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Image 1 of 1: This four-story building, once home to the Baptist Sunday School Board, was completed in 1913 by architecture firm Gardner and Seal. Constructed with gray granite, it was designed in the Neoclassical architectural style and uses the Roman Corinthian Order. The Frost Building was named in honor of Dr. James Marion Frost (1848-1916), a Southern Baptist preacher and founder of the Baptist Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
This four-story building, once home to the Baptist Sunday School Board, was completed in 1913 by architecture firm Gardner and Seal. Constructed with gray granite, it was designed in the Neoclassical architectural style and uses the Roman Corinthian Order. The Frost Building was named in honor of Dr. James Marion Frost (1848-1916), a Southern Baptist preacher and founder of the Baptist Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

This four-story building, once home to the Baptist Sunday School Board, was completed in 1913 by architecture firm Gardner and Seal. Constructed with gray granite, it was designed in the Neoclassical architectural style and uses the Roman Corinthian Order. The Frost Building was named in honor of Dr. James Marion Frost (1848-1916), a Southern Baptist preacher and founder of the Baptist Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Frost Building

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Description

This four-story building, once home to the Baptist Sunday School Board, was completed in 1913 by architecture firm Gardner and Seal. Constructed with gray granite, it was designed in the Neoclassical architectural style and uses the Roman Corinthian Order. The Frost Building was named in honor of Dr. James Marion Frost (1848-1916), a Southern Baptist preacher and founder of the Baptist Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Title Frost Building
Creator Nashville Historical Foundation
Author Tim Walker, NHF Executive Director; 2018
Date 1913
Address 161 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37203
Type Building
Coverage Area 1
Source Gardner and Seal, architecture firm; Hart Freeland Roberts, architecture firm
Contributor Dr. J. M. Frost; Southern Baptist Convention
Subject Architecture; Businesses; Downtown; Industry; New South; Religion; National Register of Historic Places
Keywords Adaptive Reuse, Buildings, Classical Revival, Publishing, Southern Baptist, Sunday School Movement, Frost Building
Rights CC BY-NC 4.0