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Memphis
Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4 Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers.
Memphis has an estimated population of 670,100, making it the largest city in the...
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Graceland
Graceland is a large white-columned mansion and 13.8-acre (56,000 m) estate that was home to Elvis Presley in Memphis. It is located at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the vast Whitehaven community about twelve miles (19 km) from Downtown and less...
Area:
- 0.05504 km² (0.021251 mi² )
University of Memphis
The University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is a flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system.
The University was founded...
Pyramid Arena
The Pyramid Arena is a 20,142-seat arena located in downtown Memphis at the banks of the Mississippi River. The facility was built in 1991 and was originally owned and operated jointly by the city of Memphis and Shelby County. Its unique structure...
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium is a football stadium located at the Mid-South Fairgrounds in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The stadium is the site of the annual AutoZone Liberty Bowl, and is the home field of the University of Memphis...
FedExForum
FedExForum is an arena located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. It is the home of the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA and the National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball program of the University of Memphis (the Tigers), both of whom...
Southwest Tennessee Community College
Southwest Tennessee Community College is a community college operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. It is the result of a 2001 merger between two institutions started by the Regents in the 1960s, the former Shelby...
AutoZone Park
AutoZone Park is a minor league baseball stadium located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee and the home of the Memphis Redbirds of the Pacific Coast League, the AAA affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Designed by Looney Ricks Kiss Architects of...
Beale Street
Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km). It is a significant location in the city's history, as well as in the history of the blues...
T. O. Fuller State Park
T.O. Fuller State Park is a state park in the city of Memphis in West Tennessee. It consists of 1,138 acres (4.6 km²) of mostly forest located in South Memphis on Mitchell Road. It is the only state park within the city limits and is one of the few...
Area:
- 0.6475 km² (0.25 mi² )
Sun Studio
Sun Studio was opened by rock pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 3, 1950. It was originally called Memphis Recording Service, sharing the same building with the Sun Records label business. Reputedly the first...
Area:
- 0.00364 km² (0.0014062 mi² )
National Civil Rights Museum
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, was built around the former Lorraine Motel at 450 Mulberry Street, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
The Lorraine Motel remained open following King's...
Memphis Zoo
The Memphis Zoo, located in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee, is home to more than 3,500 animals representing over 500 different species. Created in April 1906, the zoo has been a major tenant of Overton Park for more than 100 years. The land currently...
Crichton College
Crichton College is a private Christian, liberal arts college located in Memphis, Tennessee.
Crichton College is a four-year, coeducational institution governed by an independent, self-perpetuating Board of Directors. Higher education at Crichton...
Orange Mound
Orange Mound is a neighborhood in the southeastern area of Memphis, Tennessee and was the first African-American neighborhood in the United States to be built by African-Americans. Orange Mound is also an official suburb of South Memphis.
Built on...
Lenox
Lenox is a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee.
Lenox is bounded by Central Avenue on the south, Union Avenue on the north, Cooper Street on the west and East Parkway South on the east.
http://www.i-neighbors.org/index.php
Once its own incorporated...
Mid-South Coliseum
The Mid-South Coliseum, also known as "The Entertainment Capital of the Mid-South", was a multipurpose arena that seated 10,085 people in Memphis, Tennessee. It was built in 1963.
The Coliseum was one of the few stops on the Beatles' final American...
Midtown, Memphis
Architecturally, Midtown is marked with residential vintage housing, specialty stores, and high-rise buildings, often all located on the same avenue. This is partly due to the fact that much of Midtown was constructed prior to the enactment of...
Victorian Village
The Victorian Village District is an area of Memphis, Tennessee.
The Victorian Village is located in the eastern quadrant of downtown Memphis.
During Memphis' early period of growth in the mid 1800s, a few wealthy Memphians built grand, Victorian...
Area:
- 0.11331 km² (0.04375 mi² )
Whitehaven
Whitehaven is a vast predominantly African-American neighborhood in Memphis, first organized in the late 19th century. Its current population is about 50,000.
Whitehaven is the largest neighborhood in South Memphis and is roughly bounded by Brooks...
Cooper-Young
Cooper-Young is an eclectic neighborhood and historic district in the Midtown section of Memphis, Tennessee, named for the intersection of Cooper Street and Young Avenue. The entrance to the neighborhood is marked by the Cooper-Young Trestle, a 150...
Chickasaw Gardens
Chickasaw Gardens is an older upscale neighborhood in midtown Memphis, Tennessee.
Chickasaw Gardens is located near the center of the Interstate 240 loop. It is near the Memphis Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium, the Central Library of the Memphis...
Uptown
Uptown Memphis is a neighborhood located near downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Pinch District are located in the general vicinity.
