A while back there was an announcement of the likely prospects for the 1920s Pryor Brown Garage, the four-story brick building at Market and Church that was very nearly torn down a couple of years ago. If parking garages aren’t […]
Downtown Knoxville
Compiled by Jack Neely for the Knoxville History Project. The Tennessee Theatre’s tall sign, removed this week, is only about 12 years old. A vertical sign was there during the theater’s early years, but it was removed in 1956. When […]
The Knoxville Sessions box-set release of 1929 and 1930 recordings—celebrated with a frequently surprising festival this past weekend—is remarkable for several reasons, nationally or even internationally. It’s a pretty fascinating echo of an underdocumented era from the beginnings of popular […]
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s headquarters is for sale. For years, the presence of a couple of giant blank buildings that aren’t generally open to the public, and are empty most of the time, was a challenge to Market Square development. […]
Is the Cal Johnson Building Still Safe?
April 20, 2016
Last Thursday afternoon, the Metropolitan Planning Commission unexpectedly rejected its own staff’s recommendations and declined to endorse Mayor Rogero’s much-publicized initiative to give the Cal Johnson Building on State Street H-1 historical protection. It takes some imagination to call it […]
This column would be more popular if I just gave in and renamed it Concerts We Have Known. After I wrote about the Civic Coliseum dilemma several weeks ago, I heard from a whole lot of people about a whole […]
St. Patrick’s Day in Knoxville
March 10, 2016
St. Patrick’s Day is an old holiday in Knoxville. Irish immigrants and their families have played a major role in Knoxville history. Several of the city’s early founders were Irish immigrants. At least two delegates to the Constitutional Convention that […]
Searching for Institutions in the Ever-Changing Old City
February 24, 2016
I was recently startled by a story I’d read before. It appeared in The New York Times in February 1999, 17 years ago this month. It was called “Notorious and Proud of It.” The byline belonged to Nancy Bearden Henderson, a […]
When We Were Modern: The Knoxville Seven, and the Store of Tomorrow
February 10, 2016
If you’re curious, after a while you’re likely to run across something about a group of defiantly modern artists called the Knoxville Seven. You might see a surprising abstract here or there, in a gallery or a friend’s house. For […]
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Jack Neely is executive director of the Knoxville History Project. He has become one of Knoxville’s most popular writers and its unofficial historian. Jack is well known for his thoughtful, well-researched, and provocative pieces of long-form journalism, not to mention his books, speeches, and other public appearances...
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