MURFREESBORO — MTSU
students will display an important contribution to Murfreesboro’s historic
preservation this week.
“Cornerstone of the Community: A History of 110 West College
Street” will be unveiled at a gala celebration from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 2,
at The Center for the Arts.
The project is a chronicle of the site’s many incarnations
from the early 1800s to the present day. The varied uses of this landmark will
be told through a first-floor wall display that includes oral histories,
photographs and material culture.
The lot went through several revisions, becoming a livery
stable and a law office at different times, until the federal government bought
it for one dollar in 1907 and built the city’s first federal building there.
The post office was converted into the public library in 1963.
After the library moved to its current downtown location, the building opened
as The Center for the Arts in 1995.
Students who researched, planned and constructed the
permanent installation are in the “Essentials of Museum Management” class
taught by Dr. Brenden Martin of the MTSU Department of History.
The center’s exhibit will be about 20 feet long by 15 feet
wide, working around certain permanent structures.
For more information, contact Martin at 615-898-2643 or brenden.martin@mtsu.edu.
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