Landmark and Legend
Memphis, Tennessee

Here we note legends-in-their-own-time and landmarks as they transition into history — and now also a listing of threatened landmarks!
This site was last updated May 14, 2012
If you know of a landmark that is about to fade into history, you may nominate it for inclusion here by sending information to Landmark and Legend. Alphabetical Table of Contents
Gone
Going
Threatened
Historic Tours, Lectures, Meetings, Etc.
Fortner Furniture/BoJo's Antique Mall clock
Fortner Furniture/BoJo's

Mason branch, YMCA, Memphis
Alfred D. Mason YMCA

Gene Bartow
Gene Bartow

Highland Street Church of Christ
Highland Street Church of Christ

Photograph not available
T. H. Hayes & Sons Funeral Home

Whitehaven Plaza
Whitehaven Plaza Shopping Center
Various original buildings


Union Avenue Methodist Church
Union Avenue Methodist Church Building

Larry Finch
Larry Finch

The Fairgrounds
The Fairgounds

Benjamin L. Hooks
Benjamin L. Hooks

Charlie Vergos
Charlie Vergos

Dana Kirk
Dana Kirk

Anderton’s East restaurant
Anderton’s East restaurant

Photo not available: Vasco Smith
Vasco Smith

Poplar Tunes record shop, 308 Poplar Ave., Memphis
Poplar Tunes

Libertyland
Libertyland

Fred Cook
Fred Cook

Mid-South Fair in Memphis
Mid-South Fair in Memphis

Baptist Memorial Hospital, Medical Center
Baptist Memorial Hospital, Medical Center

Sweetbriar (Ridgeway Trace) Apartments,
Sweetbriar (Ridgeway Trace) Apartments

Memphis Mental Health Institute
Memphis Mental Health Institute

Benihana Restaurant, distinctive architecture
Benihana Restaurant, pagoda architecture

West Hall, University of Memphis
West Hall, University of Memphis

University Center, University of Memphis
University Center, (Student Center), University of Memphis

Photo not available: Crump Stadium
Crump Stadium

Isaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes


Billy J. "Spook" Murphy

W. S. "Babe" Howard
W. S. "Babe" Howard


Lonestar Concrete
Lone Star Concrete

Pyramid Dedication Bricks
Pyramid Dedication Bricks

Some buildings in Poplar Plaza are to be razed for a new, larger Kroger grocery.
Poplar Plaza Addition, Prescott Street Strip

Greyhound bus station, downtown Memphis
Greyhound bus station,
203 Union Avenue


Cleaborn Homes
Cleaborn Homes

The 1977 Air Traffic Control tower at Memphis International Airport.
The 1977 Air Traffic Control Tower at Memphis International Airport


Visibility of the Memphis International Airport Terminal
Memphis International Airport Terminal Visibility




Hotel Chisca
Hotel Chisca

Highland Street branch, Memphis Public Library
Highland Street branch,
Memphis Public Library


Prospect Elementary School also (MCS South Area Office)
Prospect Elementary School

Longview Middle School
Longview Middle School

UTCHS Randolph Hall
Univ. of Tenn. Randolph Hall

UTCHS Feurt Building
Univ. of Tenn. Feurt Building

UTCHS Beale Building
Univ. of Tenn. Beale Building

2100 Union Avenue
2100 Union Avenue

Mid-South Coliseum, Fairgrounds
Mid-South Coliseum

Plaza Theatre - Bookstar
Plaza Theater/Bookstar

Overton Square
Overton Square


The Rowland J. Darnell House
Rowland J. Darnell House


Scottish Rite Building

Sterick Building
Sterick Building


Riverfront Cobblestone Landing


Anderson-Coward House
(Justine's Restaurant)



Harrson-Goyer-Lee House


French Quarter Inn

Public Promenade on the river bluff
Public Promenade on the
Mississippi River Bluff


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Free History Walking Tours, 2012

Historic Downtown Walking ToursJimmy Ogle offers free, handicapped accessible, 45 minute tours of downtown Memphis accompanied by fascinating historical information he presents in a fun and informative way. He has several tours, each covering more or less 4-blocks of historic downtown.
Schedule

Remaining regular Downtown Walking Tours
Unless otherwise noted, the following tours begin at 11:45 a.m.
The 2011 tour walking tour season has ended, the 2012 schedule is below.

  • May 15 - The Pinch District (meet at Main/Overton Trolley Station) (Note: this tour will be conducted by Mike Freeman substituting for Jimmy Ogle)
  • May 22 - Madison Avenue (meet at Madison/Front, University of Memphis Law School)
  • May 29 - Union Avenue Manhole Cover & History Tour (meet at Union/Front, Front Street Deli)
  • Sunday, June 3,  3:06 p.m.,November 6th Street  (meet at 126 Beale Street) - lasts 2+ hours.

Shelby County Courthouse Tours
(meet at at noon on southwest steps of the Courthouse (Second/Adams)

  • Thursday, May 24
Special Tours and Talks

    Riverfront Park Series Walking Tours (all start at 10 a.m.) Each tour includes additional commentary on the Mississippi River and city history.

  • Saturday, May 19-meet at Greenbelt Park, south parking lot near roundabout-Tour includes Greenbelt Park,Harbortown, Wolf Harbor, Montessori School, Harbortown Marina
    Memphis & Arkansas Bridge Walks & Talks (all start at 2 p.m). Meet at Crump Park, just south of I-55 on Metal Museum Drive
  • Saturday, May 19

  Sesquicentennial Civil War Days
  • Wednesday, June 6-Battle of Memphis Sesquicentennial Commemoration, Confederate Park, 12 noon. 

  • Saturday, June 9-10, 10 a.m - 5 p.m. at Mud Island River Park-Mississippi River Museum, costumed interpreters will be stationed in all five Civil War galleries presenting the history of the Civil War that occurred along the Mississippi, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. In the Museum Theatre, various and diverse Lectures and Performances will be given over the two-day weekend.
    Topics:

    • “GONE: A Photographic Plea For Preservation” by Nell Dickerson
    • “The Sultana Tragedy” by Jerry Potter
    • The Naval Battle Of Memphis by Doug Cupples
    • Belles Of The Battlefield by Cookie Swain
    • “FEETS: Colored Troops In The Civil War” by Dr. James Gholson
    • Gen. U. S Grant by Dr. Curt Fields
    • Contraband Camps by Elaine Turner
    • The Moving Appeal by Jimmy Ogle
    • Forrest Raid On Memphis by Alan Doyle & Ed Williams
    • The Civil War And Elmwood Cemetery by Donald Harrison
    • Modern Memphis & The Civil War by Jimmy Ogle
Jimmy Ogle will crank up his "Dutch Treat" Caravans in 2012 with excursions to Randolph, Halls, Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, C.H. Nash Museum Chucalissa and the Sultana steamboat sinking site.

The downtown walking history tours are "not to be missed." Some people, like the editor of this web site, go again and again, enjoy it every time, and wish some of that historical information would sink into his memory. Then again, maybe it's more fun to "learn" about downtown over and over. See you there!

Appreciated as a friend of
Jimmy Ogle tours:
Red Fish Gallery,
Gifts,  & Glass
356 N. Main
Memphis, TN.
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Jimmy Ogle shares history tidbits with a group




Other web sites of related interest:
Memphis Heritage, Inc.
Memphis Landmarks Commission
Original Memphis
Friends for Our Riverfront
The Tennessee Preservation Trust
Memphis Memories
Jimmy Ogle Tours