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Bethel Place/ Pillow-Bethel House: The Third Pillow Mansion
Mt. Pleasant Pike Mt. Pleasant, TN Circa 1855. 2-story Greek Revival mansion Jerome Bonaparte Pillow (1809-1891) and Elvira Dale Pillow...
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Jan 29, 20231 min read


Wilmor Manor: Where the Streetcar line ended - Wilson Switch
Wilson BL at Harding Pike Nashville, TN Circa 1905. 3-story Modern Colonial style Wilmor Manor was built in 1905 for Col. Benjamin...
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Jan 29, 20232 min read


Rose Mont/ Josephus Conn Guild House: Horses & TN History
810 South Water St. Gallatin, TN Circa 1836-42. 2-story red brick Greek Revival Palladian style Rose Mont, located in Gallatin two miles...
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Jan 28, 20232 min read


Trousdale-Baskerville House
Photo by rossograph 211 West Smith St. Gallatin, TN Circa 1838. 2-story Federal style Trousdale-Baskerville House (aka Baskerville House,...
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Jan 28, 20232 min read


Harris-McEwen House: Bunch of Franklin history
612 Fair Street Franklin, TN Circa 1830. Image from Visit Franklin site Carey Allen Harris, Sr. (1805-1842) built the home on 11 acres....
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Jan 28, 20232 min read


Homestead Manor: Early Thompson's Station & 3 Daughters Wed 3 Brothers!
The Giddens and the Buford families were close - offspring married one another. Three Giddens sisters wed three Buford brothers and one Gidden son married a Buford daughter! Image from Tenn. State Lib. & Archives 4683 Columbia Pike Thompson Station, TN Circa 1809-19. 2-story brick home This property was built from 1809-1819 by Francis Seymour Giddens, Sr. (1753-1830) and Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” White Giddens (1757-1833) in Thompson Station. They wed in 1782. It was built in Ge
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Jan 28, 20233 min read
Mark Montgomery Andrews Place
Lewisburg Pk Franklin, TN Circa 1812. 2-story log home Henry B. Reams (1786-1836) and Sarah “Sally” North Reams (1795-1835) built this...
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Jan 28, 20231 min read
Castlewood (Rutherford Co.): A modernized dairy farm
Castlewood was built in the early 1840s for Marman Spence (1798-1847) and Sara Wasson Spence (1791-1857). They wed in 1826. It was...
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Jan 28, 20232 min read


Washington Miller House/ Cedar Winds
Washington William Miller (1811-1892) and Susan Jane Hadley Miller (1813-1884) built the home in 1851 as a 4 over 4 home. His family...
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Jan 28, 20232 min read


Oak Top/ C.K. Smith Home: Siblings Succeed one another
Photo by Sbugsyk Oak Top/ C.K. Smith House was built in the 1850s by Thomas Watkins Wisdom (1824-1865) and Clara A. Beaumont Wisdom...
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Jan 27, 20232 min read


Johnson-Hach House: Daughter-in-Law was Grand Dame of Southern Cooking
403 Greenwood Ave. Clarksville, TN Circa 1877. 2-story Italianate style home Photo by Sbugsyk Johnson-Hach House was built on Greenwood Ave. south of Madison Ave. (U.S. Hwy 41). The house sits on 6.7 acres and was built about 1877 by Polk Grundy Johnson (1844-1889) and Nannie W. Tyler Johnson (1841-1877). She was his next door neighbor and the sister of Judge Tyler. They wed in 1875. Polk’s first wife was Emma V. Robb who died in 1872. He was an attorney and Chancery Court Cl
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Jan 27, 20232 min read


Frierson-Pillow Home
405 West 7th St.Columbia, TN Circa 1876. 2-story Italianate and French Second Empire style Lucius Frierson (1840-1924) and Sarah “Kate”...
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Jan 26, 20232 min read


Ridgefield: Overlooked Belle Meade Theatre
Off Harding Rd. near Woodlawn Dr. Nashville, TN Circa UNK. 2- story brick and stone home Anthony “Tony” Sudekum (1879-1946) and Nettie Elizabeth Fessler Sudekum (1882-1963)(m1904) bought Lot #1 offered by the Kenner Land Company in the 1930s on Harding Rd. They subsequently built Ridgefield. His family had owned a 102 acre farm on Granny White Pike which in 1920 they sold for development. Ridgefield was just southwest of Tinsley’s Totomoi and down the street from Judge Waller
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Jan 26, 20233 min read


Devon Farm/ Harpeth/ Oak Hill/ now Ensworth High School
7401 Highway 100 Nashville, TN Circa 1795. 1.5 story brick farmhouse Devon Farm was built by Capt. John L. Davis (1770-1853) just off the...
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Jan 25, 20234 min read


Sullivan House/ Moran House
Patrick Joseph Sullivan (1828-1906) arrived in Clarksville in 1840 as a stone mason/ contractor with the railroad. Photo from Redfin...
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Jan 25, 20231 min read


Riverside Farm/ Pierce-Randolph House (Rutherford Co.): Beside Searcy-Mathews-Tarpley Home
1218 West Jefferson Pk. Walter Hill, TN Circa 1831. 2-story white frame home with 2-story columns at front portico Photo from Susan...
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Jan 25, 20232 min read


Cheekwood: Coffee and Arts are Good!
Cheekwood, built by Leslie Cheek, Sr. (1875-1935) & Mabel Wood Cheek (1874-1946) in 1932, is located at 1200 Forrest Park Drive off Page...
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Jan 25, 20234 min read


Mansfield House: Whig & Psychology
Was at 915 Blanton Ave. (off Murfreesboro Rd. west of Spence Lane) Nashville, TN Circa 1816 Mansfield was built Robert Coleman Foster (1769-1844) and Ann Slaughter Hubbard Foster (1770-1850). The Foster came down from Bardstown, KY to Nashville with their family. Foster was an attorney who served in the Tennessee House of Representative (1803-0-7) and State Senate (1809-15)(1825-27). The plantation was inherited by their son Hon. Ephraim Hubbard Foster (1794-1854) and Jennet
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Jan 23, 20233 min read


Carnton
1345 Eastern Flank Cir. Franklin, TN Circa 1826. 2-story red brick Federal home Photo by Landry76 Carnton was built by Randal McGavock...
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Jan 23, 20233 min read


Historic Travellers Rest-Nashville's oldest historic home museum
636 Farrell Parkway Nashville, TN Circa 1799. 2-story Federal style home Traveller’s Rest was the home of Judge John Overton (1766-1833) who built his home on the west fork of Mill Creek about seven miles south of Nashville. Overton was one of the first lawyers in Nashville and raised Arabian horses. The property was originally called Golgotha before it became known as Travellers Rest. At the farm, he raised and sold peaches, apple tree slips, and cotton. In 1820, Judge Overt
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Jan 23, 20233 min read

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