The Parthenon in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. It was designed by Confederate veteran William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
Today the Parthenon, which functions as an art museum, stands as the centerpiece of Centennial Park, a large public park just west of downtown Nashville. Alan LeQuire's 1990 re-creation of the Athena Parthenos statue is the focus of the Parthenon just as it was in ancient Greece. The statue of Athena Parthenos within is a reconstruction of the long-lost original to careful scholarly standards: she is cuirassed and helmeted, carries a shield on her left arm and a small 6-foot-high statue of Nike in her right palm, and stands 42 feet high, gilt with more than 8 pounds of gold leaf; an equally…
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Sun: 12:30 - 4:30 pm
Mon: closed
Full: $6
Children (4-17), Senior (62+): $4
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon_(Nashville)
Nashville.gov website http://www.nashville.gov/parthenon/
Email info@parthenon.org
Phone +1 615 862 8431
Address 2500 West End Ave Nashville, TN 37201, USA
Coordinates 36°8'59.251" N -86°48'47.974" E
