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I was going to try and work on this more this weekend and realize that this is a first effort. This is a rendition of future and under construction towers in the downtown and possible East Bank area.

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Just for fun... Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I got a little impatient and wanted to see what all these projects might look like added to our skyline. So i had a little fu

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*Note: I copied the text from a post I made on another forum. Most of the commentary is not for y'all. Some of this is construction progress. Some is just miscellaneous. I wish I was half as talented

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TBT: Downtown around 1976.  You can see the foundation work being done on the James K. Polk Building and TPAC. Land is cleared and ready for Bank of America/Doubletree Hotel block.  The old Sam Davis and Andrew Jackson Hotels were still standing, as were the two Cain Sloan Dept. Store and Sudekum (Tennessee Theater) buildings. All the development that has happened in the Bicentennial Mall and North Capitol area is a distant vision in the future at this point. 

 

 

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4 hours ago, markhollin said:

TBT: Downtown around 1976.  You can see the foundation work being done on the James K. Polk Building and TPAC. Land is cleared and ready for Bank of America/Doubletree Hotel block.  The old Sam Davis and Andrew Jackson Hotels were still standing, as were the two Cain Sloan Dept. Store and Sudekum (Tennessee Theater) buildings. All the development that has happened in the Bicentennial Mall and North Capitol area is a distant vision in the future at this point. 

 

 

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I think the greatest losses as shown by this photo were the neo-classical and art-deco National Life buildings. What a shame that those things went down for a silly parking lot.  That happened before I ever got to Nashville, but when I saw that stupid marble wall around their open parking lot, I asked if that was where a twin tower was supposed to go. And the answer floored me.  Then I looked up to see what they looked like.  Furthermore, the older one would be a site of significant local and national history as it was where the Grand Ole Opry originated.  Shame! 

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31 minutes ago, MLBrumby said:

I think the greatest losses as shown by this photo were the neo-classical and art-deco National Life buildings. What a shame that those things went down for a silly parking lot.  That happened before I ever got to Nashville, but when I saw that stupid marble wall around their open parking lot, I asked if that was where a twin tower was supposed to go. And the answer floored me.  Then I looked up to see what they looked like.  Furthermore, the older one would be a site of significant local and national history as it was where the Grand Ole Opry originated.  Shame! 

Hmmm...I'm not sure I want to know the answer, but I don't think I know anything about this story...do you mind expounding a little bit on it?  

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Just what I've been able to research... This was the first building built in the 1910s.  This is where the Grand Ole Opry radio program originated on WSM (We Shield Millions).   1942 The company's long association with C.A. Craig and Runcie Clements begins when R.C. Mathews oversees construction of the new 13-story National Life and Accident Insurance Company office complex.: This was the original building.0607fbfb9b88eb6e4c59d20b33f2ec35.jpg   You can see 1940 Art Deco tower right next to it at upper right corner in this skyline photo from late 1950s. 

 

And below photo from 1970s shows the reverse angle. Two buildings. I believe they were demolished at about the same time (circa 1980).  About two years later, the NLT corporation was merged by hostile takeover into American General.  397507850_d5ec363edb_b.jpg

 

As I was going out to find photos, and b.t.w. very difficult just on a quick search, I found this photo of a building I've driven past on several occasions.  I think this is the ugliest building I've ever seen. 

225px-Kaden_tower_scott_ritcher.jpgLincoln Income Life Insurance Company, originally Income Life Insurance of Kentucky was an insurance corporation based in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

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13 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

I think the greatest losses as shown by this photo were the neo-classical and art-deco National Life buildings. What a shame that those things went down for a silly parking lot.  That happened before I ever got to Nashville, but when I saw that stupid marble wall around their open parking lot, I asked if that was where a twin tower was supposed to go. And the answer floored me.  Then I looked up to see what they looked like.  Furthermore, the older one would be a site of significant local and national history as it was where the Grand Ole Opry originated.  Shame! 

Those buildings adjacent to the now-Snodgrass Tower were still there when I was a kid. You could see them diagonally across from through the old library's main floor windows. That was a fully urban and dense block and they cleared the whole thing in the early '80s. Sickening was the word that came to mind. It transformed a block with the new and old that complimented each other into a pseudo-suburban/dystopian windswept mega-plaza, fully divorced from its neighbors. That block has never been the same since. :(

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