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part of the Memphis MPS 160: St. Thomas Catholic Church and Convent: St. Thomas Catholic Church and Convent: March 15, 2005 : 588 E. Trigg Ave. Memphis: part of the Religious Resources of Memphis, Shelby County, TN MPS 161
The Robert M. Carrier House, also known as the Matthews House, is a historic house in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It was built in 1926 for Robert M. Carrier and his wife. [ 2 ] In 1974, it was purchased by William S. Matthews, Jr. [ 2 ] It was designed in the Jacobean Revival architectural style by Bryant Fleming , a Professor of ...
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.
Shelby County is part of the Memphis, TN–MS–AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is bordered on the west by the Mississippi River . Located within the Mississippi Delta , the county was developed as a center of cotton plantations in the antebellum era, and cotton continued as an important commodity crop well into the 20th century.
The Memphis–Clarksdale–Forrest City Combined Statistical Area, TN–MS–AR (CSA) is the commercial and cultural hub of the Mid-South or Ark-Miss-Tenn. The census-defined combined statistical area covers eleven counties in three states, Tennessee , Mississippi , and Arkansas .
The first station in the district was on Calhoun Street, built c. 1855 by the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad.It was replaced by a newer Calhoun Street Station that was demolished when Memphis Central Station (originally Grand Central Station) was built on the same site in 1912–1914 by the Illinois Central Railroad and a subsidiary, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad that ran south ...
Poplar Avenue, a major road through East Memphis, runs by prominent buildings including White Station Tower (rear left) and Clark Tower (rear right).. East Memphis is a region of Memphis, Tennessee with several defined and informal subdivisions and neighborhoods such as Colonial Acres, White Station-Yates, Sherwood Forest, Normal Station, High Point Terrace, Belle Meade, Normandy Meadows, St ...
On September 4, South Memphis was divided into four wards. The treasurer for the first corporate year made a report showing that the revenue amounted to $6,266.17, and licenses, etc., to $3,750.50. John T. Trezevant was mayor in 1847-48 and A. B. Taylor in 1849. The last meeting of the mayor and aldermen of South Memphis took place December 31 ...