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Home Tour Detour: Hidden gems in Central Gardens

“Selfie” homes help highlight the neighborhood’s diverse architectural styles, hidden gems and landmarks alike Jim Williamson, in his introduction to the neighborhood’s architectural guide Central…

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Home Tour Detour: Central Gardens goes digital for 2020

Mark Fleischer September 12, 2020 No Comments Central Gardens Central Gardens Home & Garden Tour Central Gardens Neighborhood Association

‘Tour Detour’ dials back into a rich archive for a clever, ‘selfie’-guided way to enjoy the neighborhood’s historic homes beginning Sunday, September 13 and running…

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Lost Memphis: The Norfleet Home

Josh Whitehead April 14, 2020 No Comments Central Avenue Central Gardens Great Memphis Houses Josh Whitehead Norfleet

The home, which stood at the southwest corner of Central and Roland in Central Gardens, was one of the largest and most unique ever constructed…

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Early History of The “U Club”

Mark Fleischer March 30, 2020 No Comments Bellevue Blvd Central Avenue Central Gardens Central Gardens Neighborhood Association Chickasaw Guards Club Clarence Saunders Cleveland Street Gayoso Hotel Lamar Avenue Napolean Hill mansion Nash Buckingham Pigeon Roost Road Piggly Wiggly Snowden Sterick Building Stories of a Neighborhood University Club

At the intersections of Cleveland Street, Central Avenue and Lamar Avenue, just outside of the Central Garden’s official western border, resides a neighborhood anchor and…

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If You’re Out, Look Up: Midtown’s Arboretums, Canopies of Trees Return

Mark Fleischer March 28, 2020 No Comments Arboretum Central Gardens Cooper-Young Goodbar Avenue Harbert Avenue Trees

Deciduous Distancing need not apply as the weather warms up This spring, we are all hopefully doing our best to practice Safer at Home and…

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Swooning Over Squeaky Floors

Candace Echols September 26, 2019 No Comments Central Gardens Floors Midtown Root Beer

NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES By Candace Echols It was the smell of root beer brewing in the basement. Or at least that’s what they told her. …

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Yes Folks, Fall Is Coming

Candace Echols September 26, 2019 No Comments Autumn Central Gardens Fall Holidays Vince Guaraldi

NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD By Candace Echols Soon, very soon, a morning is going to come and it will bring with it something delightful. We will all…

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A Preview of The Central Gardens Home Tour, the Annual Revival & Walk Thru of Midtown History

Mark Fleischer August 30, 2019 No Comments Belvedere Blvd Central Avenue Central Gardens Central Gardens Home & Garden Tour Central Gardens Neighborhood Association Historic Preservation Immaculate Conception Cathedral Midtown Midtown is Memphis Midtown Memphis Restoration

NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD By Mark Fleischer In mid-1970s Memphis, after two decades of white flight when the physical center of Memphis felt closer to Poplar and…

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1585 Central Ave: A House, And A City Council, At Odds With History, Part I

Mark Fleischer March 29, 2018 5 Comments Ancestry.com Central Avenue Central Gardens Central Gardens Neighborhood Association Cotton Trade Historic Conservation District Historic District Overlay Memphis Landmarks Commission Midtown National Register of Historic Places Norfleet

2018 marks Central Garden’s twenty-fifth year as a Historic Overlay District under the jurisdictional protections of the Memphis Landmarks Commission. For this two-part installment, we…

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“This Gracious Neighborhood”

Mark Fleischer February 21, 2018 No Comments Carl Awsumb Central Gardens Central Gardens Area Association Central Gardens Neighborhood Association Harbert Avenue Jane Jacobs Jim Williamson Memphis Heritage Memphis Landmarks Commission National Register of Historic Places Stories of a Neighborhood The Death and Life of Great American Cities

As a follow-up to both the Neighborhood Improvement Plan and the establishment of the Memphis Landmarks Commission in 1975, the city embarked on a survey…