Profile #2 in StoryBoard’s look at progress in historic preservation over the last decade HISTORIC PRESERVATION By Charlie Lambert Usually referred to as the Nineteenth…
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Tag: National Register of Historic Places
Off the Endangered List: A Decade of Progress in Historic Preservation
As we close out 2019, we take a look back at the historic structures that have been saved and repurposed since the dire days, post-2008…
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Dulaney’s Districts: LeMoyne College Historic District
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…
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A House And A City Council At Odds With History, Part II
“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…
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1585 Central Ave: A House, And A City Council, At Odds With History, Part I
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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Getting Central Gardens on the National Register “This Gracious Neighborhood”
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…
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Memphis and Central Gardens During The Preservation Era
Twenty-five years ago, in April of 1993, the Central Gardens Neighborhood gained unanimous approval from the Memphis City Council in becoming the city’s ninth Historic…
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