“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…
Read More Home Tour Detour: Hidden gems in Central Gardens
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…
Read More Lost Memphis: The Norfleet Home
At the intersections of Cleveland Street, Central Avenue and Lamar Avenue, just outside of the Central Garden’s official western border, resides the University Club –…
Read More Early History of The “U Club”
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…
Read More If You’re Out, Look Up: Midtown Arboretums, Canopies of Trees Return
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. …
Read More Swooning Over Squeaky Floors
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…
Read More Yes Folks, Fall Is Coming
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…
Read More A Preview of The Central Gardens Home Tour, the Annual Revival & Walk Thru of Midtown History
“We’re completely outraged…” It was the summer of 1992. For Midtowners who had quietly filed out of council chambers after a July 28 meeting at…
Read More A House And A City Council At Odds With History, Part II
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…
Read More 1585 Central Ave: A House, And A City Council, At Odds With History, Part I
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…
Read More Getting Central Gardens on the National Register “This Gracious Neighborhood”