Utopia Hotel
Utopia Hotel | |
 The former Utopia Hotel, January 2014 | |
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| Location | 206 4th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA |
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| Coordinates | 36°9′51″N 86°46′43″W / 36.16417°N 86.77861°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1891 |
| Architect | Hugh Cathcart Thompson |
| Architectural style | Romanesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 79002428[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 26, 1979 |
The Utopia Hotel is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee.
Location
[edit]The building is located at 206 4th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee.[2] The street was called the "Men's Quarter," where no respectable woman would venture.[2]
History
[edit]The hotel was built in 1891 to the design of architect Hugh Cathcart Thompson.[2] It was built to accommodate the visitors of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.[2] It has six storeys.[2]
In 1904, it became home to a restaurant, where many men would have lunch on their workdays.[3] It was dedicated with a dinner for the Nashville Press Club.[3] Later, it became home to a laundromat called Downtown Cleaners and a strip club called Brass Stables.[4]
In 2014, it was scheduled to be turned into a luxury hotel alongside other buildings around it, with developer Bill Barkley and investors Alex Marks and Billy Frist at the helm.[4]
It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings since March 26, 1979.
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e James A. Hoobler, A Guide to Historic Nashville, Tennessee, The History Press, 2008, p. 81 [1]
- ^ a b Ken Roberts, Jr., One for the Road: Stories of Nashville's hard-drinking nightlife, Nashville Scene, June 13, 1996
- ^ a b Getahn Ward, Boutique hotel planned for Lonnie's Western Room, Brass Stables site in Printers Alley, The Tennessean, July 17, 2014
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