by Joe Spake on January 1, 2012
Live in the heart of the city Memphis is not as old as some of the other famous Southern towns or even some of its less famous suburbs. Antebellum homes are pretty rare. It was a pleasure to work with Shelley and Mike on the purchase of a circa 1854 home in the Uptown neighborhood. [...]
by Joe Spake on December 19, 2011
Disaster sells, obviously Four of the most read posts on Joe Spake’s Weblog in 2011 were directly related to this year’s record flooding on the Mississippi River from the Memphis perspective. Interestingly the 6th most read post, about the Memphis ice storm of 1994, was written in January of 2010, and has been read consistently [...]
by Joe Spake on December 8, 2011
Will the Nineteenth Century Club fall victim to the track hoes? The Nineteenth Century Club is a philanthropic and cultural women’s organization. The organization bought the magnificent house at 1433 Union Avenue in 1926. The mansion was originally built for Rowland J. Darnell in 1909 and was one of many mansions that lined the stretch [...]