Address:
198 Adams Avenue
Memphis, TN 38103
1836
Cottage
Eugene Magevney
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Clapboard
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Outdoors
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The home/museum had to close in 2005 due to budget cuts
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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The descendants of Eugene Magevney gave the property to the City of Memphis, which adapted and operated it as a house museum
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Parlor
The first Catholic mass in Memphis was celebrated in the house, in the parlor. Mr. Magevney was a devout Catholic, as was his neighbor who attended. A traveling priest performed mass. The bureau in this image was used as the makeshift altar.
