Overton Park Formal Gardens

Overton Park Formal Gardens is a garden in Shelby, Tennessee. Overton Park Formal Gardens is situated nearby to the theater building Overton Park Shell, as well as near Overton Park Greensward.

Places of Interest Nearby

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

Overton Park Shell

Theater 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. Overton Park Shell is situated 450 feet south of Overton Park Formal Gardens.

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 780 feet south of Overton Park Formal Gardens.

Circuit Playhouse

Theater building

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Circuit Playhouse is a theater building, which is situated 1 mile south of Overton Park Formal Gardens.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Midtown and Binghampton.

Midtown

Suburb

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.

Lenox

Hamlet

Lenox is a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. It is bounded by Central Avenue in the south, Union Avenue in the north, Cooper Street in the west and East Parkway South in the east.

Overton Park Formal Gardens

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

35.14665° or 35° 8′ 48″ north

Longitude

-89.99494° or 89° 59′ 42″ west

Open location code

867G42W4+M2

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1523837967

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=garden

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Overton Park Greensward and Overton Bark (Dog Park).

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