The Ryman Auditorium took seven years and $100,000 to erect. Commissioned by steamboat captain Thomas Ryman (1841-1904), the Ryman was initially built as the Union Gospel Tabernacle in 1892. The design by Hugh Cathcart Thompson (1829-1919) features a gabled roof, gabled front-entrance, and Gothic lancet windows, all in the Victorian Gothic style. The first concert at the auditorium occurred in 1892 as a fundraiser to save Andrew Jackson's home in downtown Nashville. Four years later, the famous Fisk Jubilee Singers performed. It is most famous for being the home of the Grand Ole Opry for thirty-one years. The Opry returned to the venue in 1999 to celebrate twenty-fives years at the Grand Ole Opry House and in 2010 when the house was undergoing repairs required after the Nashville flood. Now operating as Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc., the Ryman underwent extensive renovations in 2015. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and became a National Historic Landmark in 2001.
Ryman Auditorium
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The Ryman Auditorium took seven years and $100,000 to erect. Commissioned by steamboat captain Thomas Ryman (1841-1904), the Ryman was initially built as the Union Gospel Tabernacle in 1892. The design by Hugh Cathcart Thompson (1829-1919) features a gabled roof, gabled front-entrance, and Gothic lancet windows, all in the Victorian Gothic style. The first concert at the auditorium occurred in 1892 as a fundraiser to save Andrew Jackson's home in downtown Nashville. Four years later, the famous Fisk Jubilee Singers performed. It is most famous for being the home of the Grand Ole Opry for thirty-one years. The Opry returned to the venue in 1999 to celebrate twenty-fives years at the Grand Ole Opry House and in 2010 when the house was undergoing repairs required after the Nashville flood. Now operating as Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc., the Ryman underwent extensive renovations in 2015. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and became a National Historic Landmark in 2001.