The Young Women's Christian Association Building, also known as the Jacques-Miller Office Building, is a historic building in

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, USA.

Location

The building is in Nashville, the county seat of

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. It is located downtown, at 211 7th Avenue North, between Church Street and Union Street, opposite the back of the Sheraton Nashville Downtown.

History

The six-storey building was completed in 1911. It was designed in the Georgian Revival architectural style by

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, an architectural firm based in

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. Inside, there is a large cast-iron

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, a prominent Nashville businessman, served as Chairman of the Building Committee. It was dedicated on May 9, 1911. The building was home to the Nashville chapter of the

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. The association offered boarding facilities for Christian women as well as a gymnasium and a job centre. The first floor was home to the Ophelia Clifton Atchison Memorial Library, named for the mother of Elizabeth Rhodes Atchison Eakin, widow of Nashville banker and philanthropist, John Hill Eakin. The first chapter of the

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, Nashville No. 1, rented the Vespers room of the YWCA building from 1917 to 1927 for their meetings. In 1982, the building was redeveloped as an office building. It was renamed the Jacques-Miller Office Building.

Architectural significance

It has been listed on the

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since December 16, 1982.

References

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