Then and Now

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Broadway, Showing the Site of the Future Post Office, 1919

Then: Broadway, Showing the Site of the Future Post Office (veterans arriving home after World War I), ca. 1919. In Joe Sherman, A Thousand Voices: The Story of Nashville’s Union Station (Rutledge Hill, 1987)

Now: Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum

Site of the Future
Nashville Post Office, 1933

Then: Site of the Future Nashville Post Office from the Southeast, June 30, 1933. Courtesy of the Marr & Holman Collection, Tennessee Historical Society, Tennessee State Library & Archives

Now: Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum

The Nashville Post Office
Under Construction, 1934

Then: The Nashville Post Office Under Construction from the Northeast, January 2, 1934. Courtesy of the Marr & Holman Collection, Tennessee Historical Society, Tennessee State Library & Archives

Now: Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum

Lobby of the Nashville Post Office, 1934

Then: Lobby of the Nashville Post Office. Marr & Holman Collection, Tennessee Historical Society, Tennessee State Library & Archives

Now: Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum

Union Station, Baggage Building, and Post Office Connector, 1975

Then: Frederick D. Smith

Now: Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum

Post Office Interior

Then: Michael Lewis, Interior view of the Nashville post office, 1998. Photo © Tuck Hinton Architecture and Design

Now: Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum

Stairwell before renovation

Then: Stairwell before renovation. Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum

Now: Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum

Grand Lobby before renovation

Then: Grand lobby before renovation. Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum

Now: Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum