Nashville Children's Museum
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| Location | 724 2nd Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 36°9′15″N 86°46′5″W / 36.15417°N 86.76806°WCoordinates: 36°9′15″N 86°46′5″W / 36.15417°N 86.76806°W |
| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | 1853 |
| Architect | Adolphus Heiman |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 71000818[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 6, 1971 |
The Nashville Children's Museum, also known as Lindsley Hall is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Built in the Antebellum South as the main building of the University of Nashville, it served as a Union hospital during the Civil War. It became the Nashville Children's Museum in 1945.
Location
The building is located at 724 2nd Avenue South in Nashville, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee in the Southern United States.[2][3]
History
The building, constructed with grey limestone, was completed in 1853.[3] It was designed by Prussian-born architect Adolphus Heiman in the Gothic Revival architectural style.[3] It was built as the main hall for the University of Nashville while the university was closed from 1850 to 1855 due to a cholera epidemic.[3] It was named Lindsley Hall in honor of Dr John Berrien Lindsley, who served as the Chancellor of the University of Nashville from 1855 to its demise in 1873.[3][4] During the American Civil War, it was turned into a hospital for the Union Army in 1862.[3]
From 1867 to 1905, the building was home to the Montgomery Bell Academy, Peabody College, and the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal College (later renamed Tennessee State University, a historically black university).[3] From 1914 to 1925, it was home to the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.[3] Later, it was used as an armory for the Tennessee State Guard and as a public health center.[3]
The building was turned into the Nashville Children's Museum in 1945.[3]
Architectural significance
It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 6, 1971.[2]
References
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- ↑ Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- 1 2 "Nashville Children's Museum". National Park Service. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Nashville Children's Museum, or Lindsley Hall, University of Nashville". National Park Service. Retrieved October 8, 2015. Accompanying photos
- ↑ Conkin, Paul Keith (2002). Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. pp. 73–102. ISBN 0826514251. OCLC 50228629.