8 N. 3rd St., Memphis, Tennessee. County/parish: Shelby.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 02, 1978. NRIS 78002636.
1 contributing building.
The Sterick Building is a historic skyscraper in Memphis, Tennessee. It was designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick & Co., and was completed in 1929—its name is a portmanteau of the original owners' names, Texas Governor Ross S. Sterling and Wyatt C. Hedrick. It is a gothic-style tower, 111 m (365 ft) tall with 31 floors, two of which are below grade. When it opened it 1929 it was noted as the tallest building in the American South and remained so until 1957. It stands at the corner of Madison Avenue and North B.B. King Boulevard.
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