- City:
- Nashville, TN
- Site Type:
- Amphitheaters and Bandshells, Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a bandshell ca. 1939 at Centennial Park in Nashville, Tennessee, “to the right of the present structure.” That structure, which Living New Deal believes served between 1937 and 1963, has since been demolished and replaced.
Source notes
"Costello Plans No Immediate Program Shift," Nashville Banner, Jun. 8, 1939 (pg. 20): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/603238773/
Owen Bradley's "Quonset Hut": https://www.facebook.com/owenbradleysquonsethut/photos/a.10150328843003734/10151677894633734/
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 3, 2023.
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