As the battle between growth and preservation rages, Nashville rarely uses the most lucrative incentive to rehabilitate old buildings, and lags drastically behind Memphis, Knoxville and even Chattanooga over the past 14 years. The federal historic tax credit pays up to 20 percent of the rehabilitation costs to fix up commercial buildings. Developers have taken advantage [...]
Five years after a fire scorched its walls, the Fire Hall for Engine Company No. 18 is being recognized as the newest addition to the National Register of Historic Places, adding new characters to Nashville’s changing story – this one also has a new name, The Station. Following Tennessee Historic Commission guidance and a material [...]
WSMV Channel 4 Not all of the construction going on in Nashville means something brand new. An old east Nashville firehouse is new again thanks to the efforts of one tireless woman. (3/14/16) SOURCE: http://www.wsmv.com/clip/12284729/designer-saves-former-fire-house-from-wrecking-ball
The Historic Fire Hall for Engine Co.18 in Nashville, Tennessee is known and loved by many. It served as a fire station from 1930 to 1986. Due to neglect, the building became an eyesore and eventually a homeless camp. Vacant and deteriorating since an accidental fire in 2011 the Metro Codes Department placed a demolition [...]
"I am one of hundreds of people who drove by the building a hundred times saying, 'What is going on with that building,'" Karen Goodlow explained. Karen and her husband, Gary, began the restoration project this past summer.The fire hall was built in the 1930's and served the community for nearly half a century before [...]
The new owner of the once-dilapidated firehouse on Gallatin Avenue in East Nashville is asking for financial help to bring new life to the historic structure. Nashville interior designer Karen Goodlow — who took ownership of the former Gallatin Road Fire Hall Engine No. 18 at 1220 Gallatin Ave. from Wal-Mart in June — is seeking $35,000 [...]
From left to right: Lori Walters from Winn Engineering, Karen from Karen Goodlow Designs, Lisa de Araujo Jorge from A&M Builders and Karina Young from Organicus Architecture.[/caption] A local resident with a passion for creating community has plans to rehab a long vacant, historic East Nashville building that served as a firehouse for more [...]
Neighbors in east Nashville are fighting to keep the city from tearing down a fire hall with a lot of history. The city says the building isn't safe, but one group says it needs more time to fix it. A fire allegedly set by a homeless man two years ago gutted the Gallatin Pike [...]
A North Edgefield neighborhood group filed a petition Monday in Davidson County Chancery Court to suspend a demolition order for a historic East Nashville fire hall, continuing an 18-month fight against Walmart for the building’s ownership.Walmart obtained the Gallatin Pike property when it rezoned a shopping center in 2007 and turned the fire hall over [...]
Nashville, Tenn. – Dec. 2, 2011 – After serving its community as a firehouse for more than 40 years, and with hopes for a neighborhood art center left unrealized, the historic Gallatin Road Fire Hall Engine No. 18 was damaged by a structure fire last night. One person was injured and serious damage inflicted on [...]
