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Originally Posted by JJG
.... never understood what was up with Nashville and the Parthenon.
It's part of a larger Southeastern obsession with Greek Revival architecture during the 19th century. There is hardly a city in the Southeast you could go and not see an example of it.
wow those parks look AMAZING. Nashville was already on my list of cities to see for sure. These photos just bumped it up that list quite a bit though.
do you know the architect of that Parthenon styled building? William Strickland made a bunch of amazing buildings here in Philadelphia including the Second Bank which is modeled after the Parthenon. I bring this up because I know he died in Nashville while he was building the state capital building there, was wondering if maybe this was another of his works.
wow those parks look AMAZING. Nashville was already on my list of cities to see for sure. These photos just bumped it up that list quite a bit though.
do you know the architect of that Parthenon styled building? William Strickland made a bunch of amazing buildings here in Philadelphia including the Second Bank which is modeled after the Parthenon. I bring this up because I know he died in Nashville while he was building the state capital building there, was wondering if maybe this was another of his works.
According to wikipedia, the architects were William B. Dinsmoor and Russell E. Hart.
The building was constructed in 1897 as part of Tennessee's Centennial Expo...so that was well after Strickland's death.
However, besides the State Capitol (where he is buried, in fact), he constructed several other buildings in Nashville. The surviving examples are St. Mary's Catholic Church, the Belmont Mansion, and the Downtown Presbyterian Church (an absolute must-see interior if you come...done in Egyptian Revival style).
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Philly's got the best urban park system, at the very least the most underrated.
As nice as that would be, it really, really doesn't.
Fairmount Park needs a lot of work for it to live up to its potential.
The Wissahickon is great (though not well-used, which granted is a part of it's charm) but it's on the outskirts of the city. The Parks system overall is grossly underfunded, undermaintained, and has accessibility issues. This is something that I really wish Philly would step up to the plate on.
Like for starters, how about turning that abandoned reservoir in East Fairmount Park into a lake for recreation, instead of a barbed-wire enclosed overgrown pit? Other cities have done similar things with great success.
Also that little park next to st. James is really charming!
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