Memphis: Neighbourhood
Places and attractions in the Neighbourhood category
Categories
- Museum
- History museum
- Church
- Park
- Specialty museum
- Concerts and shows
- Historical place
- Sport
- Sport venue
- Shopping
- Art museum
- Theater
- Shopping centre
- Neighbourhood
- Bridge
- Sacred and religious sites
- Architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture
Downtown Memphis
Downtown Memphis, Tennessee is the central business district of Memphis, Tennessee and is located along the Mississippi River between Interstate 40 to the north, Interstate 55 to the south and I-240 to the east, where it abuts Midtown Memphis.
Overton Park
Overton Park is a large, 342-acre public park in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee. The park grounds contain the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Zoo, a 9-hole golf course, the Memphis College of Art, Rainbow Lake, Veterans Plaza, the Greensward, and other features.
Cooper-Young
Cooper-Young is an eclectic neighborhood and historic district in the Midtown section of Memphis, Tennessee, named for the intersection of Cooper Street and Young Avenue.
South Main Arts District
The South Main Arts District in Memphis, Tennessee makes up the southern portion of Downtown Memphis. It is located along South Main Street and is within the South Main Street Historic District.
Nutbush
Nutbush is a long-standing neighborhood in northeastern Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The area has since expanded, yet it remains relatively small with modestly sized houses.
Uptown
Uptown Memphis is a neighborhood located near downtown Memphis, Tennessee. In 1999, the Uptown Partnership renamed the historic North Memphis Greenlaw neighborhood "Uptown" in concert with a public-private revitalization effort that defined Uptown as one hundred city blocks east of the Wolf River and North of A.W.
Binghampton
Binghampton is a neighborhood on an edge of Midtown in Memphis, Tennessee. It is named after W. H. Bingham, an Irish immigrant, hotelier, planter, magistrate, politician and entrepreneur who founded a town to the east and slightly north of the Memphis city limits in 1893.
Speedway Terrace Historic District
The Speedway Terrace Historic District, in Memphis, Tennessee, is a residential historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
Frayser
Frayser is a neighborhood on the northside of Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It is named after Memphis physician Dr. J Frayser, who owned a summer home near the railroad.
Adams Avenue Historic District
The Adams Avenue Historic District in Memphis, Tennessee is a 9 acres historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It contains six contributing buildings: St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, at 190 Adams Ave. North Memphis Savings Bank, at 110 Adams Ave.
Midtown
Midtown Memphis, Tennessee is a collection of neighborhoods to the east of Downtown. Midtown is home to many cultural attractions, institutions of higher education, and noteworthy pieces of architecture.
East Memphis
East Memphis is a region of Memphis, Tennessee with several defined and informal subdivisions and neighborhoods such as Colonial Acres, White Station-Yates, Sherwood Forest, Normal Station, High Point Terrace, Belle Meade, Normandy Meadows, St.
Pinch District
The Pinch District is a historical district of downtown Memphis roughly bordered by the Wolf River lagoon on the west, Market Street on the south, Danny Thomas Boulevard on the east, and A.W. Willis Avenue on the north.
South Memphis
South Memphis, one of the oldest portions of Memphis, Tennessee, is a community stretching from Midtown and Downtown to the Mississippi state line. In its early days, it was primarily an agrarian community.
Orange Mound
Orange Mound, a neighborhood located in southeast Memphis, Tennessee, was the first African-American neighborhood, in the history of America, to be built by and for African Americans.
High Point Terrace
High Point Terrace is a neighborhood located in the heart of the city of Memphis, Tennessee. The High Point Terrace Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Vollintine Hills Historic District
Vollintine Hills Historic District is a historic district located in the Midtown area of Memphis, Tennessee, notable for its cohesive collection of 78 post-World War II Minimal Traditional and ranch-style houses built around a former synagogue.
Chickasaw Gardens
Chickasaw Gardens is an established upscale neighborhood in midtown Memphis, Tennessee.
South Bluffs
South Bluffs is a gated neighborhood located south of Downtown Memphis, Tennessee. The bluff was previously occupied by a 25-acre railroad and switching yard, until 1989 when ground was broken on developing a residential neighborhood.
Berclair
Berclair is a district of Memphis, Tennessee, that is known for a major street in the district.
Highland Heights
Highland Heights is a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee which grew up around the intersection of National Street and Summer Avenue. At its beginning, it was in the county as a rural community, east of the Memphis city limits. The land of the John Pope family cotton plantation was subdivided after the death in 1865 of the pater familias.
Normal Station
Normal Station is a neighborhood in East Memphis, Tennessee, anchored by the University of Memphis, formerly Memphis State University, and originally called West Tennessee State Normal School.
Capleville
Capleville is a community in the southeast section of Memphis, Tennessee, United States, and is north of the Mississippi border.
Medical District
The Memphis Medical District is an area which was created to provide a central location for medical care, serving both Memphis and the Mid-South.
Parkway Village
Parkway Village is a predominantly African-American community in southeast Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Parkway Village is bounded by Getwell Road and Lamar Avenue on the West, Winchester Road on the South, I-240 on the North, and Mendenhall Road on the East.