Historic Nashville, Inc.

HNI Member Tour of Music Row
2023-09-30 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | TN
Join Historic Nashville Inc. for a members only tour of Music Row!
President Brian Mansfield will lead a walking tour of the western outskirts of Music Row, featuring stories about Waylon Jennings and the 1970s outlaw movement, Neil Young, the Allman Brothers, and others. We will meet at 11 am in the alley off Edgehill Avenue behind 1117 17th Ave. S. This walking tour will cover about one mile and end with a light lunch around the guitar-shaped pool adjacent to Spence Manor.
The Spence Manor Motor Hotel was built in a midcentury modern brutalist style to serve the stars (including Elvis Presley) who visited Nashville to record on Music Row. The guitar-shaped pool on the property was built by Webb Pierce to accommodate his fans after his neighbors complained about fans coming to Pierce’s house to see his personal guitar-shaped pool.
Please note: you must be a current HNI member to go on this tour. You can renew your membership here: https://www.historicnashvilleinc.org/get…/membership/
If you are unsure of your membership status, please email info@historicnashvilleinc.org. Attendees with lapsed or no memberships will be billed.

HNI August Historic Happy Hour
2023-08-23 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | Frothy Monkey in The Nations, 1400 51st Ave North, Nashville, TN, 37209, United States
Please join Historic Nashville, Inc. for our August Historic Happy Hour! This event will occur Wednesday, August 23, at 6:00 PM at Frothy Monkey at 1400 51st Ave North in The Nations. Built in 1927 as the Belle Meade Hosiery Mill, this expansive space features original posts, beams, floors, and brick walls. Please come and enjoy this adaptive reuse project and connect with other preservation enthusiasts in Nashville!

HNI Members Only Tour of the Berger Building
2023-07-22 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | TN
Join Historic Nashville Inc. for a members only tour of the Berger Building! This 1926 commercial building has been serving downtown Nashville for nearly a century, and was listed on the National Register in 1984. It holds fascinating stories of Nashville’s commercial and musical history, and is a success story for renovation and presevation.
Join Berger owner Darden Copeland, HNI President Brian Mansfield, and other HNI members for a behind-the-scenes tour of this fascinating space and its preservation story on July 22 at 10 am. We will have refreshments for attendees as well. Get your tickets on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/historic-nashville-members…
Please note: you must be a current HNI member to go on this tour. You can renew your membership here: https://www.historicnashvilleinc.org/get…/membership/
If you are unsure of your membership status, please email info@historicnashvilleinc.org. Attendees with lapsed or no memberships will be billed.

HNI June Happy Hour
2023-06-14 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Monday Night Preservation Co., 1308 Adams Street, Nashville, TN
Please join Historic Nashville, Inc. for our inaugural Historic Happy Hour! Our first event will occur Wednesday, June 14, at 6:00 PM at Monday Night Preservation Co. at 1308 Adams Street in Germantown. This taproom, opened by Atlanta-based Monday Night Brewing, is located in a historic meatpacking building that was constructed in the 1920s for the Neuhoff Packing Company. Please come and enjoy this adaptive reuse project and connect with other preservation enthusiasts in Nashville!

Behind-the Scenes Tour of Hastings Architecture
2022-02-26 10:00 - 11:30 UTC | Hastings Architecture Associates (former Ben West Building), 225 Polk Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
We’re excited to announce the return of members-only Behind-the-Scenes tours! Join us at Hastings Architecture, the former Ben West Library downtown, on Saturday, February 26th at 10:00am.
This is a members-only event, so be sure to renew your membership before you register. The event is free, but registration is required.

2022 Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture
2022-02-11 | TN
The 41st annual Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture is right around the corner! Please save the date for Friday, February 11th, 2022. Out of an abundance of caution related to the spread of COVID-19, the 2022 conference will once again be held virtually. We have several wonderful speakers lined up and, as always, unique entertainment planned. Tickets will go on sale in January on Eventbrite–check our January newsletter and social media for notifications. More details will be shared soon, but we hope you’ll plan to join us! Don’t forget- you can explore past conferences, including videos and photo galleries, anytime on the new conference website.

