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Downtown Knoxville is the downtown area of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It contains the city's central business district and primary city and county municipal offices. It is also home to several retail establishments, residential buildings, the city's convention center, and World's Fair Park .
SR 331 begins in Knoxville at an intersection with US 441/SR 33 (Broadway). SR 331 goes north as Old Broadway to enter Fountain City, where it has an interchange with I-640/US 25W (Exit 6) before having a partial interchange with US 441/SR 33. It then turns northeast to come to a Y-Intersection between Jacksboro Pike and Tazewell Pike, where SR ...
Images of America: Knoxville. (Arcadia Publishing, 2003). Humes, Thomas W. The Half-Century of Knoxville: Being the Address and Proceedings at the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town, February 10, 1842. To which is added an appendix: containing a number of historical documents.
An 1871 map of Knoxville shows scant development along "Broad Street" (Broadway) north of the Knoxville National Cemetery. [4] In the years after the Civil War, however, Knoxville's railroad access and an influx of northern capital helped make Knoxville a major warehousing and textile manufacturing center, bringing about an exponential increase ...
North Knoxville is the section of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, that lies north of the city's downtown area. It is concentrated around Broadway ( US-441 ), Clinton Highway ( US-25W ), Tazewell Pike (TN-331), Washington Pike, and adjacent roads, and includes the neighborhoods of Fountain City , Inskip-Norwood, Oakwood-Lincoln Park, Old North ...
The buildings were listed for their architecture and their role in Knoxville's late-19th and early-20th century wholesaling industry. [1] The district's original 1973 listing included the warehouses on the north side of West Jackson Avenue (i.e., 103, 121-123, 125-127, and 129-131) and Sullivan's Saloon (100 East Jackson).
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The Knoxville Banking & Trust Building became a prestigious address for Knoxville professionals, and in 1917, Atkin bought the building and honorarily named it after his wife, Mary Burwell (1871-1949). Measuring 166 feet (51 m) in height, the Burwell was Knoxville's tallest building until the completion of the Holston in 1913.