Downtown Memphis Archives - Page 2 of 2

Dulaney’s Districts: Pinch-North Main

Dulaney’s Districts Putting neighborhoods on the National Register is an exhaustive, dedicated process. In this special series, the keeper of the Memphis Heritage Historic Properties…

Historic Preservation

Off the Endangered List: The Clayborn Temple

Charlie Lambert January 11, 2020 3 Comments Anasa Troutman Charlie Lambert Clayborn Reborn Clayborn Temple Downtown Memphis Frank Smith Margot Payne Memphis Heritage Keystone National Register of Historic Places National Treasure Neighborhood Preservation Inc.NPS Second Presbyterian Church Steve Barlow

Profile #4 in StoryBoard’s look at progress in historic preservation over the last decade HISTORIC PRESERVATION By Charlie Lambert In 2015, the historic and deteriorating…

Planning & Urbanism

Opportunity Zones: Good for Distressed Memphis Communities or an Opportunity for the Rich?

Austin McLellan October 9, 2019 No Comments Binghampton Downtown Memphis Medical District Millington North Memphis Opportunity Zones Orange Mound PILOT Poplar Corridor South Memphis Union Row University District University of Memphis Whitehaven

URBAN DESIGN REVIEW BOARD By Austin McLellan Select areas in Memphis and Shelby County are open for business as federal Opportunity Zones. The Opportunity Zone…

Historic Preservation

The Universal Life Insurance Building: Designing a Better Memphis

Margot Payne July 11, 2019 No Comments Adaptive Reuse Archie W. Willis Archie W. Willis Sr.Beale Street Danny Thomas Boulevard Downtown Memphis Dr. Joseph Edison Walker Egyptian Revival Fred L. Davis Historic Preservation Mark W. Bonner McKissack & McKissack Memphis Memphis Architecture Memphis Negro Chamber of Commerce Memphis Urban League Self + Tucker Architects Third and Beale Tri-State Bank ULICO Universal Life Insurance Building

“I can only surmise that the founders of Universal Life wanted to make a statement.” Juan Self, Self + Tucker Architects By Margot Payne “To…

Historic Preservation

11 West Huling: A Renovation Worth Its Dough

Margot Payne February 5, 2019 No Comments 11 West Huling Adaptive Reuse AirBnB DCA DMC Downtown Architecture Downtown Memphis Downtown Memphis Commission Memphis Memphis Architecture Renovation The Residence Warehouse

A Renovation Worth Its Dough in Honoring a Former Use: 11 West Huling “A building of such pleasing architectural quality and dignity as would not…

History

Skyline Reflections Old and New

Charlie Lambert October 2, 2018 4 Comments 100 North Main City of Memphis Dermon Building Downtown Architecture Downtown Memphis Exchange Building King Cotton Hotel Memphis Memphis Architecture Memphis Heritage Memphis Heritage Keystone Memphis Skyline One Beale Peabody Hotel Sears Crosstown Skyline Sterick Building

Landmarks Lost and Revived Memphis has about the most arcane, varied city skylines anywhere. Composed of half a dozen true high-rise buildings and a few…

Literature

Mud Island Monorail

Niles Reddick May 16, 2018 No Comments Arkansas Bridge Downtown Memphis Memphis Mississippi River Mud Island Monorail

Editor’s Note: StoryBoard Memphis is proud to introduce to our readers the Southern writer Niles Reddick. Niles, while not new to Southern readers, may be…

History

Part II – Wm C ELLIS & SONS, Memphis, Tenn

Mark Fleischer March 23, 2017 2 Comments Downtown Architecture Downtown Memphis

This is the second photo essay in a series chronicling an important piece of Memphis history. Crossing Peabody, past a vast and soulless parking lot,…