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Jay Brothers
Jan 28, 20232 min read
Washington Miller House/ Cedar Winds
Washington William Miller (1811-1892) and Susan Jane Hadley Miller (1813-1884) built the home in 1851 as a 4 over 4 home. His family...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 27, 20232 min read
Oak Top/ C.K. Smith Home: Siblings Succeed one another
Photo by Sbugsyk Oak Top/ C.K. Smith House was built in the 1850s by Thomas Watkins Wisdom (1824-1865) and Clara A. Beaumont Wisdom...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 27, 20232 min read
Johnson-Hach House: Daughter-in-Law was Grand Dame of Southern Cooking
403 Greenwood Ave. Clarksville, TN Circa 1877. 2-story Italianate style home Photo by Sbugsyk Johnson-Hach House was built on Greenwood...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 26, 20232 min read
Frierson-Pillow Home
405 West 7th St.Columbia, TN Circa 1876. 2-story Italianate and French Second Empire style Lucius Frierson (1840-1924) and Sarah “Kate”...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 26, 20232 min read
Ridgefield: Overlooked Belle Meade Theatre
Ridgefield was purchased by Anthony “Tony” Sudekum (1879-1946) and Nettie Elizabeth Fessler Sudekum (1882-1963) in the early 1920s on...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 25, 20234 min read
Devon Farm/ Harpeth/ Oak Hill/ now Ensworth High School
7401 Highway 100 Nashville, TN Circa 1795. 1.5 story brick farmhouse Devon Farm was built by Capt. John L. Davis (1770-1853) just off the...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 25, 20231 min read
Sullivan House/ Moran House
Patrick Joseph Sullivan (1828-1906) arrived in Clarksville in 1840 as a stone mason/ contractor with the railroad. Photo from Redfin...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 25, 20232 min read
Riverside Farm/ Pierce-Randolph House (Rutherford Co.): Beside Searcy-Mathews-Tarpley Home
1218 West Jefferson Pk. Walter Hill, TN Circa 1831. 2-story white frame home with 2-story columns at front portico Photo from Susan...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 25, 20234 min read
Cheekwood: Coffee and Arts are Good!
Cheekwood, built by Leslie Cheek, Sr. (1875-1935) & Mabel Wood Cheek (1874-1946) in 1932, is located at 1200 Forrest Park Drive off Page...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Mansfield House: Whig & Psychology
Was at 915 Blanton Ave. (off Murfreesboro Rd. west of Spence Lane) Nashville, TN Circa 1816 Mansfield was built Robert Coleman Foster...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Carnton
Photo by Landry76 Carnton was built by Randal McGavock (1766-1843) and Sarah Dougherty Rodgers McGavock (1786-1854) in 1826 as a red...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Historic Travellers Rest-Nashville's oldest historic home museum
Traveller’s Rest, home of Judge John Overton (1766-1833), was built Federal style in 1799 on the west fork of Mill Creek about seven...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Rutlege-Baxter Place/ Rose Hill/ now Foundations Nashville
101 Lea Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1813. Original 1-story brick Federal/ renovated 1820s & 1860s Photo by Nashville Post Rutledge-Baxter...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Gillespie-Brown House: The Almost Wedding Gift
??? Columbia, TN Circa 1830. Large Greek Revival home In 1830, Samuel Gillespie built what he wanted to be the “grandest house in...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20232 min read
Richland (originally Travelers Rest) - One of 1st Brick Houses in Nashville
5904 Robertson Rd. Nashville, TN Circa 1787. 2-story red brick Federal style home Traveler’s Rest was built by General James Randolph...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Belle Vue (II) (Old Harding Pike)
7306 Old Harding Pk Nashville, TN Circa 1820 2-story white frame Classical Revival Photo by Roy and Jerry Klotz Built on the old Richland...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read
John Spence Home (1866): A Fashionable Move/ James Moore House (1891)
Two separate home were built on the same location. John Spence House 503 North Maple. Murfreesboro, TN/ circa 1866 - demolished by 1890...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Benjamin Rucker Home/ Maple Grove/ The Betty Place
Photo by rossograph Built in 1832 at 3978 Betty Ford Rd. in Compton, the Benjamin Rucker Home sits near the East Fork of Stones River....
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Joseph Wilson House
367 Clovercroft Rd. Brentwood, TN Circa 1861. 2-story frame Greek Revival style The Joseph Wilson House was built at Clovercroft Rd. and...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20232 min read
Glenn-Merritt Home
531/533 Madison St. Clarksville, TN Circa 1869 James Lyle Glenn (1828-1916) and Ella Poindexter Glenn (1835-1875) built this home. They...
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