Built 1936-37 NRHP Reference # 87000670 | Architectural style Art Deco Added to NRHP March 23, 1987 | |
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Location Public Sq., Nashville, Tennessee Architect Heirons,Frederick; Woolwine,Emmons |
Davidson County Courthouse, also known as Metropolitan Courthouse, is an Art Deco building built during 1936-37 in Nashville, Tennessee. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
It is an eight-story steelframe building sheathed with light beige Indiana limestone and gray-green granite as trim at entrances. It was designed by Nashville architect Emmons H. Woolwine and Hirons and Dennison of New York, who won a design competition for the project. It was the first building with central air conditioning in Davidson County.
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Davidson County Courthouse (Nashville, Tennessee) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA