Vacation Trivia: 1890s!!
Well-Known Vacation Spots in Tennessee in the 1890s Lookout Inn - Lookout Mtn, Chattanooga McCullough Hotel Point Hotel Kingston Springs...
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FitzGerald Manor: First Indoor Plumbing in Sumner Co!
562 South Water Ave. (at South Water and Factory Lane) Gallatin, TN Circa 1869. 2 story Italianate home with a 3rd story watchtower Henry...
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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 233 min read
Poplar Grove/ Tree Lawn: Franklin almost named Marthasville
Current: New Highway 96 & Founders Pointe BL Franklin, TN Circa late 1790s. Dogtrot cabin to small house to larger home Abraham "Abram"...
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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
Jul 61 min read
Beaumont House
College St. Clarksville, TN Circa 1860. 2-story brick home. Henry Francisco Beaumont (1800-1864) married Sarah Gibson Anderson Beaumont...
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Jay Brothers
Jun 232 min read
Joseph Dunlop House (Ayreshire): Mid-2023 Demolition threatened
517 Madison St. Clarksville, TN Circa 1914. 2-story red Mediterranean-style home with terra-cotta roof From VisitClarksville.com Joseph...
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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
Jun 71 min read
Belmont: A Fairfield Offspring outside Clarksville
Portion of the Fairfield farm. Clarksville, TN Circa 1860s. William McClure Drane (1826-1909) and Amelia Washington Haddox Drane...
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Jay Brothers
Jun 71 min read
Hartman-Alexander-Dee-Stroop House/ Erin-Aeol House
Former 1433 North Maple/ Lebanon Pk (current Memorial BL) Murfreesboro, TN Circa 1871-1887. 2-story Greek Revival home with a tower From...
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Jay Brothers
Jun 72 min read
Mayes Place
306 West Sixth St. Columbia, TN Circa 1858. Large 2-story brick Greek Revival and Mediterrean style Names: Mayes Place aka Mayes Manor/...
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Jun 61 min read
Halcyon Hall
212 West 6th St. Columbia, TN Circa 1845. Built in 1845, Joseph Alfred Walker (1810-1882) and Adaline Ann Elizabeth Nelson Walker...
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Jay Brothers
Jun 61 min read
Riverview: Bye bye because of I-65
Near Murfreesboro Rd. and Hwy 96. Circa 1820 Built by John Nichols (1789-1863) and Elizabeth McCown Nichols (1799-1881). They wed in...
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Jay Brothers
Jun 51 min read
Hightower Place/ Buck Davis Place
Old Wilson PK south of Old Smyrna Rd. in the current Corondele subdivision. Circa 1800 Richard R. Hightower (1764-1820) and Nancy L....
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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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