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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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Jay Brothers
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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Jay Brothers
May 82 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 33 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 292 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 192 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 52 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 21 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 282 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 272 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 271 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 272 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 271 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 271 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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