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Greenlaw, Memphis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Greenlaw is a Memphis neighbourhood, also recorded as Uptown, holding the Burkle Estate and the Porter-Leath House.
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Where to stay in Greenlaw
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
A room in Greenlaw puts the Burkle Estate and the Porter-Leath House within walking distance, in the Memphis district that the record also files under the name Uptown. Memphis holds the rooms. Beds elsewhere in the city leave Greenlaw as a short trip rather than an address, and the two historic houses as a stop on the way through.
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Greenlaw, filed as Uptown in the record, keeps both of its listed houses inside one Memphis neighbourhood. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in Greenlawwider Memphis beds with Greenlaw kept to an afternoonMemphis
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About Greenlaw
What are the main landmarks in Greenlaw?
Two names hold the list. The Burkle Estate and the Porter-Leath House are what the register records for Greenlaw, a pair of older Memphis houses standing in the neighbourhood the record also calls Uptown. Nothing else is listed inside it.
The rest of what a visit here reaches belongs to Memphis rather than to Greenlaw itself.
What is the history of Greenlaw?
Memphis never dated this neighbourhood's beginning. What Greenlaw carries instead is a pair of older houses: the Burkle Estate and the Porter-Leath House, the only built heritage the register attaches to this part of Memphis. The neighbourhood also answers to Uptown, the name under which the wider record files it.
Where is Greenlaw?
Greenlaw is a neighbourhood of Memphis, carried in the record as Uptown, with the Burkle Estate and the Porter-Leath House on its streets.
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What is the best area to stay in Greenlaw?
Greenlaw: stays built around the Burkle Estate and the Porter-Leath House. Memphis: wider Memphis beds with Greenlaw kept to an afternoon.
Updated October 2026