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If the hallowed walls of the Ryman Auditorium could talk, the remarkable story they would tell is unmatched in entertainment history. It's construction is a tale of divine inspiration. In the 1880s, when prominent businessman and steamboat captain Thomas G. Ryman found salvation in the words of fiery evangelist reverend Sam Jones, he vowed to build a great tabernacle that would project Rev. Jones's voice clearly and powerfully for all to hear. Designed by architect Hugh Cathcart Thompson in the late Victorian Gothic revival style popular at the time, Tom Ryman's vision became reality with the completion of the Union Gospel Tabernacle in 1892. After his death in 1904, the Union Gospel Tabernacle would henceforth be known as the Ryman Auditorium to honor of the man who built the Nashville Landmark.