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Jay Brothers
May 22, 20242 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 9, 20242 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
May 8, 20242 min read
Porter House
Credit: Our Southern Living magazine 300 West 6th St., Columbia Built 1816. 2 story cedar log home Elizabeth " Lizzie" Porter Woodfolk...
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Jay Brothers
May 8, 20241 min read
Buena Vista (Site later Columbia Arsenal, then Columbia ((Military)) Academy)
West 7th St. and Academy Lane in Columbia Built 1834 Dr. Williiam Junius Polk (1793-1860) married Mary Rebecca Long Polk (1797-1885) in...
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Jay Brothers
May 3, 20243 min read
Queen of the Cumberland/ Chris Smith House/ Smith-Trahern
Spring and McClure Streets Clarksville, TN Circa 1856-59. 2-story red brick Greek Revival and Italianate style The Christopher H. Smith...
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Jay Brothers
Apr 29, 20242 min read
Highland Hall: Reams Fleming Homeplace
Off Arno Rd. Williamson County, TN Circa 1840-45. Large 4-story brick mansion From lovelyfranklin.com Highland Hall was built between...
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Jay Brothers
Apr 29, 20241 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 19, 20242 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
Apr 5, 20242 min read
Hawthorn Hill: Doctors and Grand Ole Opry
495 Old Highway 25 Castalian Springs, TN Circa 1806. 2-story brick Federal style Hawthorn Hill was built in 1806 in the Castalian Springs...
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Jay Brothers
Mar 2, 20241 min read
Joseph Scales Home
Cox Rd. (about a mile west of U.S. Alt. 41) Rutherford Co. TN Circa 1845. 2-story frame Greek Revival style Joseph Griffith Scales...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 28, 20242 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 27, 20242 min read
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...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 27, 20241 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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Jay Brothers
Feb 27, 20242 min read
Rev. Preston Taylor Home
449 North Cherry St. (Fourth Ave. North) Nashville, TN Circa 1906. 2-story home From 1906 until his death, Rev. Dr. Preston Taylor...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 27, 20241 min read
Henry Harding's Edgehill home
1434 14th Ave. South Nashville, TN (Edgehill area) Circa 1910. (James) Henry Harding (1825-1888) purchased a home in the Edgehill area...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 27, 20241 min read
William Edmonson: First African-American show at Met Mus. of Art
1434 14th Ave. South (Edgehill area) Nashville, TN Circa 1935. \William Edmondson House was inhabited by the late blooming artist/...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 26, 20242 min read
Sherrod Bryant Farm/ Bryant's Grove
Bryant Grove area - West side of current Percy Priest Lake Nashville, TN Circa 1810. The Sherrod Bryant Home was on the Bryant Plantation...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 26, 20241 min read
Sampson Wesley Keeble home: Trailblazing Politician and Businessman
Broadway & 2nd Ave. South Nashville, TN Circa 1870s. A marker by the Tennessee Historical commission recognizes Keeble's home on Broadway...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 9, 20246 min read
Belle Meade Plantation: Iroquois and Belle Meade
Off Harding Rd. on Leake Ave. (Belle Meade) Nashville, TN Circa orig. 1819/ renovated 1832. 2-story Federal style mansion Belle Meade was...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 7, 20242 min read
John M. Gray Home (Wilmor Wedding Gift)/ Westminster Pres. Church
3900 West End Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1906. 2-story Georgian Colonial mansion In 1906, Col. B. F. and Sallie M. Wilson gave daughter...
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