion could house a city-owned museum.
Plans missing as of 7/14/2014. - LB.
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Scope and content: A wide variety of materials concerning the establishment, growth, operations and exhibits of Cheekwood, an art museum, botanical garden, and mansion in Nashville, Tenn.
Materials include: general brochures; information about specific artists or art exhibits, including the Dale Chihuly exhibit in 2010; the botanical gardens; children's activities; fundraising efforts; a prospectus for establishing Cheekwood as a museum and botanical...
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Scope and content: Biography of Capt. William Driver, who is credited with giving the American flag the nickname of "Old Glory," and his family. Also includes a biographical sketch of C. Primo Bartolini, an Italian immigrant who became an American citizen, and who, in 1931, built his house on the foundation of Driver's home. Details about both men's homes are provided. Bartolini worked for a while with the Works Progress Administration, and a short...
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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...
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Scope and content: Deed research sheets and color Polaroid photographs, providing architectural and historical information about the Sylvan Park and West Nashville areas of Nashville, Tenn. A planned subdivision at the turn of the 20th century, Sylvan Park was an integral part of the growing manufacturing town of West Nashville, located near the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, the Cumberland River, and Charlotte Pike. A number of the early...
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Architecture - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
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Scope and content: Fifteen interviews in various formats conducted mostly in 1977 and 1978 with individuals who were owners, or were the family of former owners of historic homes in Nashville, most of which had been in the same family for several generations. Several of the homes were constructed prior to 1800 during the early settlement period of Middle Tennessee. A few are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to their...
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Scope and content: The collection contains material relating to the historical research and book publications of author-historian Sarah Foster Kelley, a seventh-generation descendant of General James Robertson and Charlotte Reeves Robertson. Includes numerous records about Robertson family history and research files on many of the families that were among the earliest settlers of what is now Nashville, Tennessee, such as the Cockrills, Dunns, Mays,...
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Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Impact of Interstate development
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Impact of Interstate development
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Summary: A collection of organizational records of Belmont-Hillsboro Neighbors, Inc., including correspondence, photographs, newsletters and topical research files created by the organization. Also includes numerous publications produced by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. The documentary resources, spanning ca. 1970 through ca. 1988, relate to the organizational leadership and activities of the citizens advocacy group,...
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Architecture - Special Collections Topics
Civil Rights - Special Collection Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Three audio recordings created in 1986 by Historic Nashville, Inc. in which the speakers describe and discuss homes, schools, churches, and various historical minutiae in the following neighborhoods: Lockeland Springs (William Henry Oliver); Belmont-Hillsboro (Eugene TeSelle) and Edgefield. Particularly of note are the subjects of segregation and desegregation in schooling and housing, discussed at length in both the Oliver and...
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Scope and Content: Architectural and personal papers of Robinson Neil Bass, consisting primarily of architectural plans and renderings, news clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and related materials documenting numerous commercial, residential, and government buildings designed by Bass through the latter half of the twentieth century. The collection is organized in to two series: I. Building Projects; and II. Personal Papers.
Series I. Building Projects...
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Scope and content: Seven audio-recorded interviews with lifelong Nashville residents, most of whom were born in the early twentieth century. Focus is upon East Nashville, formerly known as Edgefield, but also includes downtown Nashville and other nearby locales.
Angie (Cantrell) Merritt Donelson (later Ezell) tells about her family history, and the business operations of her first husband, Gilbert Merritt, who owned Southern Woodenware, located in...
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