page_title: Southern Terminal, Knoxville, Tennessee
section_title: Southern Terminal and Warehouse Historic District
hierarchical_section_title: Southern Terminal, Knoxville, Tennessee / Southern Terminal and Warehouse Historic District
caption_attribution_description: English: The Southern Railway Terminal in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, viewed from the northeast, along Depot Avenue. Built in 1904, this terminal is now a contributing property within the NRHP-listed Southern Terminal and Warehouse Historic District.
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: The Southern Terminal and Warehouse Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 for its late-19th- and early-20th-century commercial architecture and its role in Knoxville's railroad-based commerce and wholesaling industry.  The district includes the Southern Terminal complex, all of West Jackson Avenue, the 100 blocks of East Jackson, North and South Central, and South Gay, parts of State Street and Vine Avenue, and the former White Lily plant on Depot.  Several buildings in the district, namely Sullivan's Saloon (100 E. Jackson) and the warehouse buildings at 121-123, 122-124, 125-127, and 129-131 West Jackson, were previously listed on the Register in the 1970s as the Jackson Avenue Warehouse District.
  There were originally 75 contributing buildings and structures in the Southern Terminal district, although some of these are no longer standing.  The listing included the old Gay Street Viaduct, which was demolished and replaced by the current viaduct in 2005.  Other non-extant listings include an 1870s-era freight depot once located at 406 West Jackson (now a parking lot), and several warehouse buildings on West Jackson's 500-block.  In 2004, the Southern Terminal district was extended to include the Southeastern Glass Building at 100 North Broadway.
caption: The Southern Terminal, viewed from Depot Avenue
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