Young Women's Christian Association Building (Nashville, Tennessee)

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Young Women's Christian Association Building
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The Young Women's Christian Association Building in 2014
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Location211 7th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Coordinates 36°9′46″N86°47′00.4″W / 36.16278°N 86.783444°W / 36.16278; -86.783444
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built1911
Architect Shattuck and Hussey
Architectural styleGeorgian Revival
NRHP reference No. 82001727 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 16, 1982

The Young Women's Christian Association Building, also known as the Jacques-Miller Office Building, is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

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Location

The building is in Nashville, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. [2] [3] It is located downtown, at 211 7th Avenue North, [3] between Church Street and Union Street, opposite the back of the Sheraton Nashville Downtown. [4]

History

The six-storey building was completed in 1911. [3] It was designed in the Georgian Revival architectural style by Shattuck and Hussey, an architectural firm based in Chicago. [3] Inside, there is a large cast-iron neweled staircase. [3] Percy Warner, a prominent Nashville businessman, served as Chairman of the Building Committee. [3] It was dedicated on May 9, 1911. [3]

The building was home to the Nashville chapter of the Young Women's Christian Association. [3] The association offered boarding facilities for Christian women as well as a gymnasium and a job centre. [3] The first floor was home to the Ophelia Clifton Atchison Memorial Library, named for the mother of Elizabeth Rhodes Atchison Eakin, [5] widow of Nashville banker and philanthropist, John Hill Eakin. [3]

The first chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Nashville No. 1, rented the Vespers room of the YWCA building from 1917 to 1927 for their meetings. [6]

In 1982, the building was redeveloped as an office building. [3] It was renamed the Jacques-Miller Office Building. [3]

Architectural significance

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 16, 1982. [2]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Young Women's Christian Association Building". National Park Service. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Young Women's Christian Association Building". National Park Service. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  4. Google Maps
  5. "Elizabeth Rhodes Atchison Eakin". Find a Grave. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  6. Simpson, John A. (2003). Edith D. Pope and Her Nashville Friends: Guardians of the Lost Cause in the Confederate Veteran. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. p. 83. ISBN   9781572332119. OCLC   428118511.