The Jefferson Street Historic District in Brownsville, Tennessee is a 1.4 acres (0.57 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.[1]
East Main Street Historic District | |
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| Location | Roughly bounded by Margin & E. Main Sts., S. Jackson & Washington Aves., Brownsville, Tennessee |
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| Coordinates | 35°35′34″N 89°15′42″W / 35.59278°N 89.26167°W |
| Area | 1.4 acres (0.57 ha) |
| Architect | Multiple |
| NRHP reference No. | 14001225[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 28, 2016 |
It is an area which emerged in the early 1900s as the center for the city’s African-American community. While African Americans could shop in the white-owned businesses on the court square, they were often discriminated against. With the rise of the city’s African-American middle class, several businesses evolved along Jefferson Street. The majority of these buildings are One-Part and Two-Part Commercial Block buildings with modest detailing.[2]
The listing included 13 contributing buildings and one contributing site (a community park), as well as three non-contributing buildings and a non-contributing site (site of a demolished building).[2]
The contributing resources are:
- C.P. Boyd Park (c.1948), South Jackson Ave. Was a "Negro tent" from 1887 to 1896, a frame residence from 1896 to 1944, and a park from 1948 to the present, with a wooden gazebo and park benches.
- 35 South Jackson Avenue (c.1935), a one-part commercial block
- 36(B) South Jackson Avenue (c.1947), a two-part commercial block
- 39(B) S. Jackson Avenue (c.1943), a two-part commercial block
- 14 East Jefferson Street (c.1900), a two-part commercial block with brick corbelling
- 18 East Jefferson Street (c.1919), a one-part commercial block, brick
- 22 East Jefferson Street (c.1910), a one-part commercial block with two storefronts
- 29 (A) East Jefferson Street (c.1964), a one-story commercial building
- 29 (B) East Jefferson Street (c.1948), a one-story concrete block building
- Winfield Lodge #52, 33 East Jefferson Street (c.1910), one-part commercial block, with stepped brick parapet and brick corbelling
- 34 (A) East Jefferson Street (c.1908), a one-part commercial block
- 34 (B) East Jefferson Street (c.1957), a one-story concrete block commercial building
- 34 (C) East Jefferson Street (c.1948), a one-story brick veneer concrete block commercial building
- 34 East Main Street (c.1906), one-part commercial block[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Jefferson Street Historic District, at NPS
- ^ a b c Rebecca Hightower (January 6, 2016). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Jefferson Street Historic District" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved May 1, 2017.