Everett Dedman Woods was an architect based in Memphis,

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. He was the younger brother of fellow architect

Neander Woods Neander Montgomery Woods Jr. (1876 - 1956) was an architect in Memphis, Tennessee and in the northeastern United States including New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut. His most well known building is the Exchange Building in Memphis. His w ...

Jr. The Coca-Cola bottling plant he designed in

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is listed on the

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and a residence he built in Memphis became corporate headquarters for

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. He also designed East High School in Memphis. He worked with George Mahan Jr. designing residences for many prominent citizens before establishing his own firm in 1930. One of his designs, Poplar Plaza, was the first

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in Memphis and, according to a planning official in Memphis, the first shopping center in the United States designed for the automobile.

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was the developer. 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.

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* Scates Hall at the

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(1921) chief architect * Coca-Cola Bottling Plant, 126 US 51, S Covington, TN Woods, Everett NRHP listed * Everett Cook House which became

Corporate Headquarters and then Wright Medical's headquarters (1938), 1023 Cherry Rd. East High School Poplar Ave Memphis TN 004

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

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