page_title: Southern Terminal, Knoxville, Tennessee
section_title: Other notable buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Southern Terminal, Knoxville, Tennessee / Southern Terminal and Warehouse Historic District / Other notable buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: The Jackson Avenue skyline in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, viewed from the Southern Terminal.
context_page_description: The Southern Terminal is a former railway complex located at 306 West Depot Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. The complex, which includes a passenger terminal and express depot adjacent to a large railyard, was built in 1903 by the Southern Railway. Both the terminal and depot were designed by noted train station architect Frank Pierce Milburn. In 1985, the terminal complex, along with several dozen warehouses and storefronts in the adjacent Old City and vicinity, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Southern Terminal and Warehouse Historic District.
  During the 1850s, the arrival of the railroad— namely the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad and its predecessor lines— transformed Knoxville from a small river town of just over 2,000 residents to one of the southeast's major wholesaling centers. Wholesaling firms built dozens of large warehouses along Jackson Avenue and adjacent streets, where smalltown merchants from across East Tennessee would purchase goods and supplies to resell at rural general stores. In 1894, the ETV&G was absorbed by the Southern Railway, which in turn became part of the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982.
context_section_description: 200 East Jackson, a two-story Vernacular Commercial warehouse building, constructed circa 1910.  This building is currently home to Barley's Taproom.
  121-123 West Jackson, sometimes called the Carhart Building, a ​3 ¹⁄₂-story brick warehouse building with a Romanesque Revival facade, built around 1900.  The Carhart Building was designed by the Knoxville architectural firm, Baumann Brothers, and is named for H.B. Carhart and Company, a grocery wholesaler established in 1877.  121 West Jackson is currently home to Crush, a shop that specializes in retro rock fashion.
  120-122 West Jackson, a five-story vernacular brick warehouse building constructed circa 1900.
  124 West Jackson, a five-story brick warehouse building with Romanesque Revival facade constructed circa 1900.  This building may have originally been occupied by Powers, Little and Company, a clothing wholesaler established in 1892.
  125 West Jackson, a 3.5-story brick building with a Classical Revival facade, constructed circa 1890.  During the 1890s, this building was occupied by two wholesale grocers, Hazen and Lotspeich, and Knaffl and Locke, the latter cofounded by Rudolph Knaffl, a brother of photographer Joseph Knaffl.  Its current tenants include Remedy Coffee.
  JFG Flats (200 West Jackson), a six-story concrete building constructed in 1920, and used for several decades by the JFG Coffee Company.  The company's large neon sign still stands atop the building, which now houses residential flats.
  203 West Jackson, a one-story, 20-bay brick freight depot originally constructed circa 1870.  In the late 1990s, this building was extensively renovated by its current occupant, Heuristic Workshop.
  McClung Warehouses (501-525 West Jackson), built for the wholesale firm, C.M. McClung and Company.  The buildings at 517-521 were constructed between 1893 and 1927. Several of the warehouse buildings burned in 2007. Another two alarm blaze engulfed additional portions of the McClung Warehouses on 1 February 2014 and the City of Knoxville was forced to demolish one of the remaining structures.
  The Emporium Building (102-106 South Gay), a three-story Renaissance Revival warehouse constructed in 1898 by the Sterchi Brothers Company, a regional furniture wholesaler.
  Sterchi Lofts (114-116 South Gay), a ten-story warehouse and office building constructed in 1925 and designed by architect R. F. Graf. The building was used as a warehouse until the late 20th century by the furniture company, Sterchi Brothers, and now houses downtown residential lofts.
  Commerce Building (120-126 South Gay), a four-story Italianate building constructed in the early 1890s.
  White Lily Foods Company building (106 Depot), a four-story brick factory originally constructed in 1885 and experienced routine expansions.  White Lily operated out of this building until 2008.  The building has been converted into loft apartments that first opened in February 2015.
  The 100 blocks of North and South Central contain nearly two dozen commercial buildings constructed circa 1880—1925, ranging from one to three stories.  These buildings were once part of a vice-ridden section of Knoxville known as "The Bowery," which once stretched along Central from the tracks to the river.  Most of these buildings were renovated in the 1980s and 1990s, and the neighborhood was renamed the "Old City."
caption: JFG Flats and Sterchi Lofts, both originally constructed as warehouses, now house loft apartments
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