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Sharp-Crabb Home: One of first in Hillsboro Village

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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Wesley Wheless Mansion: Part of Early Edgefield community

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

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

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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General Stuff: Winn's Inn, Harding Pike paved, Hwy 100 Reroute

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 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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Boxwood Hall (Chickering Rd.): First Fleming Home

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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Sylvan Hall/ Sugar Tree Grove/ William D. Philips Home

Jay Brothers

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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McGavock-Gatewood-Webb House/ Fountain Blue

Jay Brothers

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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Hillhurst: A North Nashville landmark into the 1970s

Jay Brothers

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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Wilmor Manor: Where the Streetcar line ended - Wilson Switch

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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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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Devon Farm/ Harpeth/ Oak Hill/ now Ensworth High School

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 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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Historic Travellers Rest-Nashville's oldest historic home museum

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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