1326 Page Rd. Nashville, TN
Circa 1937/ renovated 1972. 2-story home with Colonial Williamsburg and Natchez styles
Hedgerow Hill was built just to the east of Percy Warner Park on Page Rd. by Wilson Blake Leech (1868-1944) and Beulah McLean Leech (1872-1961). Their daughter, Beulah McLean Leech Mayhew (1901-1969) and her husband, Dr. George Noel Mayhew (1897-1965), resided at the new mansion on 26 acres with them.
Dr. Mayhew was Professor of Comparative Religions at Vanderbilt University, 1939-38; then Professor of History of Religions 1939-50 and later Chairman of the Faculty of the School of Religion. His father-in-law Leech was an attorney from Dickson, TN and moved to Nashville. He was president of the Dickson Bank & Trust Co. in 1907. He continued his law practice in Nashville as well as becoming a director of Commerce Union Bank in Nashville and of First National Bank in McMinnville, TN. And was very involved in the lumber industry.
By 1972, Dr. Chambless Rand Johnston (1929-1994) and Anita Caroline O'Fallon Johnston (1930-1982) owned the mansion and renovated it. They wed in 1951. Dr. Johnston came from a prominent family in Missouri.
In the 1980s, Robert and Carol First purchased the home, and the property was called Glimpse of Glory. The mansion was constructed on 26 acres just outside the new Percy Warner Park. Wilson Blake Leech and Beulah McLean Leech built the home and resided there with their daughter Beulah, and her husband Dr. George N. Mayhew. The Mayhews wed in 1934.
Leech was an attorney and president of Dickson Bank & Trust in 1907 in Dickson, TN. The family moved to Nashville, and he continued his law practice, was a director of Commerce Union Bank in Nashville and of First National Bank in McMinnville, TN, and had an extensive lumber business with his father-in-law. Dr. Mayhew was Professor of Comparative Religion (1937-38) at Vanderbilt University and then served as Professor of History of Religion there from 1939-1950.
Later, in the 1980s, it was purchased by Dr. Robert A. and Carol Frist and renamed Glimpse of Glory. Robert is part of the HCA Healthcare Frist clan. He was a cardiac surgeon and invested in various companies. Their son is Robert A. "Bobby" Frist, Jr. who runs Healthstream was an MBA classmate and my daughter's basketball coach.
Sources:
Nashville: A Short History & Selected Buildings, Metropolitan Nashville Historical Commission, 1974, p. 197
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