pened in 1895 as a saloon, gambling hall, and hotel in downtown’s infamous “Men’s Quarter” (4th Avenue North—then, North Cherry Street) The Southern Turf was considered the most lavish of such establishments. Designed in the Queen Anne Revival style, the four-story structure boasted numerous architectural elements still in evidence today: fine stone and brickwork, grand turret, bay windows, and second-floor balcony. It shuttered in 1916, a casualty of Tennessee prohibition, becoming home to an array of businesses including the Nashville Tennessean newspaper,
