Graystone: 1st of Daniel's Homes

2015 West End Ave. Nashville, TN

Circa 1907. Beautiful 2-story Italianate graystone home

Judge J. B. T. Daniel and his first wife built this West End home. He had bought the land five years prior in 1902. The prominent attorney and judge made a hobby of purchasing and restoring homes including seven in East Nashville. He and his wife made numerous trips to Europe for inspiration and for furnishings. Veteran local attorney Jack Norman noted that Daniel was the best torte attorney in Nashville - for general practice suits.

He sold Graystone to the Catholic Diocese in 1918 because of continuous noise (over 7 years) from the construction of the next-door Catholic Cathedral of the Incarnation and the commercial development in the area. The home then served as the rectory for the Catholic bishop. The Daniels built a new home further west in the Whitland/ Craighead area called Washington Hall. [Later, for a second wife, Judge Daniel built a home on Hillsboro Rd. on the rise of the hill toward the newly-developing Green Hills area. Afterward, it became The Women's Club.]

In 1990, Graystone was torn down.

See also Washington Hall, Daniel Home/ Women's Club