Some of you are avid music fans and want to move to Middle Tennessee real estate to participate first hand in the musical events that are happening here all year round.  Consider living in real estate in downtown Nashville’s renaissance area—close to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.  There you will find gorgeous new Nashville homes in The Gulch, The Icon, The Terrazzo, and The Velocity as well as treasured older homes in the eastside Nashville historic neighborhoods.

The newer high-rise Nashville condominium neighborhoods are within walking distance of several musical venues, including the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Music Row, where the story of Middle Tennessee’s musical past is told.  New residents can even trace famous musicians to their old Nashville TN homes.

The Country Music Hall of Fame started in 1961 by the Country Music Association.  That year Jimmie Rodgers, Fred Rose, and Hank Williams were inducted.  Bronze plaques with the facial likeness and short biography for each inductee have been cast in subsequent years.  Until 1967, they were displayed in the Tennessee State Museum.

Plans to build the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Music Row were announced by the Country Music Association in 1963.  The Association also chartered the Country Music Foundation as a nonprofit, educational organization to operate the museum.  The new facility opened at Music Square East and division Street on April 1, 1967.  That location was closed at the end of the year 2000 and the building razed to become a parking lot for employees of the BMI music licensing firm.

On May 17, 2001, a new $37 million facility opened ten blocks away at 222 Fifth Avenue South in downtown.  The new Museum presents the crown jewels of its vast collection, telling the story of two centuries of country music.  Historic video footage, dynamic exhibits, a museum store, on-site dining, and state-of-the-art design wow millions of visitors each year.  Regular live performances, public programs, and live satellite radio broadcasts contribute to the visitor’s extraordinary experience.

Outside, symbolic images such as windows shaped like black piano keys, a diamond-shaped radio mast replicating the WSM tower, and round discs symbolizing various sizes of records and CDs.  From overhead, the building is shaped like a bass clef.  The local Tuck Hinton Architects and museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates collaborated on the design.

The purpose of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is to identify and preserve the evolving history and traditions of country music and to educate its audiences.  Educational programs, the Country Music Foundation (CMF) Press and CMF Records, CMF Library, historic RCA Studio B, and Hatch Show Print are adopted programs of the Museum.  The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums which exacts the highest standards of presentation, management, and service to the public.

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