Cross Lines Tower

[1] In its glory days in the 1950s and 1960s as a 250-room hotel at 1015 North 7th Street it was frequently used by visiting American Football League teams and was where singer Patsy Cline spent her last night before being killed in a plane crash while flying back to Nashville from Fairfax Airport.

The jail was razed in November 1949 in preparation for the new Town House Hotel designed by Eugene J. Stern which opened August 6, 1951.

On March 3, 1963, Patsy Cline and her entourage stayed at the hotel during a benefit concert at Memorial Hall for former KCKN/KCMK disc jockey Cactus Jack Call who had died in a January car accident.

The Town House closed on June 22, 1970 because of mortgage foreclosure, interest payments and outstanding back taxes.

The red neon sign that once burn bright atop the tower was reestablished to officially mark the beginning of a new era to be known as Town House Apartments.