Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

A bread factory, a music store and a church all lived in the building before the amps moved in. Minglewood Hall, at 1555 Madison Avenue in Midtown Memphis, opened in February 2009 as the mid-sized concert venue the city had lacked for decades - bigger than the New Daisy Theatre, smaller than the Orpheum. The development was a local bet: The DeHart Group bought the former Strings and Things building in 2007 for 1.7 million dollars and sank five to six million into Minglewood Plaza, a mixed-use project whose anchor is the 1,500-capacity hall - developer J.De DeHart and manager Mike Smith openly aiming at the hole in the Memphis venue ladder. The room is deliberately elastic: a curtain system tunes both the acoustics and the size, configuring the hall from a 300-person general-admission club up to the full 1,500 standing - the same building also housing the 400-capacity 1884 Lounge for smaller bookings and the B-Side bar. The booking mix reflects the design: national tours across rock, hip-hop, metal and Americana share the calendar with local showcases and private events, Songkick logging over 900 concerts at the address - Buckethead, G Herbo and Vieux Farka Toure among the names through the doors. The location earns the traffic: Madison Avenue in Midtown puts the hall in the middle of the city's most walkable entertainment corridor, with Overton Square's restaurants a short hop and the venue's own plaza holding food and retail tenants around the lobby. Practical notes: the box office runs weekday daytime hours at the hall, parking uses the plaza lot and surrounding streets; the flat floor means arriving early matters for sightlines at sold-out standing shows, and checking whether a ticket is for the main hall or the 1884 Lounge saves confusion at the door. The building itself grew with the project: the roughly 64,000-square-foot property expanded toward 80,000 square feet through the renovation, and the hall now offers some 13,000 square feet of event space with a warming kitchen, LED lighting, concert-grade sound and valet parking - infrastructure that keeps weddings and corporate bookings filling the nights between tours.