Historic and Beautiful Memphis Homes (2024)

Memphis has always been noted for beautiful neighborhoods and particularly for elegant homes and spectacular gardens. Many of these neighborhoods are tree-lined avenues bordered by stately homes. Evergreen is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city with many beautiful homes from the turn of the century. Vollintine-Evergreen is a 1920s era neighborhood with many homes on the National Register of Historic Places. Cooper-Young has quaint, yet historic residential homes. Central Gardens has stately turn-of-the-century homes with the feel of a simpler, more elegant era. In 1983, this area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is consistently listed in Memphis Magazine's annual survey as the 'Best Neighborhood' in the city. The Chickasaw Gardens area has elegant homes surrounded by a park and a lake. EastParkway has large estates in a cool park-like setting. And Adams Avenue, now known as Victorian Village, is the home for

Memphis's remaining Victorian Mansions. The selection of photos below are not listed in any particular order - neither by date nor historical importance. Ironically, in a city that's not known for preserving its past, most of these Memphis homes are still standing. Near the bottom of this page, there's a photo selection of today's homes which shows the desire for large, elegant homes is still alive. If you plan to visit Memphis, try to make it in April when the dogwoods and azaleas are blooming. It's an experience you won't forget.

Ashler Hall -1896

Hunt-Phelan House - 1828

Harsson-Goyer-Lee House - 1848

Elias Lowenstein House - 1891

Mollie Fontaine Taylor - 1890

Annesdale - 1850

Anderson-Coward House - 1840

D. T. Porter House - 1895

Clanlo Hall - 1853

Napoleon Hill House - 1881

Mallory-Neeley - 1852

Roland Darnell - 19th Century Club - 1909

Hillcrest - 1907

Pillow-McIntyre - 1852

Galloway Mansion - 1910

Graceland - 1939

John Overton, Jr. - Date ?

Joseph Newberger - 1912

Clarence Saunders - Pink Palace - 1922

Woodruff-Fontaine - 1871

W. R. Harris - 1853

E. H. Crump - 1908

Robert Church - 1884

Robertson Topp - 1841

William Miller - 1916

Henry Montgomery - 1860's

Davies Manor - 1807

Van Vleet Mansion - c. 1856

W. B. Mallory House - 1890's

Watkins Overton - Dates ?

Dunscomb House - c. 1844

William Bell House- C. 1899

Gilbert Raine House - 1890's

Carimi House - 1895

Fisk Collinswood - 1891

Frank Jones - 1890's

Laurelhill - 1863

John S. Toof - 1876

1st James Lee - 1868

Jefferson Davis House 1867-78

Frank A. Norfleet Home - 1910

W. A. Gage House - Date ?

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