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The Overton Park Shell was built in 1936 by the City of Memphis and the Works Progress Administration for $11,935, as part of the New Deal. Designed by architect Max Furbringer, it was modeled after similar shells in Chicago, New York, and St. Louis. The WPA built 27 band shells; the Overton Park Shell is one of only a few that still remain.
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Madison Avenue, which served as pre-World War II Memphis' main east–west corridor, and now feeds the Overton Square district; McLean Boulevard, which is a primary north–south connector of residential neighborhoods; Cooper Street, which connects Overton Park to the Overton Square, Idlewild, Lenox and Cooper-Young neighborhoods;
"Here, in the heart of Overton Park, we will take metalwork to its next level," Aycock said. Neil Strebig is a journalist with The Commercial Appeal. He can be reached at neil.strebig ...
Three Fortune 500 companies, FedEx, AutoZone and International Paper Co. call Memphis home. These significant businesses have brought a large manufacturing industry. Of the 607,900 jobs in Memphis in July 2014, 209,900 are in the manufacturing and transportation industries, around 34.5 percent. [5]
The Memphis Zoo is a zoo in Midtown, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. There are no Tennessee Tuesdays in March at the Memphis Zoo. [3] It is home to more than 3,500 animals representing over 500 different species. Created in April 1906, the zoo has been a major tenant of Overton Park for more than 100 years. The land currently designated to ...
The new cafe would be located at 2035 Madison Ave. near Overton Square at the Madison Lofts apartment complex. According to the permit application, the 2,014-square-foot store has an estimated ...
Glenview Historic District is a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 1999. [1] The neighborhood is between South Memphis and Midtown and bounded by the Illinois Central Railroad on the west, Lamar Ave on the east, Southern Ave on the north and South Parkway on the south.