Edward Emmett Dougherty

[2] He then studied architecture at Cornell University and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

[4] An impressive string of successful projects in Atlanta brought notice and numerous commissions in Nashville where Dougherty moved in 1916 for the second part of his career.

[1] In 1917, he designed the nearby Belle Meade Apartments, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[6] A jury of nationally-known architects devised a competition to narrow the competitors to six; three from Tennessee and three from out-of state.

The designers were kept anonymous and the choice was made by a commission of local city fathers at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville on February 14, 1922.