First published in 1974, Architecture of Middle Tennessee quickly became a record of some of the region's most important and most endangered buildings. Based primarily upon photographs, measured drawings, and historical and architectural information assembled by the Historic American Buildings Survey of the National Park Service in 1970 and 1971, the book was conceived of as a record of buildings preservationists assumed would soon be lost. Remarkably, though, nearly half a century later, most of the buildings featured in the book are still standing.
Vanderbilt staffers discovered a treasure trove of photos and diagrams from the HABS survey that did not make the original edition in the Press archives. This new, expanded edition contains all of the original text and images from the first volume, plus many of the forgotten archived materials collected by HABS in the 1970s.
In her new introduction to this reissue, Aja Bain discusses why these buildings were saved and wonders about what lessons preservationists can learn now about how to preserve a wider swath of our shared history.
The Historic American Buildings Survey
Foreword to the New Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Government & Public Buildings
Tennessee State Capitol (Nashville), 1845-1859
Tennessee State Penitentiary (Nashville), 1895-1897
Federal Building (Old Clarksville Post Office), 1897-1898
Commercial Structures
Poston Buildings (Clarksville), ca. 1843
S. D. Morgan and Company (Nashville), 1856
Grange Warehouse (Clarksville), 1858 or 1859
Second Avenue, North, Commercial District (Nashville), 1896-1920(?)
Werthan Bag Corporation (Nashville), 1871-1880s
Bear Spring Furnace (Dover), 1873
Ryman Auditorium (Nashville), 1888-1892
Union Station (Nashville), 1898-1900
Public Arcade (Nashville), 1902
Churches
St. Mary's Cathedral (Nashville), 1844-1847
First Presbyterian Church (Nashville), 1849-1851
Zion Presbyterian Church (Columbia), 1849
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (Nashville), 1852-1887
Schools, Institutions
University of Nashville-Children's Museum (Nashville), 1853
Jubilee Hall, Fisk University (Nashville), 1876
Vanderbilt University Gymnasium (Nashville), 1880
West Side Row, Vanderbilt University (Nashville), 1886-1887
Residences
Rock Castle (Hendersonville), 1784-1797(?)
Hays-Kiser House (Antioch), ca. 1796
Travellers' Rest (Nashville), 1799-1885
Cragfont (Gallatin), 1802
Oaklands (Murfreesboro), 1815, 1825, 1859-1860
The Hermitage (Nashville), 1819
Wessyngton (Robertson County), 1819
Castalian Springs-Wynnewood (Gallatin), 1828
Carter House (Franklin), 1830
Fairvue (Gallatin), 1832
Rattle and Snap (Columbia), 1845
Adolphus Heiman House (Nashville), 1845-1850(?)
Belmont (Nashville), 1850
Worker's House (Nashville), ca. 1850
Two Rivers (Nashville), 1859
Epilogue
Notes from 2020
