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Image 1 of 1: The structure at 221 Second Avenue North spans an entire city block in the Second Avenue Commercial District. Completed in 1900, the Romanesque and Colonial Revival style building was built for the Gray & Dudley Hardware Company. The company remained in the building until 1942. In 2016, 21c Museum Hotels purchased the space from the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County for six million dollars. The company restored the building, turning it into a boutique hotel and museum. The hotel also features a restaurant, appropriately named Gray & Dudley.
The structure at 221 Second Avenue North spans an entire city block in the Second Avenue Commercial District. Completed in 1900, the Romanesque and Colonial Revival style building was built for the Gray & Dudley Hardware Company. The company remained in the building until 1942. In 2016, 21c Museum Hotels purchased the space from the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County for six million dollars. The company restored the building, turning it into a boutique hotel and museum. The hotel also features a restaurant, appropriately named Gray & Dudley.

The structure at 221 Second Avenue North spans an entire city block in the Second Avenue Commercial District. Completed in 1900, the Romanesque and Colonial Revival style building was built for the Gray & Dudley Hardware Company. The company remained in the building until 1942. In 2016, 21c Museum Hotels purchased the space from the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County for six million dollars. The company restored the building, turning it into a boutique hotel and museum. The hotel also features a restaurant, appropriately named Gray & Dudley.

Gray and Dudley

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The structure at 221 Second Avenue North spans an entire city block in the Second Avenue Commercial District. Completed in 1900, the Romanesque and Colonial Revival style building was built for the Gray & Dudley Hardware Company. The company remained in the building until 1942. In 2016, 21c Museum Hotels purchased the space from the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County for six million dollars. The company restored the building, turning it into a boutique hotel and museum. The hotel also features a restaurant, appropriately named Gray & Dudley.

Title Gray and Dudley
Creator Nashville Historical Foundation
Author Sarah Williams, MTSU Student; 2018
Date 1900; 2017
Address 221 Second Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37201
Type Building
Coverage Area 1
Source Deborah Berke Partners, architecture firm
Contributor Robert Dudley; Houston Dudley; John Gray; Craig Greenberg; J. Jenkins; 21c Nashville, LLC
Subject Architecture; Art; Businesses; Downtown; Food; Museums; New Nashville; New South
Keywords Adaptive Reuse, American Cuisine, Buildings, Colonial Revival, Galleries, Modern Art, Restaurants, Romanesque Revival, Gray and Dudley
Rights CC BY-NC 4.0