Downtown Chattanooga wasn’t a sought-after address in the late 1970s, when George Burton Pierce bought the Lincoln Apartments.
What a difference a few decades make.
“Everybody’s interested in living downtown again,” said Pierce’s daughter, Leslie Morris.
The booming demand for downtown dwelling is one reason that Morris and other family members of the late Pierce, who died in January 2013 at age 90, decided to sell. The family hopes to get just under $1.2 million for the 12-unit, three-story apartment building at 316 High St., a “carriage house” behind it with a two-bedroom apartment upstairs, and a 30-space parking lot at 318 High St.
Built in 1920, the Lincoln has hung on to its original character and features – despite the passage of almost a century.