DIS Building, Nashville
Purpose / Function
The DIS Building, Nashville holds administrative and governmental offices of the Department of Integrated Services in Talented Nashville. Sub-departments in the DIS Building in Nashville include:
- Transportation, including The Interstate Portal Office and the Interstate Portal
- Education
- Justice
- Juvenile, State, Chancery, and Federal magical courts, including clerks of the courts
- District Attorney for the Southeast Talented Region
- Records and registrars
- Magical Emergency Management
Architecture
From the outside, the DIS looks like any other post-World War II office construction near Metro Center: a red-brick, rectangular, six-story utilitarian building with a flat roof and windows that don't open. There is no lawn, but there is a driving ramp that goes beneath the building to an underground parking garage. A sign on the building says simply, "Department of Integrated Services."
Inside, the building is much more appealing. A bright foyer with an Art Deco aesthetic leads to a black-marble and chrome reception desk, behind which are sleek escalators going both up and down. A bank of silver elevators, also decorated in an Art Deco style, are located behind the escalators. A second floor balcony overlooks the foyer. Most of the directors' offices are on the second floor and overlook the foyer.
Most offices are at the very least comfortable: carpeted, well- and practically- furnished, and windowed (even, in fact, when the office is an interior one). All offices have full Internet and computer access.
There is a well-stocked cafeteria and a fitness center on the fifth floor. Yes, of course it has a pool.
History
This DIS Building was built to replace an older building which was damaged in the 1952 tornado outbreak. The damage could have been repaired, but the Department of Integrated Services chose to raze the original building and upgrade to newer facilities.
Founding Date
1953
Type
Office
Parent Location
Owning Organization
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