4133 Whites Creek Pike Nashville, TN
Circa 1916. 2-story white brick home
Henry Neuhoff (1870-1964) and Anna Amelia "Emma" Ernzen Neuhoff (1869-1932) built their home in the early 1900s. They wed in 1897. He had emigrated to America and become a butcher in 1888. After working in Rochester, NY and opening a butcher shop in St. Louis, MO, Henry and his family moved to Nashville as the Tennessee Centennial Exposition opened. They settled in the Germantown area and took many hams to the park. In 1906, Henry and his brother Lorenz opened Neuhoff Abattoir and Packing Company (later Neuhoff Packing) and eventually grew their operation to 14 acres along the Cumberland River in East Germantown. Because of the industry of so many residents, the area was known as Butcher Hollow. A Neuhoff specialty was Hampshire ham.
In 1907, the Neuhoffs bought their first home in Germantown at 1237 Sixth Ave. North.
In 1916, Neuhoff co-founded the German-American Bank of Nashville and served as first vice-president. During the Great War, the bank changed it name to Farmers and Merchants Bank. It was absorbed by several other banks in the twentieth century. Nineteen sixteen also saw the Neuhoff family purchase a 322-acre farm on Whites Creek Pike. The farmhouse dated back to 1820s. The family eventually moved out to the farm full-time for about a decade. In 1926, they moved back to Nashville and lived at 23rd Ave. North and Elliston Place.
About 1930, the Neuhoff company expanded to Dallas and built a site on the present-day America Airline Center as well as having an operation in Atlanta. The next year, in 1931, the Neuhoff family sold its business to Swift and Company as the Great Depression took effect.
In the 1940s/50s, William H. Thompson, Jr. (1930-2014) and Beverly Jean Overall Thompson (1928-2017) owned the property. Thompson had several careers in the financial sector and focused on leasing cattle to farmers and his Country Maid Dairy. Thompson also developed a portion of their lands into the Cherry Grove and Ole Orchard subdivisions. After Beverly died, the property was sold to new owners.
In 1988, Barbara Mandrell and her husband Ken Dudney purchased part of the former Neuhoff tract and converted the Neuhoff-Thompson House into the Inn at Fontanel. They resided there until about 2002. Then Dale Morris and Marc Oswald purchased that portion for business purposes. The business closed and the property was on the market in 2023. See Dubuisson-Neuhoff Home
Sources:
Nashville: A Short History & Select Buildings, p. 275
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