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Dec 22 min read
Howell House: A Legal Tradition
1230 2nd Ave. South Nashville, TN Circa 1870. 3- story Italianate style home Judge Morton Boyte Howell (1834-1909) and Isabella Elliott...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 21 min read
Sharp-Crabb Home: One of first in Hillsboro Village
1701 18th Ave. South Nashville, TN Circa 1911. 2-story Dutch Colonial Revival style with stepped gable ends Robert Sharp (1851-1920) and...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 152 min read
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...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 142 min read
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...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 132 min read
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...
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Jay Brothers
Oct 312 min read
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...
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Jay Brothers
Oct 311 min read
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...
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Jay Brothers
Oct 312 min read
Bel-Air (Patrick McQuire House)
105 North James Campbell BL Columbia, TN Circa 1830. 2-story simple Federal style with 5 bays By rossograph Patrick McGuire (1775-1850)...
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Jay Brothers
Oct 301 min read
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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Jay Brothers
Oct 281 min read
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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