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The Memphis Cotton Exchange is located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, United States, on the corner of Front Street and Union Avenue. It was founded in 1874 as a result of the growing cotton market in Memphis, where trade was strong after the American Civil War. The first Cotton Exchange building was constructed in 1885.
The building was built in 1910 by the Memphis Cotton and Merchants Exchange. Locally, it became known as the "Exchange Building." The building was designed by Memphis architect Neander Montgomery Woods Jr. in the Beaux Arts style. [2] The Exchange Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [3]
The Houston Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade commissioned local architect Eugene Heiner to design a three-story building on Travis Street at the corner of Franklin in Houston. In 1907, the building was remodeled and a fourth floor added. The Houston Cotton Exchange continued to use the building until it moved its operations to a new building ...
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The Memphis Cotton Exchange was founded in 1873 by a group of cotton traders led by Napoleon Hill. Hill became immensely wealthy with interests in wholesale groceries, railroads, steel and banking, as well as cotton, and was known to his contemporaries as "the merchant prince of Memphis". [30]
The Cotton Museum, located in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S., is an historical and cultural museum that opened in March 2006 on the former trading floor of the Memphis Cotton Exchange at 65 Union Avenue in downtown Memphis. [1] The mission of the Cotton Museum is to share the story of the cotton industry and its many influences on the daily life ...
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Cotton Exchange Building may refer to: in the United Kingdom. Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building, England; Manchester Royal Exchange the United Kingdom's principal cotton exchange from 1729 until 1968; Blackburn Cotton Exchange Building; in the United States. Augusta Cotton Exchange Building, Augusta, Georgia