As buyers and sellers entered the handsome building, they found hallways lined with the finest Italian pink marble trimmed in rich cherry wood.  The main floor housed the offices of numerous livestock trading companies as well as a bank, a Western Union office, a barbershop, a saloon and a private gambling room with a 10-foot Craps table.  The upper floor housed the commissioner’s offices and livestock was auctioned off in the lower level.  

     For more than 50 years, the Stock-Yards prospered as the livestock trading center for the region, but as transportation and distribution channels evolved in the latter half of the century, the Nashville Union Stock-Yards were no longer necessary.  The Stock-Yards closed their doors in 1974, but the historic building would not be shuttered for long.

     In 1979 after extensive renovation, the Stock-Yard once again opened its doors, but this time as the Stock-Yard Restaurant.  Rooms that were once offices are now dining rooms.  The Stock-Yard is proud of its heritage and we are pleased to have become widely known as one of the finest restaurants in America.