Nashville Civil War Roundtable
2021-12-21 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | TN
Jim Kay, historian with the Battle of Nashville Trust will present, “Facts and Myths of Lt. Colonel William Shy”–Tuesday, December 21st at 7:00 p.m.
Join Nashville Civil War Roundtable each month to enjoy in depth scholarly presentations from invited guests. All programs are free and open to the public, but the group encourages membership to sustain their educational efforts. Annual dues along with proceeds from the used book sale support programming and local preservation causes.
*Masks Are Required Inside Fort Negley Visitors Center

Metropolitan Historical Commission Meeting
2021-12-20 12:00 - 13:00, 2021-11-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)

Fossil Finders
2021-12-11 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Fort Negley Visitor’s Center, 1100 Fort Negley Blvd, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
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Battle of Nashville 157th Anniversary Living History Event
2021-12-11 09:00 - 16:00 UTC | Fort Negley Visitor’s Center, 1100 Fort Negley Blvd, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
On Saturday, December 11th, Fort Negley will host a Battle of Nashville 157th Anniversary Living History Event + Fort Negley Master Plan Public Meeting from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Join Union soldiers for a day of infantry, signal crops, and artillery demonstrations and help provide input on the master plan!

National Alliance of Preservation Commissions: From Mansards to McMansions: Styles of the Recent Past
2021-12-09 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | TN
About This Webinar

While midcentury modern architecture has received an increasing amount of attention in recent years, many in preservation haven’t yet given much thought to other architectural styles of the recent past. But with the architecture of the 1970s reaching the fifty-year mark, it’s time to give more consideration to what came after modernism. This webinar will be a follow-up to the webinar focused on Brutalist and Postmodern architecture offered earlier this year, focusing on a broader range of styles from the second half of the 20th century from the traditional to the futuristic. We’ll cover styles that need more attention now (Formalism and Expressionism) to those we will be debating in the future (High Tech and Deconstructivism) as well as those we would rather forget (McMansions).
CE Credits: 1.5 AIA/AICP
This webinar is free to NAPC Members. Please use the discount code provided to you via email or contact director@napcommissions.org.

When: Thu, Dec 9, 2021 · 12:00 PM · CST
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Language: English
Who can attend? Anyone with the event link can attend
Ticket Price: $10.00
Dial-in available? (listen only): Yes
Dial-in Number: This is a premium Webinar. Please log in or register for this Webinar to view the dial-in info.

Historic Nashville, Inc. Annual Meeting
2021-12-07 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | TN
Join us for our VIRTUAL Annual Meeting! In addition to guest speaker Dr. Carroll Van West (MTSU’s Center for Historic Preservation and Tennessee State Historian) and keynote Speaker Caroline Eller (Metropolitan Historical Commission), we will also announce the 2021 Nashville Nine.

Historic Mansker's Station Yulefest
2021-12-04 17:00 - 20:00 UTC | Historic Mansker’s Station, 705 Caldwell Dr., Goodlettsville, TN
Yulefest, an annual tradition for Goodlettsville is back for 2021
Yulefest is a cherished part of the holiday tradition for Goodlettsville, and we look forward to hosting the annual event after a brief pause in 2021.
Yulefest kicks off the holiday season with musicians, storytellers, and demonstrators in the cabins of the fort and in the historic home. Visitors can take their time listening to the sounds of yesteryear as they tour the sites and take in the beauty of simple, natural decorations, refreshments and unique shopping at the gift shop. This free event will take place on Saturday, December 4, 2021 from 5:00 – 8:00 pm at the Goodlettsville Visitor’s Center and Historic Mansker’s Station. Overflow parking will be available inside Moss-Wright Park.
Yulefest is a free event and does not require advance reservations.

