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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...
Jay Brothers
Nov 15, 20242 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Nov 14, 20242 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Nov 13, 20242 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Oct 31, 20242 min read
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Norwood/ Father Ryan High School
780 Norwood Dr. Nashville, TN Circa 1939/40 The home was part of the Thompson estate from Glen Leven and just made the timeline for...
Jay Brothers
Oct 31, 20241 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Sep 26, 20241 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Aug 26, 20242 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Aug 26, 20241 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Aug 22, 20241 min read
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Ravenwood (1, 2): DeBow to Stanford to Ravenwood CC
Lebanon Rd. Nashville, TN Built 1903. 2-story stone home/ rebuilt in 1957 Sarah Dodson inherited land from her family in the Donelson...
Jay Brothers
Aug 18, 20242 min read
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Burlington (Abbott-Martin Rd.)
Originally Abbott Lane (current Abbott-Martin Rd.) Nashville, TN Circa 1932. The Armistead family built their bucolic estate down Abbott...
Jay Brothers
Jul 18, 20241 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Jun 16, 20241 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Jun 13, 20242 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
May 22, 20242 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
May 9, 20242 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Apr 29, 20241 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Apr 19, 20242 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Feb 28, 20242 min read
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Dr. L. A. Bowman Home: Nashville's African-American Rockefeller
Near 317 Eighth Ave. South Nashville, TN Cirac 1850s Just west of the Korean Veterans Memorial terminus and 8th Ave. South roundabout and...
Jay Brothers
Feb 27, 20242 min read
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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....
Jay Brothers
Feb 27, 20241 min read
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