What’s ® The Cultural Landscape Foundation ™ Out There connecting people to places tclf.org Nashville Nashville, Tennessee Welcome to What’s Out There® Nashville, organized The guidebook is a complement to TCLF’s digital What’s Out by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) There Nashville Guide (tclf.org/nashville), an interactive online in collaboration with the Nashville Convention & platform that includes the enclosed essays plus many others, Visitors Corp. and a committee of local experts. as well as overarching narratives, maps, historic photographs, and biographical profiles. The guide is one of several online This guidebook provides photographs and details of 36 compendia of urban landscapes, dovetailing with TCLF’s web- examples of the city’s rich cultural landscape legacy. Its based What’s Out There, the nation’s most comprehensive publication is timed to coincide with the launch of What’s Out searchable database of historic, designed landscapes. Profusely There Weekend Nashville, April 13-14, 2019, a weekend of illustrated and carefully vetted, the searchable database free, expert-led tours. currently features more than 2,000 sites, 12,000 images, and 1,100 designer profiles. It has been optimized for iPhones From 1714, when Charles Charleville opened the first trading and similar handheld devices and includes What’s Nearby, a post in an area without a permanent settlement, to the 2007 GPS-enabled feature that locates all landscapes within a given Riverfront Master Plan, Nashville has often been shaped and reshaped by the commercial impulses of the times. The city is distance, customizable by mileage or walking time. surrounded by the Highland Rim in the Central Basin of Middle A special word of thanks is owed to the many photographers Tennessee and enjoys a temperate climate. These natural Photo by Judson Newbern who generously contributed their work to the guidebook and conditions, along with the Cumberland River, which winds its online guide. Local committee members Lee Ann Anderson, way through the area, were key to Nashville’s early economic Deana Ivey, Christine Kreyling, Judson Newbern, Ann Roberts, diversity and success. They also played an enormous role in and Eleanor Willis provided their expertise and seemingly shaping the city’s cultural landscapes. Thus many of the essays inexhaustible energy to the project, and intern Sue Choi gave it in this guidebook record, in one way or another, the confluence an admirable start. We are likewise grateful to the site owners, of geography and history. They also record the ongoing dialogue stewards, volunteers, financial supporters, and other friends between past and present, and between continuity and change, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) that is manifest in many of Nashville’s cultural landscapes. of TCLF who made the guidebook and tours possible. We also TCLF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1998 to connect people to appreciate your interest in What’s Out There Nashville and hope places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared The guidebook features gardens and estates of the antebellum you will enjoy experiencing the region’s unique and valuable landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its years, and it charts the city’s growth in the wake of the Civil landscape legacy. stewards. Through its website, publishing, lectures and other events, War, when new universities began to establish Nashville as a TCLF broadens support and understanding for cultural landscapes. hub of higher education. It captures the changing landscapes Sincerely, tclf.org of more recent decades, when much of the downtown area was reanimated and when the value of the iconic—but imperiled—Music Row was fully realized. It also moves beyond the urban core to highlight the greenways and natural areas Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR that evince a city learning to harmonize with nature. 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