4101 Harding Pk Nashville, TN
Circa 1922. 2-story brick home
Situated across the street from Montgomery Bell Academy, Paul Lowe Sloan (1870-1932) and Anne Mai Joy Sloan (1872-1954) bought 4 acres from MBA in 1922. They had married in 1892, and then built a 2 story brick home fronting on Harding Pike.
Sloan was a co-founder of Cain-Sloan & Co. with Patrick H. Cain and John E. Cain in 1903. In 1916, Sloan, the company president, developed tuberculosis. His son, John Sloan, and grandson, John Sloan, Jr., owned Maple Grove. Sloan Jr.'s widow Delphine Oman Sloan Roberts owned Hillcote. Anne Mai's grandfather was Thomas H. Joy of Joy's Flowers and sister-in-law was Mildred Joy Cowan Gulbenk of Lynnmeade. After Paul’s death, Anne Mai remained at the property.
After her death, in 1955, Vine Street Christian Church voted to move to a new location. The church was named for the downtown street of its original location, Vine Street. The church purchased the Sloan estate with 5 acres and constructed a new sanctuary fronting Harding Pk.
In 2017, Vine Street sold 3.5 acres on the back of the property including the Hemlocks to MBA. In 2019, the home was razed. [Side note: In 1922, MBA also sold several more lots comprising another 4 acres along Harding Rd. and what is now the north end of Ensworth Ave. and extending west which had been part of the Totomoi estate.]
The Weil House, Wilran (R.T. Wilson Home), Totomoi, and Hemlock (Sloan Home) were neighbors with the major estate of Overbrook (Joe Warner) across the street along Harding Rd. See Maple Grove, Hillcote, Lynnmeade
Sources:
Nashville Pikes Vol. 3 150 Years Along Harding Pike, p. 138
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