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The homes in Victorian Village were built from 1846 into the 1890s, and range in style from Neo-classical through Late Gothic Revival. [2] Edward C. Jones, one of Memphis's most significant Victorian-era architects, and his partner, Matthias Harvey Baldwin, built the Woodruff-Fontaine House (1870) and renovated the Harsson-Goyer-Lee House (1871 ...
Memphis Museum of Natural History and Industrial Arts opens. Sterick Building constructed. Population: 253,143. [9] 1931 Memphis World newspaper begins publication. [11] Cotton Carnival begins. [3] [24] 1932 – Memphis Times newspaper begins publication. [4] 1936 – Memphis Academy of Art founded. 1937 – Firestone factory in operation in ...
In 1972, the Victorian Village district of Memphis was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1973 the mansion was adapted for use as a house museum, featuring furnishings of the Victorian era. [2] The museum is operated by the City of Memphis and Museums Inc. since 1987 and is part of the Pink Palace Family of Museums. [3] [4]
In May 2022, the Memphis and Shelby County Land use and Control Board approved plans to convert the site into a 126-unit apartment building. Parkview was built in 1923 as a 165-room apartment hotel.
From about 10,000 BCE, Paleo-Indians and later Archaic-Indians lived as communities of hunter-gatherers in the area that covers the modern-day southern United States. [4] [5] Approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi River Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a mound-building Native American people who had developed in the late Woodland Indian period.
During the late 1830s and early 1840s, three important events in Memphis religious history took place in the cottage. In 1839, the first Catholic mass in Memphis was celebrated in the house. In 1840, a priest officiated at the first Catholic marriage in the city. In 1841, the first Catholic baptism of Memphis was performed at the Magevney ...
No city on Earth packs as much musical history as Memphis, and for those visiting the city, you can experience much of that story through its musical museums and tourism sites.
Mallory-Neely House, a historic home in the Victorian Village of Memphis [4] Magevney House, a historic home in the Victorian Village of Memphis [5] The Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium houses a museum of local cultural and natural history, [6] the Crew Training International (CTI) 3D Giant Theater [7] and the Sharpe Planetarium. [8]