ANGEL PARK, one of the gathering places in the downtown area, with Friday evening music in the summer and various uses throughout the year, is of recent invention.
On its lease had stood the CASTLEBERRY HOUSE that was demolished in the second half of the 1970s for a new building that did not materialize.
The current public space grew out of interests among Sewanee business owners hoping to encourage more activity in the downtown area. The pavilion is named for the late Louis Rice, Jr., who as a devoted Sewanee alum returned to the community as a retiree and spent the last two decades of his life supporting the efforts of community building through the Sewanee Business Alliance he helped found.
photos courtesy of Mary O'Neill
The Castleberry House
It was the next-to-last historic residence in the downtown block. It had been an active lease from 1870, but from 1909 until its destruction it was lived in by Marie Castleberry and her descendants.
Photos courtesy of Mary O'Neill and Ina May Myers