Fort Negley Guided Walking Tour
2021-12-04 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Fort Negley Visitor’s Center, 1100 Fort Negley Blvd, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
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Beaman Park Nature Center
2021-11-20 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Age level: All ages
Registration is open. Call 615-862-8580 or register by email: beamanpark@nashville.gov.
Learn how the pristine Beaman Park on the Western Highland Rim was preserved and grew to its current 2200+ acres.
Leader: Nature Center Staff

Fort Negley Park Guided Walking Tour
2021-11-20 09:30 - 23:00 (America/Chicago) | Fort Negley Visitor’s Center, 1100 Fort Negley Blvd, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Limited Space – RSVP to FortNegley@nashville.gov

Join us to learn about the story of Fort Negley Park. From a tree top oasis outside early 19th century Nashville, to an imposing fortress guarding the Union stronghold, to restoration and neglect, and its recent addition to UNESCO sites of memory we’ll cover it all on a one-mile guided walking tour.

Attendees are encouraged to wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather.

Approximately 1.5 hours

History Uncorked
2021-11-18 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Presidential Homesteads in the Plantation South
Several U.S. presidents–George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and Andrew Jackson–are closely connected with the plantation houses in which they lived. These stately homes all included neoclassical elements of various kinds, be they drawn from ancient Greece and Rome or from more contemporary interpretations of the classical tradition in England and France. The neoclassicism of these storied houses projected the sophistication of their owners and famous inhabitants.
Join Dr. Kevin D. Murphy on an exploration of the architectural influences of these famous homesteads. Dr. Murphy is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Vanderbilt University.

Raise a glass to the past! The History Uncorked series offers an opportunity to engage with a variety of historical topics while enjoying the community of your fellow history aficionados. With each program focusing on a particular topic, followed by a lively discussion in a casual setting, History Uncorked is an evening of wine, wisdom and words, offered in partnership with Natchez Hills Winery.
Doors open at 6 p.m. for guests to gather, with the presentation starting at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for Hermitage Members and $15 for Non-Members and include one glass of wine from Natchez Hills Winery. Light snacks and additional drinks are available for purchase.
A portion of all sales will support the Andrew Jackson Foundation’s mission to preserve the home place of Andrew Jackson, create learning opportunities and inspire informed citizenship.

Frist at Home: American Art Deco
2021-11-18 13:30 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | TN
Join us wherever you are for a Frist at Home online tour—a closer look at some of the art currently at the museum. Spend thirty minutes in the company of our docents and other art lovers.
This conversation will focus on American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918–1939.
Presented on Zoom; free; registration required

TNCHE Fall 2021 Webinar
2021-11-16 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | TN
Join the Tennessee Council for History Education on Tuesday, November 16 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (central) for “Achieving the Dream and the Reality of Partisan Politics: Tennessee Women After Ratification” with Dr. Carole Bucy. Her talk will be followed by a Q&A session. This virtual program will also include a special presentation for the Gilder Lehrman History Teacher of the Year award.
To register, please complete this form. You will receive a follow-up email from Kira Duke with the link for the virtual event. A certificate will be provided to all those who attended for professional development credit. If you have any questions, please contact her at kira.duke@mtsu.edu.

Historic Trades Day at Travellers Rest
2021-11-13 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | TN
About this event

Historic Travellers Rest presents Historic Trades Day on November 13, 2021 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
This program will feature historic artisans and hands on crafts. Activities and artisans will include:
• Nora Glickstein demonstrating lacemaking.
• Roy Overcast demonstrating pottery making.
• Kelly Hamlin from Wolf Gap demonstrating natural dyes.
• Melissa Goodwin weaving on the loom located in our Weaving House.
• Candle dipping with Travellers Rest staff.
• Guided house tour of Travellers Rest.
• On-site or take-home activities: hanky dolls, thaumatropes, quill pen writing
We hope you will join us at this great on-site program! Tickets can be purchased in advance. Once you have purchased a ticket, you may arrive any time during the program. Enjoy interacting with our wonderful artisans, several who will have wares for sale, tour the historic home, and participate in hands on crafts. Activities will be spread across our grounds so you may visit stations at your own pace. Last admission is at 3 p.m. but guests are welcome to enjoy activities on the grounds until 4 p.m. We recommend planning for 2- 3 hours to enjoy all the activities.
We encourage you to bring your own picnic lunch to enjoy on the grounds.
Tickets are available at www.historic-travellers-rest.eventbrite.com. Adult admission (13+) is $15, students (6 – 12) $10, Educators- $12, and children under 5 are free.
This is primarily an outdoor event, with rain plan.
We will be continually monitoring the COVID outbreak numbers and implementing precautions and guidelines for this event as needed for the safety of our guests and staff.

