An exterior view of the Hermitage Club, located in between Church and Union Streets at 233 Sixth Avenue North, then called High Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa the early 1900s. The Hermitage Club was originally an elegant three- story private residence located next to the Hermitage Hotel. The builder of the house was Confederate Army Major George W. Cunningham.
During the American Civil War, it served as Federal headquarters for several different generals. Following the war, the Hermitage Club, an elite social club chartered in 1881, bought the Renaissance Revival-style building from Cunningham for $20,000.
