News and Views on efforts to protect our city’s architectural heritage and unique sense of Place
With Wednesday’s approval by Tennessee State Review Board, the applications now move on to the National Park Service for final review and listing on the…
Read More Grigg’s Business College building and the Ell Persons Lynching site move to final step toward historic National Register listings
Our friend Vincent Astor passed away Monday, January 16. We are republishing this article in his honor. This was originally published in November, 2020 MEMPHIS,…
Read More REFLECTIONS: The Orpheum Welcomes Back the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ
Two Landmarks endorsements put stamps of approval on the first steps toward honoring and restoring local African American histories For last Thursday’s Memphis Landmarks Commission…
Read More Early holiday celebration for two historic sites endorsed by Memphis Landmarks: 492 Vance Ave & Persons’ 1917 lynching site
Region’s Best Architectural Event Back Live After COVID Pause The Central Gardens Association is thrilled to welcome neighbors and friends from around the region back…
Read More Back Live: Central Gardens 46th Annual Home and Garden Tour Returns Sunday, September 11
Two short blocks west of Florida Street, just south of the railroad underpass near Loflin Yard, drivers may turn west on Virginia Ave West and…
Read More Love For City. Art and Preservation done right: The Medicine Factory
Also, solid advice for homeowners on alternatives to painting brick when that newer brick doesn’t quite match the older Updated in February, 2022, this article…
Read More Painted & Tainted: A primer on why painting exposed brick is usually a Big No-No
In the year of its 50th anniversary, a look back at the headlines, development and lingering aftermath of the epic, 1971 Citizens to Preserve Overton…
Read More ‘It’s Too Late to Tinker’ With Expressway Route
Feature image from the Memphis Press-Scimitar editorial page on March 7, 1968, three years before the Supreme Court decision (Memphis Public Library) The focal point…
Read More Your Memphis Memories: ‘It’s Too Late To Tinker’ With Expressway Route
Clayborn Reborn From the Archives: Originally published in May, 2019 By Margot Payne Sometimes it takes decay, or the near total loss of a tangible…
Read More The Sacred and the Vulnerable in the Clayborn Temple
UPDATED 11/10: With a demolition permit now filed, StoryBoard joins the building’s former owner to discuss the building and imagines possible re-uses for it UPDATED:…
Read More A Vision for the Nylon Net Building, #7 Vance