The South Gay Street Condomiums - Knoxville, TN | Zillow

Contents:

• NEW DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCED ON GAY STREET
• GAY STREET
• THE SOUTH GAY STREET CONDOMIUMS
• ADDISON’S BOOKS TO OPEN AT 126 SOUTH GAY STREET
• GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
• 714 SOUTH GAY STREET, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902
• 128 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902128 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

NEW DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCED ON GAY STREET

706 South Gay Street, Knoxville, July 2020.

The buildg at 706 South Gay Street will soon get a major makeover.

GAY STREET

Veneer on 706 South Gay Street, Knoxville, July 2020.

Renrg of New Fa, 706 South Gay Street, Knoxville, July 2020.

THE SOUTH GAY STREET CONDOMIUMS

There will also be addnal space, as the buildg, currently two-stori above ground at Gay Street and droppg to a sgle story the back half of the property. Renrg of New North Si Fa, 706 South Gay Street, Knoxville, July 2020.

ADDISON’S BOOKS TO OPEN AT 126 SOUTH GAY STREET

Diagrams of Front of the Buildg wh Material Detail, Rintial Floor Plans, First and Send Floors, 706 South Gay Street, Knoxville, July 2020. Commercial and Rintial Floor Plans, Basement and First Floor, 706 South Gay Street, Knoxville, July 2020.

Rintial Floor Plans, First and Send Floors, 706 South Gay Street, Knoxville, July 2020.

GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE

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. 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.

714 SOUTH GAY STREET, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

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. 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.

128 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902128 S GAY ST, KNOXVILLE, TN 37902

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. 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. Gay Street has also been the home of multiple partment stor, cludg Miller’s, which mataed a prence s origal bex-arts brick buildg on Gay for 70 years.