Harding Pk & Ensworth Ave. (current 101 Brixworth Lane) Nashville, TN
Circa 1915. 2-story Georgian style home.
Julius Bernard Weil (1873-1941) and Pauline Plonsky Weil (1884-1966) wed in 1908. They moved to Nashville from Georgia in 1915. The home had beautiful gardens behind the house toward the east. There was a gated entrance with an ornamental fountain that was just off Harding Rd.
Weil purchased the Nashville Coca-Cola bottling franchise as well as Coke plants in Lebanon and Springfield and was president of Coke plants in Columbia and Dickson. He was also a director of Broadway National Bank. He died at their winter home in Miani Beach, FL. Pauline subsequently became president of the Nashville Coca-Cola Bottling Works. Because of health problems, she sold her interest in the Coke plant after about 20 years in 1963. The bottling companies had grown to be one of the largest bottling companies in the South. Pauline was a member of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, of the Nashville Symphony Association and helped organize the original Clinic Bowl - which raised funds for handicapped children. Decades later, as a member of the Nashville Area Junior Chamber of Commerce, I had the honor of serving as the 1997 Co-Chair of the Clinic Bowl when we organized the TSSAA championship football games at Vanderbilt's former Dudley Field. The Weils helped establish the University School of Nashville.
After Pauline's death in 1963, the home remained vacant for a few years and then it was torn down. In 1985, Brixworth Apartments were developed on the site. In 2024, the property had been transformed into the Metropolitan Apartments on Brixworth Lane. [During my MBA years as a runner, I remember running across the overgrown property between Vine St. Church and Windsor Towers. The arches, broken asphalt driveway and large basin and fountain remained in the weed-chocked woods.]
Their daughter, Peggy Weil Steine married David Steine. Peggy was a large, important figure in Nashville politics and the civic community. She was a leader in the Jewish community and was the first woman President of Congregation Ohabai Shalom. She was a stalwart supporter of the arts from the former Summer Lights festival from 1982-1997, the Nashville Symphony Association, the Adventure Science Museum as well as being a founding board member of the Frist Center of the Visual Arts. Their daughter, Peggy Steine Richter, remembers her grandparents' home. She and her husband Dudley, who are delightful friends, have many family items from the home at their place.
The Weil House, Wilran (R.T. Wilson Home), Totomoi (Tinsley home), and Hemlock (Sloan Home) were neighbors with the major estate of Overbrook (Joe Warner) across the street along Harding Rd.
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