Music Row Added to List of ‘Most Endangered Historic Places’

ENDANGERED MUSIC ROW? The National Trust for Historic Preservation says it has named Music Row in Nashville to its 2019 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Would you like to see Music Row preserved or developed?https://t.co/xvXP2cIJHe https://t.co/xnsJbNI6b5
— FoxNashville (@FOXNashville) May 30, 2019

Sad, but we’ve been seeing it coming for a while now.

Nashville’s historic charm is slowly deterioirating because ofthe city’s “need” for glamourous and flashy hotels and condos, failing to appreciate what makes Music City MUSIC CITY.

Today, Music Row has been added to The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of “Most Endangered Historic Places.” FOX 17 says,

“…vital pieces of history are being lost due to rapid development, with 50 demolitions on Music Row since 2013. Many of those have affected small, independently owned music businesses and much of the new construction consists of high-rise luxury apartments and offices that don’t serve the music industry.”

The full list includes:

Tenth Street Historic District, Dallas, Texas
Music Row, Nashville, Tennessee
James R. Thompson Center, Chicago, Illinois
Bismarck-Mandan Rail Bridge, North Dakota
Industrial Trust Company Building, Providence, Rhode Island
Ancestral Places of Southeast Utah
The Excelsior Club, Charlotte, North Carolina
Washington D.C.’s National Mall Tidal Basin
Hacienda Los Torres, Lares, Puerto Rico
Willert Park Courts, Buffalo, NY
Mount Vernon Arsenal and Searcy Hospital, Albama

Little known fact about myself, before I started doing radio full-time, I worked at a little place on Music Row doing tour marketing for about a year. Right on 16th. What an experience it was, and what a shame that something so unique about Nashville is threatened to be no longer.