Historic Nashville Behind-The-Scenes-Tour of Gower Cemetery
2020-04-04 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Centenary United Methodist Church, 6809 Gower Road, Nashville, TN, 37209, United States
Join us Saturday, April 4 at 10:00 am for a tour of Gower Cemetery led by Gower’s descendants Marsha Fagnani and Jana Stephenson
One of the earliest settlers in this area, William Gower (1776-1851) arrived in 1780 at the Bluffs settlement, now Nashville. He and his wife Charlotte Garland settled near Overall Creek in 1800 and had fifteen children, many of whom became prominent community leaders. A Methodist minister for over half a century, William founded Gower’s Chapel on his farmland. A larger chapel, erected in 1850 on Gower land, served as the local schoolhouse. Also on his original farm, The Gower Cemetery was established in 1816 with the burial of William’s mother, Obedience Blakeley Gower.
In early 2017, the Friends of Gower Cemetery initiated efforts to restore and preserve the cemetery with the help of historian Fletch Coke and Tim Walker, Executive Director of the Metro Historical Commission. Metro Nashville Public Works did an initial cleaning and continued to maintain the grounds while work was in progress. Archaeologist, Dan Sumner Allen IV was hired to oversee the restoration; completed in 2018. Mr. Allen has identified 115 burials which include Gower family members and 6 enslaved Gower and Woodward African Americans. There are 13 tombstones for 14 burials. An incredible amount of history for this family, the land, original Gower’s Chapel and present Centenary United Methodist Church has been located by the Friends group.
Important info:
– Free parking at the church
– It is a short walk to the cemetery
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HNI Annual Membership Meeting
2020-01-30 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | The Hermitage Hotel, 231 6th Ave N, Nashville, TN, 37219, United States
Historic Nashville, Inc.’s Annual Membership Meeting is an opportunity to meet and mingle with other Historic Nashville members and learn more about HNI’s plans for the new year. New Board members and officers will be introduced and voted in by the membership at the Annual Meeting.
The 2020 Annual Meeting will feature keynote Tom Vickstrom, Director of Finance at the Hermitage Hotel, who will share the history of the Hermitage Hotel and this historic place’s vital role in women’s suffrage as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote.
There will be hors d’oeuvres and light refreshments.
Guests/Non-member tickets: $15 to be paid in advance or at the door.
RSVP by January 24 at: hni2020meeting.eventbrite.com

HNI Behind-The-Scenes-Tour of The Woman's Club of Nashville
2019-12-07 10:30 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | The Women’s Club of Nashville, 3206 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, TN, 37215, United States
Join us Saturday December 7, 2019 at 10:30 am for a tour of The Woman’s Club of Nashville

** Ticket reservations open Wednesday November 20, 2019 at 6:00 PM**

In 1927 Judge Beauregard Daniel chose a five-acre lot overlooking Hillsboro Pike as the place to build a permanent home for his art collection. The House was to be a lofty white columned Greek Revival house, a perfect setting for his many European treasures.
Having outgrown their previous clubhouse purchased from the Ridley Wills family at 217 Louise Avenue, the J. B. Daniel House, as it is now known, became the home of the Woman’s Club of Nashville on November 14, 1957.
Though the four-story house included 14 rooms, four bathrooms and a full basement, the club’s continued growth in membership made expansion necessary. On December 5, 1977, a contract was signed between the Woman’s Club of Nashville and David F. Lane, Contractor, to add an auditorium to the present building. The auditorium now known as Haley Hall, was named after Lera Herbert Haley, the Club’s first President.
Today, the Woman’s Club of Nashville maintains the preservation and restoration of the House, conforming to the characteristics and architectural structure of the period in which it was built. The House was listed in the National Register of Historic Sites and the Tennessee Register of Historic Sites on May 26, 2016, by the State Review Board of the Tennessee Historical Commission.

