Portions of North Broadway, North Central, Lamar, King, and North Gay Sts., Emory Pl., East 4th, East 5th. and West 5th Aves., Knoxville, Tennessee. County/parish: Knox.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 20, 2023. NRIS 94001259.
Part of Knoxville and Knox County MPS (NRIS 64500608).
19 contributing buildings.Also known as:
The Emory Place Historic District is a historic district in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located just north of the city's downtown area. The district consists of several commercial, residential, religious, and public buildings that developed around a late nineteenth century train and trolley station. The district includes the Knoxville High School building, St. John's Lutheran Church, First Christian Church, and some of the few surviving rowhouses in Knoxville. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, with boundary increases in 2023 and 2025.
Following railroad construction in the 1850s, Knoxville slowly expanded northward. In 1890, the "Dummy Line," a railroad line connecting Knoxville and Fountain City, was established, with what is now Emory Place as its southern terminus. A farmers' market and several small industrial and commercial firms developed adjacent to the train station to take advantage of the influx of customers and transportation advantages. While Emory Place declined with the dismantling of Knoxville's trolley system in the late 1940s, many of its late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century buildings still stand, and have been restored.
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