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In May 1984, 16th Avenue Records moved to Nashville, Tennessee. In 1987 the Opryland Music Group assumed the 16th Avenue Records name with Jerry Bradley as President. The label's first signee was Charley Pride , whose 1987 single "Have I Got Some Blues for You" was the label's first release.
The building, across from the Tennessee State Capitol at the corner of Charlotte Avenue and 7th Avenue North, was completed in 1937. Before its construction, the Supreme Court had occupied space in the Capitol. [2] [3] The four-story building was designed by Nashville architects Marr & Holman in a style known as Stripped Classicism.
Samuel DeWitt Proctor was born in Norfolk, Virginia on July 13, 1921. [1] Unusual for an African American born in this era, Proctor's grandparents on both sides had received education at the university level: his paternal grandmother had attended Hampton Institute, and both of his maternal grandparents had attended Norfolk Mission College,the forerunner of Booker T Washington High School in ...
21st Ave., S. and Edgehill Ave. 36°08′30″N 86°47′55″W / 36.141667°N 86.798611°W / 36.141667; -86.798611 ( Peabody College for Nashville
That month, William Phipps wrote home to his sister, Charlotte, "we are the pick regiment of Tennessee." [6] According to Worsham's first person account, at the time of the regiment's formation, there were 1,012 men in the 19th's rank and file, and 48 commissioned officers, for a total of 1,060 soldiers. [7]
Its name was changed to Second Avenue in 1903. [3] The Second Avenue Historic Preservation Overlay District is a coextensive district created by the local government. It was established in March 1997 by the Metropolitan Historic Zoning Commission (MHZC), which is part of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. [4]
In the post-Civil War era, a businessman named Samuel Tate constructed a large Victorian-style luxury hotel in the community that became the main focus of a resort known as Tate Springs. Around the late 1870s, the hotel was purchased by Captain Thomas Tomlinson, who would transform the property into a vast resort that advertised the supposed ...
Samuel H. Kress... envisioned his stores as works of public art that would contribute to the cityscape." [ 7 ] A number of former Kress stores are recognized as architectural landmarks and many are listed on the National Register of Historic Places , including the 1913 building on Canal Street in New Orleans (now the New Orleans Ritz-Carlton ...