Greyhound Half-Way House

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Greyhound Half-Way House, Waverly, Tennessee

The Greyhound Half-Way House is a historic building at 124 East Main Street in Waverly. It was a Greyhound Lines rest stop built in 1938–1939, designed by architect William Nowland Van Powell in the Streamline Moderne style, and is faced with blue glazed tile. The “half-way” name reflects its location about halfway along a trip; in this case, near the midpoint of US Highway 70 between Nashville and Jackson, Tennessee. The station first opened in 1925, and the current structure was built in 1938–1939.

The site stopped operating as a Greyhound station in 1973 and was later boarded up and repainted. A similar half-way station in Flat River, Missouri still exists but has lost most of its historic appearance and now functions as a laundromat.

The Waverly Half-Way station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. In 2024, the building was purchased by the Humphreys County Arts Council, which plans to restore it for art classes, a gallery, and small events.