Uptown was established in the 1840’s by the Greenlaw Brothers. Partners in...
Harbor Town
Harbor Town is an upscale, new urbanism style neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee.
Harbor Town is located just northwest of downtown Memphis, Tennessee on the Mississippi River.
It recently has added an upscale, European-style boutique hotel called...
Frayser
Frayser is a neighborhood in North Memphis, Tennessee.
Frayser is the western tip of a peninsula created by the Loosahatchie and Wolf Rivers as they converge into the Mississippi River just north of Downtown Memphis. Mud Island is the peninsula's...
Central Gardens
Central Gardens is a historic neighborhood in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee.
Central Gardens is bound by York Avenue on the south, Eastmoreland Avenue on the north, Rembert Street on the east, and Cleveland Street on the west.
Listed on the National...
Cordova
Cordova is a community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. Cordova lies on Memphis' northeast side, north of Germantown, and northwest of Collierville.
The majority of Cordova has been annexed by the City of Memphis. The remainder of Cordova...
High Point Terrace
High Point Terrace is a neighborhood located in the heart of the city of Memphis, Tennessee.
High Point Terrace is generally geographically defined as being located north of Walnut Grove Road, east of North Highland Street, south of Summer Avenue...
Raleigh
Raleigh is a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee that borders the suburb of Bartlett and the semi-rural neighborhood of Frayser.
Situated along a high bluff on the Wolf River, Raleigh is one of the highest points in the Memphis area.
Mary Winslow...
Mud Island
Mud Island is not actually an island but a small peninsula, surrounded by the Mississippi River to the west and the Wolf River Harbor to the east. In 1960, the Wolf River was diverted so that it went north of Mud Island, and Mud Island opened to the...
Canale Arena
Canale Arena (formerly De La Salle Gymnasium) is the on-campus athletic facility for Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee.
Canale Arena is home to the Buccaneer and Lady Buccaneer basketball and volleyball teams.
The Buccaneer...
Memphis-Arkansas Bridge
The Memphis & Arkansas Bridge (per its nameplates), also known as the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge or Memphis-Arkansas Memorial Bridge, is a cantilevered through truss bridge carrying Interstate 55 across the Mississippi River between West Memphis,...
Southside
Southside, is a subdistrict located in South Memphis, Tennessee. It is a largely unpopulated area, and contains a notable amount slums and abandoned buildings, many of which were left behind when Memphis underwent massive white flight. In early 2002...
Memorial Park Cemetery, Memphis
Memorial Park Cemetery was founded in 1924 by E. Clovis Hinds on initial 54 acres (.22 km). It is located at 5668 Poplar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee
Different species of trees of different ages, as well as bushes, can be found throughout the...
Peabody Hotel
The Peabody Hotel is a luxury hotel in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. The hotel is well known for the famous "Peabody Ducks" that live on the hotel rooftop, but which make daily treks to the hotel's lobby in a daily "March of Ducks" celebration.
The...
Area:
- 0.00567 km² (0.0021876 mi² )
Memphis National Cemetery
Memphis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the Nutbush neighborhood of the City of Memphis, in Shelby County, Tennessee. It encompasses 44.2 acres (0.18 km), and as of the end of 2007, had 42,184 interments.
Several...
Area:
- 0.17847 km² (0.068909 mi² )
Overton Park
Overton Park is a large, 342-acre public park in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee. The park grounds contain the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Zoo, a 9-hole golf course, Memphis College of Art, Rainbow Lake, Veterans Plaza, Greensward, and other...
Elmwood Cemetery
Historic Elmwood Cemetery is the oldest active cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. It was established in 1852 as one of the first rural garden cemeteries in the South.
Elmwood Cemetery was established as part of the Rural Cemetery Movement of the early...
Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee.(Not to be confused with Hollywood, LA!)
The central point of Hollywood is North Hollywood Street and Chelsea Avenue in the northside of Memphis. It is typically bound by North McLean Boulevard to...
Sterick Building
The Sterick Building is an office building in Memphis, Tennessee. It was designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick & Co., and was completed in 1930—its name is a contraction of the original owners' names R.E. Sterling and Wyatt Hedrick. It is a gothic-style...
Area:
- 0.00202 km² (0.00078128 mi² )
Central High School
for schools of the same name.
Central High School is a public high school (grades 9-12) in Memphis, Tennessee. Since it was founded in the early 1900s, it is often considered the first high school in Memphis; Central is often called "THE" High...
Hickory Hill
Hickory Hill is a middle-class, predominantly African-American neighborhood in the Southeast region of Memphis, Tennessee.
The neighborhood is bounded on the north by where Bill Morris Parkway (385) meets Kirby, and the community of Fox Meadows (or...
