1904 funfact: It was the year of the Great Baltimore Fire and the Second Great Fire of Toronto.
Per MY INTERNET RESEARCH, there has apparently never been an event widely remembered as the "Great Fire of Chattanooga," only non-great fires. For instance, a tank farm blew up in 1972.
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In downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, on January 2nd, 2025, was a datestone at the Old Library Building (completed in 1905, originally a Carnegie Library; surfaced in marble; designed by Reuben Harrison Hunt; 73001776 on the National Register of Historic Places; presently a privately-owned office building) at the southeast corner of East 8th Street and Georgia Avenue.
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Chattanooga (7017496)
• Hamilton (county) (2001869)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• building stone (300011700)
• date stones (300374978)
• engraving (action) (300053829)
• historic buildings (300008063)
• marble (rock) (300011443)
• Neoclassical (300021477)
• oblique views (300015503)
• office buildings (300007043)
• public libraries (buildings) (300006877)
• repurposing (300417716)
Wikidata items:
• 2 January 2025 (Q69307403)
• 1900s in architecture (Q16482507)
• 1904 in architecture (Q2811011)
• 1905 in architecture (Q2744565)
• Anno Domini (Q159791)
• Carnegie library (Q1043939)
• Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-GA-AL Combined Statistical Area (Q5087906)
• East Tennessee (Q5329493)
• January 2025 (Q61312884)
• January 2 (Q2151)
• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)
• neoclassical architecture (Q54111)
• Old Library Building (Q56277740)
• Treaty of New Echota (Q1049395)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Public buildings—Tennessee (sh92003892)
Union List of Artist Names IDs:
• Hunt, R.H. (architect, active in Tennessee) (500517722)
