Walnut Avenue after 1907 Alec Riedl Collection LR

Looking north on Walnut Street from in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church around the early 1900s. The first iteration of St. John’s was originally built here in 1862 and remodeled in the 1890s. Further down the road on the left, the Second Presbyterian Church (now on Kingston Pike just west of Neyland Drive) is already in its second downtown location. Today, Lawson McGhee Library stands on this spot. Although not in the picture, the southerly portion of Walnut Street, as it leads to Main Street, is a slight dog leg around the Park House—just like it is today. For this reason, Walnut was formerly called Crooked Street. Shared by Alec Riedl.