The First Horizon Bank Tower (formerly First National Bank Building and First Tennessee Bank Building) is a high-rise office building in

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Tenne ...

. The building's namesake is its main tenant

First Horizon Bank First Horizon Corporation, formerly First Tennessee Bank, is a financial services company, founded in 1864, and based in Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee. Through its banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank, it provides financial services thr ...

. It is currently the seventh tallest building in the city. Light panels adorn the sides of the building, which are used to illuminate various images on the side of the building at night.

History

The site was originally occupied by the Goodwyn Institute, an institutional office building completed in 1927. Construction of the building began in 1961 and was completed in 1964. Its formal ribbon-cutting ceremony occurred on March 22, 1964, and former state senator Lewis Taliaferro making the first transaction at the building.

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