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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 ...
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]
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]
On Sept. 13, the Center City Revenue Finance Corp., an affiliate board of the Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC), approved a 10-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes for a 150-room Holiday Inn Express.
The Lichterman Nature Center, the first accredited nature center in the United States, is part of the museum, as well as the Coon Creek Science Center, an education center which is open to organized groups and features a fossil site. [1] The Mallory-Neely House and Magevney House are also part of the museum. The Mallory-Neely House is a three ...
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.
An excellent multimedia exhibit, "POMPEII: The Exhibition," opens on Feb. 16 just 90 minutes or so down the road from Columbus at the Cincinnati Museum Center (cincymuseum.org).
Take a peek inside the converted second-story bedroom in Germantown that has become crucial to the Memphis Tigers' efforts to showcase their past.