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Image 1 of 1: Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged was built on Eighteenth Avenue South in 1916, decades before the area was known as Music Row. The building was designed by Christian Albert Asmus (1865-1954), a prominent local architect who designed over five-hundred buildings in Nashville between 1892 and 1945. The home was a nursing home for senior citizens who lacked family and/or financial means for elder care. Since 1989, it has housed music industry related businesses, most notably Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The building was sold to Vanderbilt University for twelve million dollars in 2015. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged was built on Eighteenth Avenue South in 1916, decades before the area was known as Music Row. The building was designed by Christian Albert Asmus (1865-1954), a prominent local architect who designed over five-hundred buildings in Nashville between 1892 and 1945. The home was a nursing home for senior citizens who lacked family and/or financial means for elder care. Since 1989, it has housed music industry related businesses, most notably Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The building was sold to Vanderbilt University for twelve million dollars in 2015. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged was built on Eighteenth Avenue South in 1916, decades before the area was known as Music Row. The building was designed by Christian Albert Asmus (1865-1954), a prominent local architect who designed over five-hundred buildings in Nashville between 1892 and 1945. The home was a nursing home for senior citizens who lacked family and/or financial means for elder care. Since 1989, it has housed music industry related businesses, most notably Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The building was sold to Vanderbilt University for twelve million dollars in 2015. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Little Sisters of the Poor

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Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged was built on Eighteenth Avenue South in 1916, decades before the area was known as Music Row. The building was designed by Christian Albert Asmus (1865-1954), a prominent local architect who designed over five-hundred buildings in Nashville between 1892 and 1945. The home was a nursing home for senior citizens who lacked family and/or financial means for elder care. Since 1989, it has housed music industry related businesses, most notably Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The building was sold to Vanderbilt University for twelve million dollars in 2015. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Title Little Sisters of the Poor
Creator Nashville Historical Foundation
Author Mary Ellen Pethel, Staff; October, 2018
Date 1916; 1989; 2012
Address 1400 Eighteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203
Type Building
Coverage Area 3
Source Albert Amus, architect
Contributor Little Sisters of the Poor; Sony; Bertelsmann Music Group; Vanderbilt University
Subject Architecture; Businesses; Entertainment; Health and Disease; Industry; Music; Neighborhoods; New Nashville; New South; Post-World War II; Religion; National Register of Historic Places
Keywords Adaptive Reuse, Buildings, Music Industry, Music Row, Record Label, Renaissance Revival, Little Jimmy Dickens Statue
Rights CC BY-NC 4.0