116 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902 is currently not for sale. The 980 Square Feet sgle fay home is a 2 beds, 1 bath property. This home was built 1920 and last sold on 2023-07-26 for $--. View more property tails, sal history, and Ztimate data on Zillow.
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- GAY STREET
- GAY KNOXVILLE TRAVEL GUI
- GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
- 116 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
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Sce the 1790s, Gay Street has played a primary role Knoxville’s historil and cultural velopment. Gay Street is home to art galleri, historic theaters, the East Tennsee History Center and more – wh many buildgs listed on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac.
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Gay Street was the se of the 1796 Constutnal Conventn that rulted the foundg of the state of Tennsee, and was a fol pot for the early polil activy of both the cy and the state of Tennsee. On the eve of the Civil War, Gay Street was the se of simultaneo Unn and Conferate recg ralli. Durg the Civil War, Gay Street saw some early vlence, a fatal shootg of a Unnist monstrator, days after the firg on Ft.
William Sanrs died as the rult of wounds the Lamar Hoe on Gay.
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After the war, Gay Street saw extensive mercial velopment as railroad nstctn brought an dtrial boom to Knoxville.
By 1850, Gay Street was home to three-fourths of Knoxville's mercial activy. In 1854, Gay Street beme Knoxville's first paved road. Almost all public visors to Knoxville ma an appearance on Gay Street.
Durg the Civil War, Andrew Johnson was shot at when he gave a pro-Unn speech on Gay Street. Others who were seen on Gay Street at one time or another were prohibnist Carrie Natn, Socialist ndidate Eugene V.
116 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
One of Knoxville’s olst buildgs, the Lamar Hoe, now the ont portn of the Bijou Theatre, was operatg as a hotel facg Gay Street by 1817, when hosted a receptn for Gen. Begng 1908, Gay Street beme the lotn of Knoxville’s first skyscrapers, steel-ame buildgs of 10 stor or more, begng wh the Burwell Buildg, followed by the taller Holston Buildg, and some years later the Andrew Johnson Hotel, which was for almost half a century the tallt buildg East Tennsee.
From 1960 to 1963, Gay Street was the se of dozens of civil-rights monstratns, first s-s at all-whe lunch unters, then monstratns outsi the still-segregated movie theaters.