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Interior of the hotel Hotel lobby and chandeliers. Nashville's Union Station is a former railroad terminal designed by Richard Montfort, chief engineer of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N), and built between 1898 and 1900 to serve the passengers of the eight railroads that provided passenger service to Nashville, Tennessee, at the time, but principally the L&N. [1] [2] Built just ...
1916 – Nashville Housewives League organized. [20] 1918 July 9: Great Train Wreck of 1918. 1918 influenza epidemic. [31] 1920 – Population: 118,342. [11] 1922 - Nashville's first radio station, WDAA, signs on [32] 1925 War Memorial Auditorium dedicated. [33] WSM radio and its Grand Ole Opry begin broadcasting. [34] Belcourt Theatre built. [23]
The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music (U of Georgia Press, 2015). Houston, Benjamin. The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City. (U of Georgia Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0820343273 excerpt; Klein, Maury. History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (UP of Kentucky, 2014). Lloyd, Richard.
Louisville Terminus at Union Station with 11-story L&N Building on the left. Though well past its 100th anniversary, the line was still growing. The railroad retired its last steam locomotive, a J-4 class 2-8-2 Mikado #1882, from active service on January 28, 1957. [4] Also in that year, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis was
The historic Union Station Hotel has been purchased by Southwest Value Partners, the San Diego company developing the 17-acre Nashville Yards. That project's Grand Hyatt and Amazon office towers ...
Union Station, Nashville, Tennessee, Montfort's most famous building. Ground was broken for Nashville Union Station on 1 August 1898, and it was opened on 9 October 1900, in the year of the last great Paris World's Fair of the nineteenth century. Even though it no longer serves passenger traffic, it remains the greatest monument to Montfort, as ...
When Erica and Dave Garrison tapped Stephanie Sabbe to liven up their new-to-them house in 2017, it felt something like destiny for the designer. For years, Sabbe had lived a block over from the ...
Castle Hill Avenue station; Church Avenue station (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line) Claremont station (New Hampshire) Borough Hall/Court Street station; Court Street station (BMT Fourth Avenue Line) Crown Heights–Utica Avenue station