page_title: Edward Emmett Dougherty
section_title: Tennessee War Memorial Auditorium
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Emmett Dougherty / Tennessee War Memorial Auditorium
caption_attribution_description: English: War Memorial Square
context_page_description: Edward Emmett Dougherty, a.k.a. Edwin Dougherty was an architect in the southeastern United States. One of his best known designs was the Tennessee War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville in 1922. The work won state and national design competitions.
context_section_description: Dougherty received the contract for a 2,000 seat auditorium, Tennessee's War Memorial Building, now known as the War Memorial Auditorium (1922) in a "spirited competition" according to the Nashville Tennessean.  A jury of nationally-known architects devised a competition to narrow the competitors to six; three from Tennessee and three from out-of state. The designers were kept anonymous and the choice was made by a commission of local city fathers at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville on February 14, 1922. Dougherty's design was the unanimous choice.
caption: Nashville War Memorial Auditorium
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