Click here for more history about the Woman’s Club

Important info:
– There is parking on the Golf Lane Side of the house and is handicapped accessible.
– Meet at the front entrance.

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Ticket reservations open Wednesday November 20, 2019 at 6:00 PM
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HNI Behind-The-Scenes Tour at The Hermitage Hotel – Headquarters of Woman Suffrage Campaign
2019-08-31 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | The Hermitage Hotel, 231 6th Ave N, Nashville, TN, 37219, United States
Join us Saturday August 31, 2019 at 10:00 am for a tour at The Hermitage Hotel – Headquarters of Woman Suffrage Campaign

** Ticket reservations open Thursday August 8, 2019 at 6:00 PM**

In August 1920 Tennessee’s 33 Senators and 99 Representatives came to Nashville for a special session called by the Governor. At stake was a hotly contested issue of national importance. From all across the United States, leaders and special interest groups arrived and so did news journalists. They called it “The War of the Roses.” The debates progressed in the state capitol for eight days. When it was finished, the United States Constitution was forever amended. The Hermitage Hotel was the center of much of the activities. Its 250 guestrooms rooms & suites, its lobby, meeting rooms, and dining room were filled to overflowing with pro and anti campaigners. Legislator’s votes were influenced, argued, and strategized to an intense degree here. A fundamental right was at stake – one that had been advocated since 1848! The eyes of the nation were on Tennessee. Some 27 million people would be immediately affected by the outcome. It was a make or break legislative vote since Tennessee was the last essential state. Ultimately it was a tie-breaking vote by one legislator that tipped the scales – a shining example that one vote truly does matter.
With this the 19th Amendment of the United States Constitution was passed, giving women the right to vote across the country. Come hear and see more about this at The Hermitage Hotel. The public spaces of this historic hotel will be featured in a step back in time glimpse behind the curtain of history. Narration & tour to be provided by Tom Vickstrom.

Important info:

Meet at historical display area of the lobby.
Complimentary valet parking available to lunch guests; other hourly parking options offered at the public library and various sites nearby.

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Ticket reservations open Thursday August 8, 2019 at 6:00 PM
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HNI Tour of Donelson’s Historic Belair Mansion, now Belle Air Inn “Nashville Nine Success”!
2019-08-28 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Belair Mansion, 2250 Lebanon Pike, Nashville, TN, 37214, United States
Join us on Wednesday August 28, 2019 at 6:30 pm for a very special Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Donelson’s Historic Belle Air Mansion, now Belle Air Inn “Nashville Nine Success”!

** Ticket reservations open Friday August 23, 2019 at 6:00 PM**

The Belair Mansion was included on Historic Nashville’s 2014 Nashville Nine list of endangered properties, and has recently opened as a bed and breakfast, the Belle Air Inn! “A Nashville Nine Success Story”!
Belle Air sits at the beginning of Downtown Donelson and is a very visible historic and civic landmark as you enter the area. Most plantations and pre-civil war Mansions are far out of town with no accessibility to where people want to visit. Belle Air is about 4 miles from the Nashville Airport and 5 ½ miles from downtown along Lebanon Pike. It is unique in that it is almost 6 acres and can be a retreat in the middle of the city. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Belle Air is significant because of its architecture. Representative of the great houses of the well-to-do Southern landowners in the first half of the nineteenth century, it remains as an example of these houses which once were abundant but have now mostly disappeared from the scene. It’s important that Belle Air is preserved for the benefit of those who might not otherwise be able to come in contact with such an example of the architecture of the Old South. Many families prominent in the social and economic development of Nashville have either lived in or been entertained in Belle Air.
Lewis & Connie James have brought this historic treasure back to life with a luxury touch!
Free parking is available on site.
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Ticket reservations open Friday August 23, 2019 at 6:00 PM
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