Parthenon (Nashville), Nashville TN | Nearby Businesses

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2500 W End Ave
Nashville, TN 37203
(615) 862-8431

Christian art chapel and museum, $5.00 suggested donation for visiting, free bus, church van and car parking

The Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. It was built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Today the Parthenon, which functions as an art museum, stands as the centerpiece of Centennial Park, a large public park just west of downtown Nashville. Alan LeQuire's 1990 re-creation of the Athena Parthenos statue is the focus of the Parthenon just as it was in ancient Greece. The statue of Athena Parthenos within is a reconstruction of the long-lost original to careful scholarly standards: she is cuirassed and helmeted, carries a shield on her left arm and a small 6-foot-high statue of Nike in her right palm, and stands 42 feet high, gilt with more than 8 pounds of gold leaf; an equally colossal serpent rears its head between her and her shield. Since the building is complete and its decorations were polychromed as close to the presumed original as possible, this replica of the original Parthenon in Athens serves as a monument to what is considered the pinnacle of classical architecture.

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Centennial Park is a large urban park located approximately two miles (three km) west of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, across West End Avenue (U.S. Highway 70S) from the campus of Vanderbilt University and adjacent to the headquarters campus of the Hospital Corporation of America. Blacks were banned from the park until the 1960s.This area of Nashville, popular to young professionals, is known as the West End. It has seen tremendous growth including two large-scale apartment developments—Elliston23 and ParkCentral.HistoryThe 132acre park was originally farmland that had belonged to Anne Robertson Johnson Cockrill (1757–1821). She was the first teacher in the state and sister of General James Robertson (commonly referred to as the "Father of Middle Tennessee"). She and her family came from Wake County, North Carolina to Fort Nashborough (now Nashville) in the Donelson Flotilla, led by Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel's father, John Donelson. They stopped for the winter in 1776 when the river iced over and, while the men were out hunting, Indians attacked Fort Wautaga. Anne, although wounded, led the women in a bucket brigade of boiling wash water to fend off Dragging Canoe and other Chickamauguan Indians attempting to set fire to the fort, ultimately driving off the Indians and saving the fort and families. For her valor, she was given a land grant for the land which was turned into the state fairgrounds after the Civil War.

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