ARCHITECTURAL WALKING TOURS

Preserve Chattanooga is updating its popular downtown walking tour and adding others. New tours are planned to launch soon. Missing the old tour? Download it here.

Thank you, Chattanooga Tourism, for awarding our organization a Cultural Tourism Advancement Grant to complete this project!

Downtown Historic District - Coming Soon!

BIG 9 & Southside - Coming Soon!

The Hunt for Hunt

Explore Our City with Kids

Exploring Chattanooga’s historic architecture and neighborhoods with kids from an early age can help foster their creativity and engage them with local history.

Take kids for a walk around places where they are able to interact with the built environment, including public parks, monuments, plazas, and buildings. Bring along some art supplies, such as paper and crayons, so they have a creative outlet during your exploration, and see if they want to draw a building or make a rubbing of an architectural detail or pattern.

To further enhance the kids’ experience, do some brief research about the site or neighborhood beforehand so you can talk to them about their surroundings and see what grabs their attention. They will fall in love with Chattanooga’s historic places and help us protect them for future generations.

DIG DEEPER

Learn more about Chattanooga’s architectural heritage and its history by exploring the sites below. Connect all the dots from basic geology to famous architects.

  • The ChattaStory Project aims to engage and connect people with places by immersing them in the geography, geology, and history of local sites using interactive ESRI ArcGIS StoryMaps. The StoryMaps can be viewed on a computer, phone, or tablet. Visit the site.

  • Launched in 2014 as ‘Deep Zoom Chattanooga’, this site is a free public portal to rarely accessible historic resources. Visit the site.

  • The Chattanooga Historical Society’s online photo database. Visit the catalog.