Memphis Zoological Garden

Memphis Zoological Garden is a park in Shelby, Tennessee. Memphis Zoological Garden is situated nearby to the suburb Midtown, as well as near the quarter Stonewall Place.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Overton Park Shell.

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.

Overton Park Shell

Building

The Overton Park Shell is an open-air amphitheater and museum located in Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis Presley gave his first paid concert there on July 30, 1954.

Circuit Playhouse

Theater building

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Circuit Playhouse is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Midtown and Binghampton.

Midtown is a collection of neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee, to the east of Downtown. Midtown is home to many cultural attractions, institutions of higher education, and noteworthy pieces of architecture.

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.

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.

Memphis Zoological Garden

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

35.15092° or 35° 9′ 3″ north

Longitude

-89.99481° or 89° 59′ 41″ west

Elevation

256 feet (78 metres)

Open location code

867G5224+93

GeoNames ID

4641272

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Stonewall Place and Morningside Park.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Fisher Memorial Garden and Alburty Pool.

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