Everett Woods

Everett Dedman Woods was an architect based in Memphis, Tennessee. He was the younger brother of fellow architect Neander Woods Jr. The Coca-Cola bottling plant he designed in Covington, Tennessee is listed on the National Register of Historic Places[1] and a residence he built in Memphis became corporate headquarters for Harrah's Entertainment. He also designed East High School in Memphis.

Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Covington, Tennessee

He worked with George Mahan Jr. designing residences for many prominent citizens[2] before establishing his own firm in 1930.[3]

One of his designs, Poplar Plaza, was the first shopping center in Memphis and, according to a planning official in Memphis, the first shopping center in the United States designed for the automobile. John B. Goodwin was the developer.[4] East High School was the largest and finest school in Memphis history when it was built and was the city's first integrated high school.[5]

Work
East High School
  • East High School[3] (1946) 3206 Poplar Avenue
  • West Tennessee Tuberculosis Hospital (1948) in association with another architectural firm[3]
  • Poplar Plaza (1949) at Poplar and Highland, Memphis[3] an early example of a shopping center
  • Brooks Art Museum wing (1950) since demolished[3]
  • Commercial block on Madison along with a planned but never built apartment building[2]

Further reading
  • Memphis An Architectural Guide by Eugene J. Johnson and Robert D. Russell Jr., The University of Tennessee Press, 1990, pp. 305–306
  • Selections from the work of George Mahan, Jr., architect [and] Everett Woods, associate. Memphis[6]

References
  1. "Tennessee Soft Drink Bottling Plants". Roadarch.com. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  2. "Crème de Memph". Cremedememph.blogspot.com. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  3. "The East High Alumni Page: The Architecture Of East High School". Easthigh.org. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  4. "Changes coming to Poplar Plaza, Memphis' first shopping center - The Daily Memphian". The Daily Memphian. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  5. "Plaza Gardens - Memphis Heritage". Memphisheritage.org. 10 March 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  6. Mahan, George; Woods, Everett Dedman. "Selections from the work of George Mahan, Jr., architect [and] Everett Woods, associate". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
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