Haven’t you admired the six-story brick building at 710 Church Street along with its neighbor, the Bennie Dillon Building? The Doctor’s Buildings is notable for its use of glazed, terra-cotta tile.
Originally built in 1910 as a three-story building, it was designed by Edward E. Dougherty, a young Atlanta architect who was a graduate of the School of Architecture at Cornell University and who had studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he received the coveted diploma of the government of France in 1905.
In 1915, Dougherty was the architect for the clubhouse of the Nashville Golf and Country Club in the Belle Meade Deer Park.
Isn’t it nice to have a few handsome brick buildings like the Doctor’s Building and the Bennie Dillon Building downtown where they are dwarfed by glass skyscrapers?