Utopia Hotel

The Utopia Hotel is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee.

Utopia Hotel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The former Utopia Hotel, January 2014
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Location	206 4th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Coordinates	36°9′51″N 86°46′43″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

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

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. James A. Hoobler, A Guide to Historic Nashville, Tennessee, The History Press, 2008, p. 81
3. Ken Roberts, Jr., One for the Road: Stories of Nashville's hard-drinking nightlife, Nashville Scene, June 13, 1996
4. Getahn Ward, Boutique hotel planned for Lonnie's Western Room, Brass Stables site in Printers Alley, The Tennessean, July 17, 2014