Adaptive reuse gives new life to barns at former Baptist Children’s Home
The Union Depot mixed-use project is planned at the site of the former Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home in Bartlett. (Robert Dye/Special to the Daily Memphian)
The majority of the materials from the former Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home will be going to New Mexico to form a healing center for women. Memphis Rox, a nonprofit community outreach center and climbing facility in South Memphis, will get some of the wood for its use. (Robert Dye/Special to the Daily Memphian)
A team of friends and volunteers worked at the site of the former Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home for more than two weeks dropping timber and rafter assemblies weighing thousands of pounds. (Robert Dye/Special to the Daily Memphian)
In addition to the wood and roofing material, old tools and machinery are also being recycled from the former Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home. (Robert Dye/Special to the Daily Memphian)
Demolishing the buildings on the property of the former Tennessee Baptist Children’s Home has “been probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do in my life, but the end is in sight,” said Drew Taylor. (Robert Dye/Special to the Daily Memphian)
As crews begin clearing the property in Bartlett for a mixed-use development, the wood from the old buildings is being repurposed for good causes.
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Tennessee Baptist Children's Home Memphis Rox Bartlett Drew Taylor RIchard Weckerly Union DepotMichael Waddell
Michael Waddell is a native Memphian with more than 20 years of professional writing and editorial experience, working most recently with The Daily News and High Ground News.
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