Southern Methodist Publishing House

The Southern Methodist Publishing House is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Southern Methodist Publishing House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Southern Methodist Publishing House in 2010
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Location	810 Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Coordinates	36°9′32.8″N 86°46′58.3″W
Area	0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built	1906
Architectural style	Commercial style
NRHP reference No.	84003519[1]
Added to NRHP	September 13, 1984

Location

The building is located at 810 Broadway in Nashville, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.[2][3] It is located on the corner of Broadway and Ninth Avenue.[3]

History

The Southern Methodist Publishing House was first established by Reverend Alexander Little Page Green.[4]

The five-storey building was completed in 1906.[2] It was built with steel and concrete, with a limestone and brick facade.[3] There is also a basement.[3] It was designed in the Commercial architectural style, with Neoclassical finishes.[3] It was built as a publishing house for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.[3]

In 1957, the building was converted into an annex for the University of Tennessee at Nashville.[3] However, the university moved out of the building by the 1970s.[3]

Architectural significance

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since September 13, 1984.[2]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Southern Methodist Publishing House". National Park Service. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
3. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: Southern Methodist Publishing House". National Park Service. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
4. "Gone to His Rest.The Venerable A.L.P. Green, D.D., After Great Afflictions, Sinks into the Sleep of Death. Biographical Sketch of One of the Most Eminent Ministers in the Southern Methodist Church". Clarksville Chronicle (reprinted from the Nashville Banner). Clarksville, Tennessee. July 25, 1874. p. 1. Retrieved April 19, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

Further reading

• "Nashville: Publishing Bibles Is Big Business", Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1986
• Jan Blodgett (1997). Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-30395-1.