The brick building on the edge of the Cumberland River has been described as a dilapidated castle. And to some, it looks haunted. But the old Neuhoff slaughterhouse is getting a fresh round of attention this summer for possible redevelopment.
The complex has lurked on the fringe of Nashville’s popular Germantown neighborhood since 1906.
It grew until the 1950s, but the departure of the meat industry in 1977 has allowed vines to run rampant over its red and pink bricks and trees to sprout on the roof, six stories up. The vegetation peeks up, visible from a nearby greenway, when crossing the Jefferson Street bridge, and from the river.
“If you look at it from the other side of the river it looks like Frankenstein’s castle,” said (continue reading at WPLN)