Elm Street Methodist Church (Nashville)
church building in Tennessee, United States of America
Elm Street Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church building at 616 5th Avenue, South in Nashville, Tennessee. The building no longer serves as a place of worship and has been converted to offices. In 2019 it will be Bob Dylan's Heaven's Door whiskey's distillery and brand experience center.
It was built in 1871 in an Italianate style and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
“Elm Street Methodist Church (Nashville)” enters the record as church building in Tennessee, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Street, Methodist and Church can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Elm Street Methodist Church (Nashville)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Street, Methodist and Church provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5366340. Authority coordinates are 36.153, -86.773. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2019, 1871 and 1984.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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This entry incorporates text from “Elm Street Methodist Church (Nashville)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.