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Nashville Crossroads: Open since 2004, this honky tonk hosts southern rock bands as well as classic country artists. [ 49 ] Tootsie's Orchid Lounge : With four stages and three bars spread across three floors, this orchid-colored honky tonk – a paint job mess up is how the bar got its name – is possibly the most well known on Broadway. [ 50 ]
View of downtown Nashville from the John Siegenthaler Pedestrian Bridge. The bridge was refurbished and includes an elevator, ramps, and stairways. The bridge has a center lane that is 15 feet (4.6 m) across to accommodate bicycles.
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The Silliman Evans Bridge borders downtown Nashville directly to the southeast and is part of the loop of interstate highways that completely encircle downtown Nashville, known locally as the Downtown Loop. The southern portion of the bridges consists of four separate two-lane ramps that are part of an interchange between I-24 and I-40. One of ...
The Maxwell House Hotel was a major hotel in downtown Nashville. Because of its stature, seven US Presidents and other prominent guests stayed there over the years. It was built by Colonel John Overton Jr. and named for his wife, Harriet (Maxwell) Overton. The architect was Isaiah Rogers. [1]
The name came later when, to her surprise, a painter made the exterior of the lounge purple. Subsequently, the name was changed to Tootsie's Orchid Lounge and, to date, the exterior of the building still is painted the same color. At her 1978 funeral were Nashville luminaries Tom T. Hall, Roy Acuff and Faron Young. She was buried in an orchid ...
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The idea for a large-scale performing arts facility developed in 1972, when Martha Rivers Ingram was appointed to the advisory board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and proposed a similar center for her home city of Nashville. Ingram's proposal involved a public-private partnership that would operate within a ...