Utopia Hotel

United States historic place


Utopia Hotel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The former Utopia Hotel, January 2014
36°9′51″N 86°46′43″W / 36.16417°N 86.77861°W / 36.16417; -86.77861
Area	less than one acre
Built	1891
Architect	Hugh Cathcart Thompson
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	79002428^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 26, 1979

The Utopia Hotel is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee.

Location

The building is located at 206 4th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee.^[2] The street was called the "Men's Quarter," where no respectable woman would venture.^[2]

History

The hotel was built in 1891 to the design of architect Hugh Cathcart Thompson.^[2] It was built to accommodate the visitors of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.^[2] It has six storeys.^[2]

In 1904, it became home to a restaurant, where many men would have lunch on their workdays.^[3] It was dedicated with a dinner for the Nashville Press Club.^[3] Later, it became home to a laundromat called Downtown Cleaners and a strip club called Brass Stables.^[4]

In 2014, it was scheduled to be turned into a luxury hotel alongside other buildings around it, with developer Bill Barkley and investors Alex Marks and Billy Frist at the helm.^[4]

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings since March 26, 1979.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e James A. Hoobler, A Guide to Historic Nashville, Tennessee, The History Press, 2008, p. 81 [1]
^ ^a ^b Ken Roberts, Jr., One for the Road: Stories of Nashville's hard-drinking nightlife, Nashville Scene, June 13, 1996
^ ^a ^b Getahn Ward, Boutique hotel planned for Lonnie's Western Room, Brass Stables site in Printers Alley, The Tennessean, July 17, 2014