{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Lindsley Hall | nrhp_type = | image = Nashville Children's Museum, Lindsley Hall.jpg | caption = Lindsley Hall in January 2014 | location = 724 2nd Avenue, South<br />Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. | coordinates = {{Coord|36|09|15.0|N|86|46|05.0|W|region:US-TN_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Tennessee#USA | built = {{Start date|1853}} | architect = Adolphus Heiman | architecture = Gothic Revival | added = May 6, 1971 | area = {{convert|4|acre}} | refnum = 71000818<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} '''Lindsley Hall''' is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee. Built in the antebellum South as the main building of the University of Nashville, it served as a Union hospital during the Civil War.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lindsley Hall, The Old and the New|url=http://nashvillehistory.blogspot.com/2015/09/lindsley-hall-old-and-new.html|publisher=Nashville History blog|accessdate=July 19, 2016|date=September 27, 2015}}</ref> It became the '''Nashville Children's Museum''' in 1945. In 1974 the museum moved to a new facility at 800 Fort Negley Boulevard, became the Cumberland Science Museum and is now known as the Adventure Science Center.<ref>{{cite web|title=Overview|url=http://www.adventuresci.org/overview/|publisher=Adventure Science Center|accessdate=July 19, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160723112529/http://www.adventuresci.org/overview/|archivedate=July 23, 2016}}</ref> The building is once again called Lindsley Hall and is used by the City of Nashville for Metro Government offices.<ref>{{cite web|title=General Services Department Directory|url=http://www.nashville.gov/General-Services/Department-Directory.aspx|publisher=City of Nashville|accessdate=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
==Location== The building is located at 724 2nd Avenue South in Nashville, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee in the Southern United States.<ref name="focus">{{cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/71000818 | title = Nashville Children's Museum |publisher=National Park Service| access-date= October 8, 2015}}</ref><ref name="focusnom">{{cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset?assetID=d32656c5-019f-4d9d-a902-2ce023badb8d | title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Nashville Children's Museum, or Lindsley Hall, University of Nashville |publisher=National Park Service| access-date= October 8, 2015}} {{NRHP url|id=71000818|title=Accompanying photos|photos=y}}</ref>
==History== The building, constructed with grey limestone, was completed in 1853.<ref name="focusnom"/> It was designed by Prussian-born architect Adolphus Heiman in the Gothic Revival architectural style.<ref name="focusnom"/> It was built as the main hall for the University of Nashville while the university was closed from 1850 to 1855 due to a cholera epidemic.<ref name="focusnom"/> It was named Lindsley Hall in honor of Dr John Berrien Lindsley, who served as the Chancellor of the University of Nashville from 1855 to its demise in 1873.<ref name="focusnom"/><ref name="conkin">{{cite book |last=Conkin |first=Paul Keith |date=2002 |title=Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning |location=Nashville, Tennessee |publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0_vLSBrqNIC&q=john+berrien+lindsley&pg=PA74 |pages=73–102 |oclc=50228629|isbn=0826514251}}</ref> During the American Civil War, it was turned into a hospital for the Union Army in 1862.<ref name="focusnom"/>
From 1867 to 1905, the building was home to the Montgomery Bell Academy, Peabody College, and the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal College (later renamed Tennessee State University, a historically black university).<ref name="focusnom"/> From 1914 to 1925, it was home to the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.<ref name="focusnom"/> Later, it was used as an armory for the Tennessee State Guard and as a public health center.<ref name="focusnom"/> The building was the location of the Nashville Children's Museum from 1945 to 1974.<ref name="focusnom"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Our History|url=http://www.adventuresci.org/our-history|website=Adventure Science Center|accessdate=November 26, 2017|language=en-us}}</ref> More recently, it was renovated as an office building to USGBC LEED Silver standard in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lindsley Hall|url=https://www.usgbc.org/projects/lindsley-hall|website=U.S. Green Building Council|accessdate=November 26, 2017|language=en}}</ref>
==Architectural significance== It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 6, 1971.<ref name="focus"/>
==Interior== ===Floor plans=== {{multiple image | perrow = 3 | caption_align = center | align = center | direction = horizontal | width1 = 392 | image1 = University of Nashville, Literary Department Building, 724 Second Avenue, North, Nashville, Davidson County, TN HABS TENN,19-NASH,15A- (sheet 2 of 6).tif | caption1 = Foundation | width2 = 392 | image2 = University of Nashville, Literary Department Building, 724 Second Avenue, North, Nashville, Davidson County, TN HABS TENN,19-NASH,15A- (sheet 3 of 6).tif | caption2 = First Floor | width3 = 392 | image3 = University of Nashville, Literary Department Building, 724 Second Avenue, North, Nashville, Davidson County, TN HABS TENN,19-NASH,15A- (sheet 4 of 6).tif | caption3 = Second Floor | header = Floor plans of Lindsley Hall | footer = Layout and room names as of 1933 | footer_align = center }}
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