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Overton Park is a large, 342-acre (138 ha) public park in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee. The park grounds contain the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art , Memphis Zoo , a 9-hole golf course, the Memphis College of Art , Rainbow Lake, Veterans Plaza, the Greensward, and other features.
Alcy-Ball; Barton Heights; Boxtown; Bunker Hill; Coro Lake; Diamond Estates; Dixie Heights; Dukestown; Elliston Heights; Emerald Estates; French Fort; Gaslight Square
Cooper Street, which connects Overton Park to the Overton Square, Idlewild, Lenox and Cooper-Young neighborhoods; Cleveland Street, which runs through the Crosstown neighborhood. Midtown Memphis is connected to the Medical District and downtown via the Madison Avenue trolley line, with a park and ride station at Cleveland Street. [5]
In Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe the U.S. Supreme Court finally saved the Old Forest from highway construction plans in 1971. In 1987, the Tennessee Department of Transportation deeded the 26-acre corridor back to the City of Memphis. In 2008, the Memphis Zoo clear-cut 4 acres (16,000 m 2) to make way for a new exhibit, Teton Trek ...
Memphis, Tennessee: Coordinates: Area: 100 acres (40 ha) Architectural style: Bungalow/Craftsman, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals: NRHP reference No. 85000080 [1] Added to NRHP: January 11, 1985 [1]
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 ...
During Memphis' early period of growth in the mid-19th century, a few wealthy Memphians built grand, Victorian-style homes in what was then the outskirts of the city. The homes in Victorian Village were built from 1846 into the 1890s, and range in style from Neo-classical through Late Gothic Revival. [ 2 ]
Broad Avenue is currently the home of the Memphis Greenline (cycling path) headquarters, and was used as an early demonstration of proposed bike lanes for the city of Memphis. [6] The demonstration, which proved to be a success (resulting in the permanent addition of bike lanes) was arranged by Livable Memphis . [ 7 ]