Tennessee Supreme Court - Nashville TN The Public Works Administration (PWA) paid for construction of Tennessee's Supreme Court building in 1937-38. The state's highest court had not previously had its own building, having been housed in the state capitol. The structure also contains the....
Short and Stanley-Brown recorded in their 1939 report on PWA projects that:
"Before the erection of this building the supreme court was housed in the State capitol and its offices were located in rented quarters in various parts of the city. The new structure houses the Tennessee Supreme Court, the Tennessee Court of Appeals, the legal department of the State government, the attorney general...