Edward Emmett Dougherty Edward Emmett Dougherty , a.k.a. Edwin Dougherty was an architect in the southeastern United States . One of his best known designs was the Tennessee War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville in 1922. The work won state and national design competitions.Early life Edward Emmett Dougherty was born on March 18 , 1876 in Atlanta, Georgia . He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1895. He then studied architecture at Cornell University and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.Career As an architect, Dougherty partnered with Arthur Neal Robinson for a few years. He was also a partner in Dougherty & Gardner and in Dougherty, Wallace and Clemmons . During the second part of his career from 1916, Dougherty worked in Nashville, Tennessee . In 1917, he designed the Belle Meade Apartments in Belle Meade, Tennessee near Nashville, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . He also designed projects for the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad.Several buildings designed by Dougherty are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.Dougherty received the contract for a 2,000 seat auditorium, Tennessee's War Memorial Building , now known as the War Memorial Auditorium in a "spirited competition" according to the Nashville Tennessean . A jury of nationally-known architects devised a competition to narrow the competitors to six; three from Tennessee and three from out-of state. The designers were kept anonymous and the choice was made by a commission of local city fathers at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville on February 14 , 1922. Dougherty's design was the unanimous choice.Personal life Dougherty married Blanche Carson on June 5, 1907.Death Dougherty died on November 11, 1943, at a Nashville Hospital at age 68. He had suffered a heart attack at his apartment the night before.Works One or more works in Adair Park Historic District , bounded by Metropolitan Pkwy., Lexington Ave., Norfolk Southern RR and Shelton Ave., Atlanta , Georgia , NRHP-listed Central Baptist Church, 500 N.E. 1st Ave., Miami, Florida , NRHP-listed Central Presbyterian Church, 201 Washington St . SW, Atlanta, Georgia, NRHP-listed Doctor's Building, 706 Church St., Nashville, Tennessee, NRHP-listed Druid Hills Baptist Church 1085 Ponce de Leon Ave. NE at Moreland Ave., Druid Hills , City of Atlanta Druid Hills Golf Club Guildfor Dudley, Sr. and Anne Dallas House, 5401 Hillsboro Pike Forest Hills, Tennessee , NRHP-listed Belle Meade Country Club Nashville, 815 Belle Meade Boulevard First Baptist Church, 510 Main Ave., Knoxville, Tennessee , NRHP-listed Highland School, 978 North Ave., NE, Atlanta, Georgia, NRHP-listed Hil'ardin/Sharp-Hardin-Wright House, 212 S. Lee St., Forsyth, Georgia , NRHP-listed Home Park School, 1031 State St., NW, Atlanta, Georgia, NRHP-listed Imperial Hotel, 355 Peachtree St ., Atlanta, Georgia, NRHP-listed One or more works in Valdosta Commercial Historic District , roughly bounded by Valley, Lee, and Toombs Sts. and Crane Ave., Valdosta, Georgia , NRHP-listed Sam Venable home, also known as Stonehedge Mansion and now converted to St. John's Lutheran Church Central Baptist Church, 500 NE 1st Ave. Miami, Florida It was built on lots donated by Henry Flagler . Gateway to Percy Warner Park , Nashville
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