312 West 7th St. Columbia, TN Circa 1873. 3-story Second Empire style Photo by Matt Locke Sims Craig Latta (1840-1934) and Mary Cordelia...

Hwy 31 (Old Nashville Highway) Columbia, TN #1 Circa 1842/ #2 circa 1942. 2-story white brick Italianate style Spivey and Susanna...

Photo by Hal Jespersons Rippavilla was built between 1852-1855 in Spring Hill by Nathaniel “Nat” Francis Cheairs IV (1818-1914) & Susan...

Current 917 West 7th St. (former Hampshire Pike) Columbia, TN Circa 1851. 2-story brick Federal mansion In 1851, Judge Archelaus Madison...

Photo by Hal Jespersen The Martin Cheairs Home/ Ferguson Hall was built by Dr. John Haddox in Columbia in 1853. Dr. Haddox was a...

White Hall is a 2 story frame Greek Revival mansion at 2536 Duplex Rd. (old Mt. Carmel Rd.) in Spring Hill. Photo by Skye Marthaler The...

6197 Trotwood Ave. Columbia, TN Circa 1839. 2-story Greek Revival mansion Clifton Place was built for Gen. Gideon Johnson Pillow...

3331 Denning Lane Spring Hill, TN Circa 1825. 2-story brick mansion with 4 column front entry Photo from Historic Oaklawn plantation...

Mooresville Pike Columbia, TN Circa 1831-37. 3-story mansion in both Greek Revival and Federal influences Fairmont on Mooresville Pike in...

Photo by rossograph 2357 Park Plus Dr. Columbia, TN Circa 1837. 2.5 story red brick Greek Revival home Sarah Dick had two very loving and wealthy brothers - James and Nathaniel Dick - who had plantations around Louisiana and resided in New Orleans. James and Nathaniel were very wealthy cotton merchants in New Orleans who owned the N & J Dick Company. Sarah met Christopher Todd. Todd had emigrated from Virginia to Maury Co. in Tennessee in 1827. When Sarah and Christopher wed

3331 N. Cross Bridges Rd. Columbia, TN Circa 1836. Greek Revival style home Vine Hill is located in the Cross Bridges area and built by...

Greene Rd. Columbia, TN Circa 1834. 3-story Greek Revival home Robert Wilson (1774-1851) and Charlotte Anne Armstrong Wilson (1805-1874)...

305 West Sixth St. Columbia, TN Circa 1834. Similar to the Athenaeum Rectory. Photo by Juston House Patrick Maguire, a very successful...

Rout 1/ Mt. Pleasant Pike Columbia, TN Circa 1832. 2-story red brick Palladian style with front porticos 1st & 2nd floor Across the road from Rattle and Snap - built for brother Hamilton Place/ Polk-Yeatman Home was built on the Columbia Hwy by Col. William Polk for his son Lucius Junius Polk (1802-1870). It was the first of the Polk plantations built on the 5,600 acre “Rattle and Snap” land, and Lucius received about 1,300 acres from his father, Col. Polk - as did his two br

Idlewild was located at 809 Main Street in Edgefield (near the current intersection of Main St. and Neill Ave.) across the river from downtown Nashville. Built about 1848, it was the home of Neill Smith Brown (1810-1886) and Mary Ann Trimble Brown (1818-1895). Mary Ann was the daughter of Judge Trimble. In the late 1840s, the area was home to just a few large estates including Dr. John Shelby’s Shelby Hall and Robert Weakley’s Lockeland. The area was primarily fields east of

Photo by Shelly Hamby Murfreesboro Rd. near Briley Pkwy (near current Dunailie Dr.) Nashville, TN Circa 1848. Dun Ailie was built by...

Near Charlotte and Clifton Aves. Nashville, TN Circa pre-1845. 2 story, 13-room brick The home had been built earlier by Samuel Watkins (1794-1880). Watkins was a businessman and in his will made a bequest of money and land to found Watkins Institute. Washington Bogart Cooper (1802-1888) and Ann Litton Cooper (1806-1892) purchased the home and land from Nathaniel A. McNairy in 1845 which sat near the current Charlotte and Clifton Aves (current 507 20th Ave. North). The Coope

3021 Lealand Lane Nashville, TN Circa 1843. 2-story white clapboard home in Greek Revival style Photo by Www.78 Sunnyside/ Lee Monte/...

Cedar Hill was built by George Washington Campbell (1769-1848) and Harriet Stoddert Campbell (1788-1848) in 1843. Harriet was the...

Fifth Ave. North Nashville, TN Circa 1862. 2-story red brick Federal style George Henry Ratterman (1824-1898) came to Nashville from...