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Image 1 of 1: The son of Thomas Stratton Senior, who moved to Nashville in 1818, Thomas Edward Stratton (c.1800s) opened a wholesale grocery with Kindred J. Morris (1819-1884) in the consequently name Morris and Stratton Building in 1854. During the Union occupation of Nashville beginning in 1862, it was used as one of twenty-five Union Military Hospitals in the city. In the summer of 1963, the building housed 450 cots and 301 patients. Other than the façade, the building was demolished. The old street number, fourteen, remains on United States Federal shield on the cast iron columns that flank the former entrance.
The son of Thomas Stratton Senior, who moved to Nashville in 1818, Thomas Edward Stratton (c.1800s) opened a wholesale grocery with Kindred J. Morris (1819-1884) in the consequently name Morris and Stratton Building in 1854. During the Union occupation of Nashville beginning in 1862, it was used as one of twenty-five Union Military Hospitals in the city. In the summer of 1963, the building housed 450 cots and 301 patients. Other than the façade, the building was demolished. The old street number, fourteen, remains on United States Federal shield on the cast iron columns that flank the former entrance.

The son of Thomas Stratton Senior, who moved to Nashville in 1818, Thomas Edward Stratton (c.1800s) opened a wholesale grocery with Kindred J. Morris (1819-1884) in the consequently name Morris and Stratton Building in 1854. During the Union occupation of Nashville beginning in 1862, it was used as one of twenty-five Union Military Hospitals in the city. In the summer of 1963, the building housed 450 cots and 301 patients. Other than the façade, the building was demolished. The old street number, fourteen, remains on United States Federal shield on the cast iron columns that flank the former entrance.

Morris and Stratton Building

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The son of Thomas Stratton Senior, who moved to Nashville in 1818, Thomas Edward Stratton (c.1800s) opened a wholesale grocery with Kindred J. Morris (1819-1884) in the consequently name Morris and Stratton Building in 1854. During the Union occupation of Nashville beginning in 1862, it was used as one of twenty-five Union Military Hospitals in the city. In the summer of 1963, the building housed 450 cots and 301 patients. Other than the façade, the building was demolished. The old street number, fourteen, remains on United States Federal shield on the cast iron columns that flank the former entrance.

Title Morris and Stratton Building
Creator Nashville Historical Foundation
Author Sarah Williams, MTSU Student; 2019 Charlie Bailey, University of Virginia Student; 2019
Date 1854
Address 218-220 Second Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37201
Type Building
Coverage Area 1
Source Unknown
Contributor Kindred J. Morris; Thomas Edward Stratton; United States Federal Army
Subject Antebellum; Businesses; Civil War; Downtown
Keywords Buildings, Federal Occupation, Grocery Stores, Hospitals, Union Army, Morris and Stratton Building
Rights CC BY-NC 4.0