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Tennessee’s Oldest Opera House Part 2
Fast forward to February of 2007. The Southern Tennessee Area Arts Repertory (STAAR) was looking for a new building. It just so happened that a space had opened up in a former retail store on the east side of the square. Tammy Pierchoski, the now Exective Director of STAAR, found the space to be just…
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Tennessee’s Oldest Opera House
It was early 1868 and Pulaski, Tennessee, had just suffered a devastating fire to the east side of its public square. While businesses began talks of rebuilding, Mr. Angenol Cox declared his plans to construct a magnificent hall. His hall would sit where a large section of buildings once stood. His was the first building…
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Milky Way Farm (Yes, That Milky Way!)
Check out Milky Way Farm in Pulaski, Tennessee! Why is it called Milky Way Farm you ask? Because it was home to Franklin C. Mars, inventor of the Milky Way! He moved to Tennessee from Chicago and had this home built for he and his family in 1931. At this point, the Milky Way was…
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Pulaski Italianate Dates to the 1830s
This beautiful blue Italianate was built sometime in the 1830s in Pulaski. It was originally a simpler frame home and they added all of the Italianate trim a little later. Painted blue in the last 10 years or so.
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Classical Revival with Touch of Italianate
The Patterson-Edwards House in Pulaski was built in 1890. It’s a Classical Revival with Italianate architecture, too. The columns seem so subtle, but there are so many and they have a lot of detail. I love the original iron fence.
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Old Tennessee Governor’s House
The Brown-Daly-Horne House in Pulaski was built in 1855 for Sarah Jane Roberts and her husband before being sold to John Calvin Brown. He was an attorney and governor of Tennessee. His brother Neill S. Brown also served as governor of Tennessee. The home was partially destroyed by fire in 1871 and was later fully…
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First House in Pulaski with Indoor Bathroom
This home in Pulaski, Tennessee is known as “Reveille” and was constructed in 1868. An earlier home was built on this location, but it was destroyed in a tornado on Christmas Eve in 1865. This home was built just a couple of years later on the same site by Benjamin Carter. It was the first…
