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Jay Brothers
Jan 14, 20232 min read
Alexander Ewing House/ Woodlon Hall
5101 Buena Vista Pike Nashville, TN Circa 1821. 2-story early Federal style home Woodlon Hall was built by Alexander Ewing (1752-1822)...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 14, 20232 min read
Shelby Hall/ Fatherland: Pioneer settler and doc in East Nashville
Shelby Hall hosted one of the most storied Nashville families in Nashville history. Dr. John and Anna Maria Shelby were important...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 14, 20233 min read
Burlington/ Father Ryan High School
Burlington was built by former mayor and Nashville silversmith Joseph Thorpe Elliston (1779-1856) and wife Elizabeth Odum Elliston...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20233 min read
Glen Oak: The start of Hillsboro Village
The land that became part of Hillsboro Village. Photo by nyttend Glen Oak was built in 1854 for Rev. Charles Tomes (1815-1857) and his...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20232 min read
Glen Echo at Spring Hill Farm
Glen Echo, built about 1794 by Rev. Thomas Brown Craighead (1750-1824), was located on Gallatin Rd. (between present K-Mart and Briley...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 2, 20232 min read
Sylvan Park - Escaping the Nashville city
Sylvan Park is located in the Sylvan Park area at 4501 Nebraska Ave. and built by James A. Bowling (1854-1923) and Sarah Elizabeth...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 15, 20221 min read
Grey Walls: Early Green Hills Family
Thomas Howard (T.H.) Estes (1880-1966) and Sarah Willis Newsom Estes (1875-1962) moved from East Nashville in 1924 to the country south...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 15, 20221 min read
Wildings: Beginnings of Cheekwood Gardens
Wildings was built in the early 1920s at 1925 East Greenwood Ave. (Eastland Ave. was originally Vaughn Pike.) Photo from Beautiful Homes...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 14, 20221 min read
Bonaventure: Offshoot of Honeywood Farm
The large red brick house was built in 1911 by Charles Clay Trabue (1872-1942) and Julia Malone Trabue (1874-1976). It sat on 15 acres...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 12, 20221 min read
Robincroft/ Timothy Demonbreun Home
Robincroft / Timothy Demonbreun House built in 1906 was owned by Thomas M. Robinson and Annie Robinson. Photo by Nyttend He was a...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 9, 20223 min read
Elmwood (Elm Hill) (Davidson Co.)
Elmwood was built in 1860 near Franklin Pike by William Wells (W.W.) Berry (1812-1878) and Jane Eliza White Berry (1820-1905). Photo from...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 7, 20223 min read
(River View)/ Fortland at Fortland Farms
Photo from Tennessee State Library and Archives River View was built in 1855 near the present Riverside Dr. and Eastland Ave. for Hiram...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 7, 20222 min read
Buddeke-Byrne House
The first mansion in what soon became Germantown west of the capitol, the Buddeke-Byrne House stood at the corner of Vine and Monroe Sts....
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Jay Brothers
Dec 6, 20222 min read
Kingsley: Connections to Many Families and one of the Few Fences after the Civil War
Thomas Seawell King (1786-1851) received a 640-acre land grant for military service to the young United States of America. The lands were...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 14, 20221 min read
Three Terraces: Miss Ellen's "Almost" Nashville Home
2006 Lombardy St. (off Hillsboro Rd.) Nashville, TN Circa started 1920 & completed 1930s. 2-story red brick home Photo from Redfin.com...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 14, 20222 min read
Royal Oaks Mansion: Moving West
4505 Harding Pike Nashville, TN (south side of Harding)(current side of Royal Oaks Tower) Circa 1900. 3-story English Tudor home Royal...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 8, 20222 min read
Avalon: Lipscomb Home Helped Start Lipscomb College
Photo from See Middle Tennessee Avalon was part of the 110 acre dairy farm on Granny White Pike which David Lipscomb (1831-1917) and...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 8, 20222 min read
Glencliff
Antioch Pike (former Mill Creek Valley Rd) off Murfreesboro Rd. Built in 1852 Glencliff was built by Maj. Andrew Franklin Goff...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 5, 20221 min read
Hardin Perkins Bostick Home
About 1843, Hardin Perkins Bostick (1804-1860) and Margaret Rebecca Litton Bostick (1804-1897) moved from Williamson Co. to Davidson Co....
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Jay Brothers
Nov 4, 20223 min read
Waverly Place: A Sir Walter Scott fan
Waverly Place was the home of Col. Albigence Waldo (A.W.) Putnam (1799-1869) and Cornelia Virginia Sevier Putnam (1816-1846). It is...
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