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Evergreen is located in the area of Memphis known as Midtown. This area of the city includes Overton Park , which is one of the largest urban parks in the nation; it also includes the Memphis Zoo . Community
Madison Avenue, which served as pre-World War II Memphis' main east–west corridor, and now feeds the Overton Square district; McLean Boulevard, which is a primary north–south connector of residential neighborhoods; Cooper Street, which connects Overton Park to the Overton Square, Idlewild, Lenox and Cooper-Young neighborhoods;
Poplar Avenue, a major road through East Memphis, runs by prominent buildings including White Station Tower (rear left) and Clark Tower (rear right).. East Memphis is a region of Memphis, Tennessee with several defined and informal subdivisions and neighborhoods such as Colonial Acres, White Station-Yates, Sherwood Forest, Normal Station, High Point Terrace, Belle Meade, Normandy Meadows, St ...
They consist of South Parkway, East Parkway, and North Parkway. [citation needed] Designed by George Kessler, the Parkway System connects Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park with Overton Park. The system was put on the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1989. [citation needed]
Glenview Historic District is a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 1999. [1] The neighborhood is between South Memphis and Midtown and bounded by the Illinois Central Railroad on the west, Lamar Ave on the east, Southern Ave on the north and South Parkway on the south.
In Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe the U.S. Supreme Court finally saved the Old Forest from highway construction plans in 1971. In 1987, the Tennessee Department of Transportation deeded the 26-acre corridor back to the City of Memphis. In 2008, the Memphis Zoo clear-cut 4 acres (16,000 m 2) to make way for a new exhibit, Teton Trek ...
During Memphis' early period of growth in the mid-19th century, a few wealthy Memphians built grand, Victorian-style homes in what was then the outskirts of the city. The homes in Victorian Village were built from 1846 into the 1890s, and range in style from Neo-classical through Late Gothic Revival. [ 2 ]