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 January 3, 2012
Alert: The Rowland J. Darnell House, headquarters of the Nineteenth Century Club, to be auctioned December 3-5
| 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, Advertisements |
 Gene Bartow  Highland Street Church of Christ  T. H. Hayes & Sons Funeral Home  Union Avenue Methodist Church Building  Larry Finch  The Fairgounds  Benjamin L. Hooks  Charlie Vergos  Dana Kirk  Anderton’s East restaurant Vasco Smith  Poplar Tunes  Libertyland  Fred Cook  Mid-South Fair in Memphis  Baptist Memorial Hospital, Medical Center  Sweetbriar (Ridgeway Trace) Apartments  Memphis Mental Health Institute  Benihana Restaurant, pagoda architecture  West Hall, University of Memphis  University Center, (Student Center), University of Memphis Crump Stadium  Isaac Hayes  Billy J. "Spook" Murphy  W. S. "Babe" Howard |
 Greyhound bus station, 203 Union Avenue  Cleaborn Homes  The 1977 Air Traffic Control Tower at Memphis International Airport  Memphis International Airport Terminal Visibility |
 Hotel Chisca  Highland Street branch, Memphis Public Library  Prospect Elementary School  Longview Middle School  Univ. of Tenn. Randolph Hall  Univ. of Tenn. Feurt Building  Univ. of Tenn. Beale Building  2100 Union Avenue  Mid-South Coliseum  Plaza Theater/Bookstar  Overton Square  Rowland J. Darnell House  Scottish Rite Building  Sterick Building  Riverfront Cobblestone Landing  Anderson-Coward House (Justine's Restaurant)  Harrson-Goyer-Lee House  French Quarter Inn Public Promenade on the Mississippi River Bluff |
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Free History Walking
Tours, 2011-2012  Jimmy
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
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.
Shelby County Courthouse Tours (meet at southwest steps of the Courthouse (Second/Adams)
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
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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