GranDale Manor: Good story of Preservation and Repurpose
Original 2234 Murfreesboro Rd. / current 200 Nashboro Bl Nashville TN Circa 1830 / rebuilt in 1859/ expanded in 1880. 2-story frame home...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 142 min read
Wesley Wheless Mansion: Part of Early Edgefield community
East of Edgefield along Cumberland River Nashville, TN Circa 1857. 2- story Gothic Revival Villa style mansion Image of Wheless' Gothic...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 132 min read
Thomas Talbot Farmhouse: One of Mid TN's Earliest
Was near Dickerson PK and East Trinity Lane Nashville, TN Circa 1791. 2-story home From Sara Bratcher. Her great-aunt Elizabeth Kaufman...
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Jay Brothers
Oct 312 min read
Robert Donnell Stanford, Sr.: Developer of Donelson
Donelson, TN (aka Spring Place, Slip-Up and McWhirtersville, per Leona Taylor Aiken) Robert Donnell (R.D.) Stanford, Sr. (1889-1944) was...
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Jay Brothers
Oct 311 min read
Norwood/ Father Ryan High School
780 Norwood Dr. Nashville, TN Circa 1939/40 Was part of the Thompson estate from Glen Leven Elizabeth Thompson Kennon (1892-1982) and Dr....
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Jay Brothers
Sep 261 min read
Schnell Mansion: The SNUB
1111 16th Ave. South Nashville, TN Circa 1912. Large 2-story stone home. Jacob Powell Schnell (1841-1910) was a grocer in the Germantown...
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Jay Brothers
Aug 262 min read
Boyd House: Saved on Fisk Campus
1603 Meharry BL Nashville, TN Circa 1915-20. 2-story red brick with Doric columns Located on the Fisk Univ. campus, the Boyd House has...
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Jay Brothers
Aug 261 min read
General Stuff: Winn's Inn, Harding Pike paved, Hwy 100 Reroute
Early tavern: Maj. Wm T. Lewis (Fairfield) owned an early "hostelry" in 1796. It was just NE of Nashville's Public Square. By 1806, it...
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Jay Brothers
Aug 221 min read
Fairview 1 & 2 (in Green Hills)
3901 Hillsboro Rd. (Corner of Abbott Martin Rd) Nashville, TN About 1913. Large 2 story wood plantation home. Fairvew (Green Hills circa...
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Jay Brothers
Aug 182 min read
Ravenwood (1, 2)
Lebanon Rd. Nashville, TN Built 1903. 2-story stone home/ rebuilt in 1957 Sarah Dodson inherited land from her family in the Donelson...
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Jay Brothers
Jul 181 min read
Burlington (Abbott-Martin Rd.)
Originally Abbott Lane (current Abbott-Martin Rd.) Nashville, TN Circa 1932. The Armistead family built their bucolic estate down Abbott...
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Jay Brothers
Jun 161 min read
Boxwood Hall (Chickering Rd.): First Fleming Home
1317 Chickering Rd. Nashville, TN Circa 1939. One of the last historic homes to make the HTH list cutoff of 1939. Boxwood Hall was built...
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Jay Brothers
Jun 132 min read
Currey Hill to Rose Park: A Hill of Change
1000 Edgehill Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1800. Large 2-story home The spot of Nashville has seen so much change: Currey Hill to Meridian...
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Jay Brothers
May 222 min read
Goochland: Vandy Ties
North Jefferson Pike (no longer exists) Built in 1842. 2 story red brick Greek Revival Dr. John Claiborne Gooch (1800-1853) and Elizabeth...
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Jay Brothers
May 92 min read
Judge Edward East Home/ Wesdel
Couchville Pk (former Stones River Rd.) in Donelson Original portion built about 1810/ added 1880 - 2 stories with 18 rooms, wrap-around...
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Jay Brothers
Apr 291 min read
Belle Meade: Woodmont/ White Bridge Rd Aerial 1960s
Mae Ambrose kindly alerted me to this Metro Nashville Archive photo from what should be 1963-ish. What do you see/ Not see? No office...
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Jay Brothers
Apr 192 min read
Yalewood: Cosy Neighbors and Martha White Flour
1416 Chickering Rd. Nashville, TN Circa 1922. 2-story neo-classical mansion. About 1922, Mamie Craig Howell (1891-1981) and Joseph Toy...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 282 min read
Claiborne Mansion/ Tennessee School for the Blind
Current 108 Hermitage Ave. (former Fillmore St.) Nashville, TN Circa 1866. 4-story mansion The Claiborne Mansion was built on a hill...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 272 min read
Dr. L. A. Bowman Home: Nashville's African-American Rockefeller
Just west of the Korean Veterans Memorial terminus and 8th Ave. South roundabout and the site of the current Westin Hotel Nashville, TN...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 271 min read
Robert Fulton Boyd Home: Important Doctor and Financier
417 Cedar St. (Charlotte Ave.) Nashville, TN Circa 1900. Dr. Robert Fulton Boyd (1855-1912) purchased a large 3 story home on Cedar St....
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