Downtown Knoxville
Downtown Knoxville is the downtown area of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It contains the city's central business district and primary city and county municipal offices.Photo: AppalachianCentrist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Tennessee Theatre and Lawson McGhee Library.
Tennessee Theatre
Theater building
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The Tennessee Theatre is a movie palace in the downtown core of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. The theater opened in 1928 in the 1908 Burwell Building, considered Knoxville's first skyscraper.
Lawson McGhee Library
Library
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The Lawson McGhee Library is the main library of Knox County Public Library in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is located at 500 West Church Avenue in downtown Knoxville. It is currently the oldest, continuously operating public library in Tennessee.
Masonic Temple
Church
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A Masonic Temple or Masonic Hall is, within Freemasonry, the room or edifice where a Masonic Lodge meets. Masonic Temple may also refer to an abstract spiritual goal and the conceptual ritualistic space of a meeting.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Knoxville and Old City.
Knoxville
Knoxville, in Knox County, is the third-largest city in Tennessee. It is the home of the University of Tennessee's primary campus and site of the 1982 World's Fair.
Old City
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The Old City is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located at the northeast corner of the city's downtown area. Originally part of a raucous and vice-ridden section of town known as "The Bowery," the Old City has since been revitalized through extensive redevelopment efforts carried out during the 1980s through the present.
Emory Place Historic District
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The Emory Place Historic District is a historic district in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located just north of the city's downtown area. The district consists of several commercial, residential, religious, and public buildings that developed around a late nineteenth century train and trolley station.
Downtown Knoxville
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: human settlement in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Category: locality
- Location: Knox, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.96462° or 35° 57′ 53″ northLongitude
-83.91828° or 83° 55′ 6″ westOpen location code
867RX37J+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 10585652994OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q5303479
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Satellite Map
Discover Downtown Knoxville from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Dutch to Persian—“Downtown Knoxville” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Downtown Knoxville”
- Persian: “داونتاون، ناکسویل”
- Persian: “داونتاون”
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