Utopia Hotel
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Utopia Hotel | |
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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°WCoordinates: 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 |
| Governing body | Private |
| NRHP Reference # | 79002428[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 26, 1979 |
The Utopia Hotel is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee.
Location
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
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
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 James A. Hoobler, A Guide to Historic Nashville, Tennessee, The History Press, 2008, p. 81
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ken Roberts, Jr., One for the Road: Stories of Nashville's hard-drinking nightlife, Nashville Scene, June 13, 1996
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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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