There are 5 article(s) tagged Scott Blake:

• November 2021

  • Want a vintage, stained-glass window? Now’s your chance

    Salvaged over many decades from closed Episcopal churches in Tennessee, the 25 windows will be offered first to any local buyers until Jan. 1, then marketed internationally.

    By Tom Bailey November 22, 2021

• August 2021

  • Idea born in Victorian Village spreads throughout city

    EcoPro Services, a division of Empower Employs, provides jobs to the disadvantaged who sanitize agencies working with the homeless in Memphis.

    By Jane Roberts August 16, 2021

• July 2020

  • Victorian Village ‘outcast’ makes a comeback

    The restored columns of the circa 1840s Pillow-McIntyre House at Adams and Orleans were reinstalled last week, signalling at turn in fortunes for a sometimes forgotten house with some secrets.

    By Bill Dries July 19, 2020

• March 2019

  • Magevney House opens Fridays during Lent, prepares for city’s bicentennial

    The circa-1836 home of Irish immigrant Eugene Magevney is open for tours Fridays through April 12 and has plans as well as a wish list for a more active future.

    By Bill Dries March 16, 2019

• September 2018

  • New Victorian Village home built for Airbnb guests

    A house now under construction in Victorian Village is rare in two ways. It’s the first home in more than a century to be built in the 600 block of Adams, the core of old 19th-century neighborhood of mansions. And, the new house is intended solely for Airbnb guests.

    By Tom Bailey September 18, 2018