IMAGES From Nostalgiaville
TENNESSEE -
(UNIVERSITY AREA) - DAVIDSON COUNTY - NASHVILLE, TN - 1997 - Page 2

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MUSIC ROW ATTRACTIONS in UNIVERSITY AREA
Please note that these pictures were taken in 1997 and 1998 and massive changes have been made in Music Row.  Take a walk down "Memory Lane" and look at how things were.

Location closed 12/31/00 after 33 years.  New location opened downtown 5/17/01
Enjoy an informative and entertaining look at country music
See how it influenced 20th century popular culture
Filled with personal mementos of legendary and new performers
Includes visit to RCA's Studio B
Admission charged

COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME

Music Row Scenes ASCAP Building BMI Building

1026 16th Ave S
BUG Music Crook & Chase Celebrity Showplace EMI Music
Ernest Tubb Record Shop Mercury Records-Polygram Records Original Home of Hank Williams Jr

54 Music Sq E

1400 18th Av S

50 Music Sq W
Poly Gram Music RCA Records (BMG Building) SESAC Music United Artists Tower

 

HIGHER EDUCATION in UNIVERSITY AREA
BELMONT UNIVERSITY
College founded 1951
Became a university in 1991
Private, Southern Baptist university
Offers Bachelor's and master's degrees

HISTORY OF BELMONT UNIVERSITY

Dedicated by George A. West to his mother in 1987

Built partially from the stone and brick saved when Blanton Hall burned
Believed to be a symbol of God’s help and personal commitment
KITTY BUGG WEST AMPHITHEATER PHOENIX STATUE
SIGNS OF BELMONT ROAD VIEW OF CAMPUS CENIC CAMPUS CARILLON
LEU ART GALLERY SCHOOL OF MUSIC CABHART STUDENT CENTER STRIPLIN GYMNASIUM HALL RESIDENCE HALL

 

SCARRITT COLLEGE (Now Scarritt-Bennett Center)

Originally called Strother’s Chapel
Built around 1800 to house the first session of the Western Methodist Conference in Tennessee
It was first built in Sumner County
Moved to Scarrit College and open as a Methodist museum in 1931

UNITED METHODIST HISTORIC SITE

SIGNS OF SCARRITT CAMPUS MAP GRAY DINING HALL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

Named The Kern Building in honor of Bishop Paul Bentley Kern
Building also dedicated to John Wesley and Francis Asbury

Memorial plaque dated 1940

GENERAL BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION

GIBSON MEMORIAL RESIDENCE HALL

1008 19th Ave S
Not-for-profit conference, retreat and educational center
email:pr@scarrittbennett.org
OGBURN HOUSE IN DEFENSE OF CREATION... ORGANIC GARDENING SCARRITT-BENNETT CENTER

 

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