120 North Military Street - Lawrenceburg Commercial Historic District - Lawrenceburg, TN
Posted by: YoSam.
N 35° 14.507 W 087° 20.069
16S E 469567 N 3899907
Building Number 8 on the NRHP map.
Waymark Code: WMWJCB
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 09/11/2017
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County of building: Lawrence County
location of building: 120 N. Military St.
Historic Occupant: Broyle's Studio
Occupant at listing: WDXE Radio
Current Occupant: Vacant
Building built: ca. 1900
"8. 120 North Military Street
WDXE Radio
Former Broyle's Studio
ca. 1900
Two-part commercial block. Two-story brick, stone foundation,
stuccoed brick walls, 1/1 light segmental arched windows second
floor, cornice removed, carrera glass storefront. (C)" ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"The commercial momentum created during 1900 to 1910 carried into the next
decade too. The Kelly and Coffman Block, perhaps the district's most
architecturally distinctive commercial block, was constructed at 38-39
Public Square in circa 1914. In 1917, the city replaced its gas lamps with
electric lights around the square as well as grading and macadamizing the
square road. Two years later came the Massey Dry Goods store at 40-42
Public Square.
During the 1920s and 1930s, however, commercial activity began a slow shift
from the square to the axis created by the intersection of Gaines Street
and North Military Street one block north of the square. This was due to
the increasing importance of the Pulaski-Waynesboro Highway and of
automobile traffic. Of the ten properties in the 100 block of North
Military, seven were built after 1920. This commercial shift northward
became even more pronounced after 1929-1930, when Gaines Street became part
of the James K. Polk Highway (Tennessee Highway 15, now U. S. Highway 64).
Indeed, the commercial development of the 200 block of North Military is
clearly dependent on the construction of the new federal highway, with such
important buildings as the 1936 Classical Revival post office at 218 North
Military quickly becoming a new center of activity." ~ NRHP Nomination Form