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 in 1939. Samuel Milton Fleming and Ada Josephine Cliffe Fleming lived in the 2-story home on Chickering Rd. just off Percy Warner Park. He was the leader of Third National Bank and renowned regional banker. In 1960, the Flemings purchased a home in Belle Meade from John Manson Oman III (1906-1960) and Merida Maximina Blanco Pagan Oman - Boxwood at Jackson BL and Belle Meade BL
Fleming let his sister Mickie Fleming Farrar (1906 -1983) and Rudolph Samuel Farrar (1904 -1999) live in the home and eventually they purchased the property. Farrar was an investment banker with Wiley Bros. Investments and a director of Capitol Airways, Jesse Stallings ( Haynes Haven) prominent aircraft company. After Mickie passed away, Rudy remarried to Waldi Harnbostel.
Another relative, Toby S. "TJ" Wilt, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth "Betsy" now reside there on about 5 acres. Wilt is an entrepreneur who has had investments in Cumberland Transit (iconic Nashville outdoors store on West End Ave.), it neighbor Three Brothers coffee shop, and ESPACES, a growing office space company. He is also a founding board member of the Preservation Society of Nashville. Betsy is an agent with Fridrich & Clark Realty and has a background of residential marketing and interior design. Boxwood was on the market in 2019. See also Boxwood (Jackson).
Sources:
Chickering Road and its People, p. 137, Ridley Wills
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