May Street Park

May Street Park is a park in Shelby, Tennessee. May Street Park is situated nearby to the suburb North Memphis, as well as near the hamlet New Chelsea.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Crosstown Concourse.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Museum

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Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is an art museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The Brooks Museum, which was founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest art museum in the state of Tennessee. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is situated 2 miles south of May Street Park.

Crosstown Concourse

Building

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Crosstown Concourse is a mixed-use development and historic high-rise building in Memphis, Tennessee. Originally built in 1927 as a Sears retail store and catalog order plant, the building was closed in 1993. Crosstown Concourse is situated 2 miles southwest of May Street Park.

Douglass High School

School

Douglass High School is a public high school in Memphis, United States, Tennessee, operated in the Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Located in the African American Douglass neighborhood in North Memphis, it is named for Frederick Douglass, a 19th-century abolitionist. Douglass High School is situated 2½ miles east of May Street Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Memphis and Hollywood.

North Memphis

Suburb

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North Memphis is one of the five defined districts of Memphis, Tennessee. It includes smaller neighborhoods such as Klondike, New Chicago, Douglass, Hyde Park, Hollywood, Nutbush, Binghampton, Smokey City, Scutterfeld, Frayser, and Raleigh.

Hollywood

Hamlet

Hollywood is a neighborhood on the north side of Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

Binghampton

Quarter

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Binghampton is a neighborhood on an edge of Midtown in Memphis, Tennessee. It is named after W. H. Bingham, an Irish immigrant, hotelier, planter, magistrate, politician, and entrepreneur who founded a town to the east and slightly north of the Memphis city limits in 1893. Binghampton is situated 2 miles southeast of May Street Park.

May Street Park

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Shelby, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.17597° or 35° 10′ 34″ north

Longitude

-89.99275° or 89° 59′ 34″ west

Elevation

226 feet (69 metres)

Open location code

867G52G4+9V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1329168322

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4640101

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