[1] The district's homes were built between 1870 and 1930. it is located between Primrose and 20th Avenues and between Magnolia and Belmont Boulevards.

[1] The area began with residential homes but following the American Civil War (1870s to the 1890s) a commercial center grew with businesses selling women's clothing and furniture.

The area is 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) and the borders are Church Street to the south, Union Street to the north, Fourth Avenue to the east and Sixth Avenue to the west.

In the 1960s, during the Civil rights movement activists participated in lunch counter sit-ins or Nashville sit-ins, at what was then a Woolworth's Department Store.

This article about a property in Davidson County, Tennessee on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.