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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Oct 311 min read
Norwood/ Father Ryan High School
780 Norwood Dr. Nashville, TN Circa 1939/40 Was part of the Thompson estate from Glen Leven Elizabeth Thompson Kennon (1892-1982) and Dr....
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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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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
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
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
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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Jay Brothers
Feb 4, 20233 min read
Glen Leven Farm: A Thompson Family home
4000 Franklin Pike Nashville, TN 1790 Blockhouse/ Circa 1857. 2-story Federal style home Photo by Mark Mosrie The property was settled in...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 4, 20233 min read
Craighead House: Another Connection to Earliest Nashville on the West side
Current 3710 Westbrook Ave. (just off West End Ave.) Nashville, TN Circa 1809. 2-story brick Federal style. Jonathan Friar Robertson...
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Jan 31, 20233 min read
Sylvan Hall/ Sugar Tree Grove/ William D. Philips Home
Dickerson Pike (originally Dickerson Meeting House Rd.) Nashville, TN Circa 1791/ rebuilt 1804 or 1808. Wood cabin/ then 3-story Greek...
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Jan 29, 20232 min read
McGavock-Gatewood-Webb House/ Fountain Blue
908 Meridian St. Nashville, TN Circa 1840. 2-story Federal style home. The McGavock-Gatewood-Webb House was built on Meridian St in East...
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Jan 29, 20232 min read
Hillhurst: A North Nashville landmark into the 1970s
Hillhurst Dr. (between I-65 and Dickerson Pike) Nashville, TN Circa 1851. Large 2-story Greek Revival style Image from Beautiful Homes &...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 29, 20232 min read
Wilmor Manor: Where the Streetcar line ended - Wilson Switch
Wilson BL at Harding Pike Nashville, TN Circa 1905. 3-story Modern Colonial style Wilmor Manor was built in 1905 for Col. Benjamin...
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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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Jan 25, 20234 min read
Devon Farm/ Harpeth/ Oak Hill/ now Ensworth High School
Devon Farm was built in 1795 by Capt. John L. Davis (1770-1853) just off the former Richland Turnpike - now 7401 Highway 100. After an...
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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
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, 20232 min read
Hunters Hill: Ties with WLAC and Female Suffrage
5401 Hillsboro Pk Nashville, TN Circa 1928. 2-story Tudor Revival style of weathered stone Hunters Hill was built by Guilford Dudley,...
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