The Neuhoff Slaughterhouse once sat on the outskirts of a booming Nashville, smack dab in the middle of the now upscale Germantown neighborhood. It was built in 1906 and closed in 1977, leaving a shattered group of buildings totaling over 700,000 square feet on the north side of the city. There have been multiple plans for reworking the place into condos or work space, but the city has yet to see them come to fruition. What, with its location right on the Cumberland? It would make a beautiful spot.
Until then, take a look at the plant as it looks now – eerily beautiful, full of untold stories.
Anthony Jones / Flickr The blown out windows and greenery weaving in and out of the walls gives this place a magical feel.
Anthony Jones / Flickr A garden of secrets, doesn’t it seem?
Anthony Jones / Flickr The shadow painted into one of the upstairs windows is sure to give any urban adventurer a bit of a scare.
Nashville Public Library Records Here’s a snap of the meat packing plant in its heyday.
Wayne Hsieh / Flickr
Anthony Jones / Flickr The place is falling to pieces, leaving only the strong brick and concrete walls to keep it together.
Anthony Jones / Flickr The slanting sun creates quite a strange atmosphere…
Anthony Jones / Flickr The amount of trash that fills the building - concrete, old machinery, garbage left by transients - would take a couple of semi-trucks to clear out well.
Anthony Jones / Flickr We couldn’t build Neuhoff back up today if we tried. It’s better to use the past as a building block, a nod at the lovely Nashville past.
WebUrbanist Care to take a walk on the wild side?
WebUrbanist The city, seen through the eyes of the past.
What a beautiful spot, what a strange place.
Anthony Jones / Flickr
The blown out windows and greenery weaving in and out of the walls gives this place a magical feel.
Anthony Jones / Flickr
A garden of secrets, doesn’t it seem?
The shadow painted into one of the upstairs windows is sure to give any urban adventurer a bit of a scare.
Nashville Public Library Records
Here’s a snap of the meat packing plant in its heyday.
Wayne Hsieh / Flickr
The place is falling to pieces, leaving only the strong brick and concrete walls to keep it together.
The slanting sun creates quite a strange atmosphere…
The amount of trash that fills the building - concrete, old machinery, garbage left by transients - would take a couple of semi-trucks to clear out well.
We couldn’t build Neuhoff back up today if we tried. It’s better to use the past as a building block, a nod at the lovely Nashville past.
WebUrbanist
Care to take a walk on the wild side?
The city, seen through the eyes of the past.
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