Photo from Tennessee State Library and Archives River View was built in 1855 near the present Riverside Dr. and Eastland Ave. for Hiram...

The first mansion in what soon became Germantown west of the capitol, the Buddeke-Byrne House stood at the corner of Vine and Monroe Sts....

Thomas Seawell King (1786-1851) received a 640-acre land grant for military service to the young United States of America. The lands were...

2006 Lombardy St. (off Hillsboro Rd.) Nashville, TN Circa started 1920 & completed 1930s. 2-story red brick home Photo from Redfin.com...

4505 Harding Pike Nashville, TN (south side of Harding)(current side of Royal Oaks Tower) Circa 1900. 3-story English Tudor home Royal...

Photo from See Middle Tennessee Avalon was part of the 110 acre dairy farm on Granny White Pike which David Lipscomb (1831-1917) and...

Antioch Pike (former Mill Creek Valley Rd) Nashville, TN Circa 1852 Glencliff was built by Maj. Andrew Franklin Goff (1809-1874) and Rebecca Jane Erwin Goff (1819-1885)(m1843). (Goff’s first wife was Adelaide W. Bramlett Goff, 1819-1842.) Rebecca was the daughter of John P. and Frances L.W. Erwin of Buena Vista. Goff was trained as a lawyer and practiced in Giles County and Davidson Co. in the early 1830s. In 1837, he was elected Attorney General for the area. Afterward, the

Charlotte Turnpike near downtown Nashville Nashville, TN Circa 1843. 2-story brick home About 1843, Hardin Perkins Bostick (1804-1860) and Margaret Rebecca Litton Bostick (1804-1897) moved from Williamson Co. to Davidson Co. They bought 45 acres on the north side of Charlotte Turnpike about a mile west of the Nashville Public Square (in the proximity of the current north Gulch area). Margaret was the sister of Ann Litton Cooper who lived with her husband W. B. in the W. B. Co

Near Eighth Ave. South & Benton Ave. Nashville, TN Circa unclear. Waverly Place was the home of Col. Albigence Waldo (A.W.) Putnam (1799-1869) and Cornelia Virginia Sevier Putnam (1816-1846). It is unclear when Waverly Place was built. They married in 1834. Putnam was a well-established lawyer/ banker in Port Gibson, Miss and a director of First Bank of Mississippi. Cornelia was the granddaughter of pioneer/ founder/ First Governor of Tennessee John Sevier. Col. His first wif

Cedar Lane near Brightwood Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1828 Lindon Mansion was owned by Col. Alexander Barclay (A.B.)”Alex” Montgomery (1802-1885) and his wife, Davidella Flournoy Montgomery (1813-1898)(m.1831). Col. Montgomery had built the mansion south of the Belmont/ Montvale estate on a hill near Cedar Lane. The mansion was used as a summer residence. At one point, the estate reached over 200 acres. The Montgomery Hill Plantation likely stretched from about 26th Ave. South

Hillcote was built in 1914 at 3800 Woodlawn Dr. Photo from Compass Realty Several sources cite 1914 as the construction date but the...

Hillsboro Rd. and Woodlawn Dr. Nashville, TN Circa 1898. 2 story brick with Corinthian columns. The Stokes family had a great view. Their Breeezemont mansion overlooked the hillside south from Hillsboro Rd. South to what is now the vast I-440 Parkway interchange. The home likely was built on the spot of the current Enclave at Hillsboro Village. Breezemont was built on the Stokes Family Farm by Walter Stokes (1862-1942) and Nellie Treanor Stokes (1862-1948). The estate stretch

Westview/ Walton-Brown Home originally had 200 acres and was located at 1508 Dickerson Pike. In 1850, Capt. William Bowen Walton...

8423 Old Harding Pike Nashville, TN Circa 1851. 2-story white frame home Beech Grove is on Old Harding Pike near the Davidson/ Williamson...

Longview, located at 811 Caldwell Lane near Franklin Pike, was built in 1842 for Henry Laurence Norvell (1818-1874) and Laura Jane Sevier...

Per a F.O. Beasley map listed on Nashville History Blogspot, the mansion fronted on Gallatin Rd. and sat on about 8 acres. It was a huge...

Tulip Grove (originally Poplar Grove) was built in 1836 on Lebanon Rd. by Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) and Emily Tennessee...

Current Delaware Ave. & 51st St. Nashville, TN Circa 1822. Large 2-story home with columned front Mark Robertson Cockrill (1788-1873)...

31st Ave. North and Charlotte Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1834. 3 story mansion In 1811, Matthew Barrow (1784-1855) and Martha (Patsy) Childress Barrow (1789-1872)(m.1808) bought 141 acres near present-day 31st Ave. North and Charlotte Ave. Patsy was the second oldest white child born in Davidson county. The mansion faced Charlotte Ave. As they prospered, the farm acreage increased to 500-600 acres and reached along both sides of Charlotte. Barrow was Register of Deeds for David

Vine St. (current 211 7th Ave. North) Nashville, TN Circa 1819. 2-story Palladium style Polk Place/ Grundy Place was built by Felix...