Craigmont High School
Craigmont High School is a public high school (grades 9-12) located in Memphis, Tennessee in the Raleigh community. It is part of the Memphis City Schools district. As of 2006, the school principal is Sherilyn Brown. It is home to the city's only...
Orpheum Theatre
The Orpheum in Memphis, Tennessee, built in 1928, is one of the few remaining "movie palaces" of the 1920s. The theatre presents a variety of events from Broadway shows and concerts to films. . A $4.7 million dollar renovation in the 1980s included...
Area:
- 0.00202 km² (0.00078128 mi² )
Shelby Farms
Shelby Farms, located in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, is one the largest urban parks in the United States. At a size of 4,500 acres (18 km), it covers more than five times the area of Central Park in New York City with 843 acres (3.41 km)....
Berclair
Berclair is a district of Memphis, Tennessee. It is named after a major street in this district.
Berclair is bordered by the CSX railroad in the North; Interstate 40, Covington Pike, and Stratford Road in the East; Summer Avenue in the South and...
Riverside
Riverside, is one of the many prominent neighborhoods in South Memphis, Tennessee. The neighborhood includes the famous Kansas Street, Carver High, which is on Pennsylvania Street and Martin Luther King Riverside Park. Blair Hunt (1888-1978), the...
St. Mary's Catholic Church
St. Mary's Catholic Church, located in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, in Shelby County, is a historic Roman Catholic Church. The building is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, a status it gained in 1974.
Area:
- 0.00809 km² (0.0031251 mi² )
Tom Lee Park
Tom Lee Park is a city park located to the immediate west of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, overlooking the Mississippi River. Encompassing about 30 acres (0.12 km²) parallel to the Mississippi River for about one mile (1.6 km), it offers panoramic...
Nutbush
Nutbush is a long-standing neighborhood in northeastern Memphis, Tennessee.
Even though Nutbush has expanded it remains a relatively small area with modestly sized houses.
It is bordered by the CSX railroad to the north; Graham Street to the east;...
Dermon Building
The Dermon Building was constructed in 1925 by Dave Dermon. It was built at a cost of around $800,000. From the time it was constructed, until 1983, it was the home of Dave Dermon Company, and Dave Dermon Insurance. 'Papa' sold the building in the...
Area:
- 0.00121 km² (0.00046877 mi² )
Wolfchase
Wolfchase is a Memphis metropolitan area neighborhood located in northeast Memphis and the suburb of Bartlett. Its name is derived from its proximity to the Wolf River.
The area began to attract development in the late 1980's. It is home to the...
Adventure River
Adventure River was a water park located in Memphis, Tennessee, on the north side of Interstate 40, near Whitten Road. It opened in 1985 and closed in 1998.
Adventure River included a beach, a wave pool, concession stands, and several water slides....
Bud Boogie Beach
Bud Boogie Beach was a small Water park located on Mud Island in Memphis, Tennessee. It opened in 1987 and closed in 1997.
Bud Boogie Beach included a beach, concession stands, a New Orleans-style restaurant and several games including Water...
Hyde Park
Hyde Park (also known as Pocket Town) is an impoverished, predominantly black neighborhood in the Hollywood community of Memphis, Tennessee.
Hyde Park is located on the north side of Memphis, Tennessee, starting around the intersection of Chelsea...
Douglas
Douglass is a community on the north side of Memphis, Tennessee. Douglass was named after Frederick Douglass, who was admired by Reverend William Rush-Plummer, the one-time owner of the land (approximately 40 acres (16 ha)) where the Douglass...
Davies Manor
Davies Manor is the oldest home in Shelby County, Tennessee and possibly West Tennessee. It is a two-story, log and chink home made using white oak logs that is on what was once a plantation with a total of approximately 2,000 acres (8.1 km).
The...
Area:
- 0.02833 km² (0.010938 mi² )
Maxwelton
Maxwelton, currently a private residence, is a single story Victorian Piano Box House located on Southern Avenue near Buntyn's Station along what was the Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
In Middle and West Tennessee, Piano Box Houses were erected...
Area:
- 0.00607 km² (0.0023438 mi² )
Evergreen
Evergreen Historic District is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee.
The most understood borders are Poplar Avenue (and just below) to the south, McLean Boulevard to the east, North Parkway to the north, and Watkins Street to the...
South Main Arts District
The South Main Arts District in Memphis, Tennessee makes up the southern portion of Downtown Memphis. It is located along South Main Street.
Two great points of historical interest in Memphis reside in this area. One is the National Civil Rights...
Normal Station
Normal Station is a neighborhood in East Memphis, Tennessee, anchored by the University of Memphis, formerly Memphis State University, and originally called West Tennessee State Normal School. It is bordered by the University of Memphis to the north...
