4215 Richland Turnpike (current Harding Rd.) (current Windsor Towers Apartments) Nashville, TN Circa 1885. 2-story white brick Colonial...

1510/20 Old Hickory BL Brentwood, TN Circa 1846. Large 2-story Greek Revival home Dr. Green Jones Simmons (1813-1897) purchased 190 acres...

J.B. Weil House on Harding Rd. Vacant. Then Windsor Towers constructed. Daughter Peggy Weil Steine, prominent civic, political, arts support

Originally Abbott Lane (current Abbott-Martin Rd.) Nashville, TN Circa 1932. The Armistead family built their bucolic estate down Abbott...

1317 Chickering Rd. Nashville, TN Circa 1939. One of the last historic homes to make the HTH list cutoff of 1939. Boxwood Hall was built...

1000 Edgehill Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1800. Large 2-story home The spot of Nashville has seen so much change: Currey Hill to Meridian...

North Jefferson Pike (no longer exists) Built in 1842. 2 story red brick Greek Revival Dr. John Claiborne Gooch (1800-1853) and Elizabeth Ann Saunders Gooch (1814-1877) wed in 1831 and settled in Davidson Co. near the Williamson Co. border.  Their home was basically one mile north of the Smyna depot and one mile east of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad - close to the landing strips of the Smyrna/ Ruth. Co. Airport. They amassed about 2,155 acres across Davidson and Ruther

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...

Cheekwood, built by Leslie Cheek, Sr. (1875-1935) & Mabel Wood Cheek (1874-1946) in 1932, is located at 1200 Forrest Park Drive off Page...

101 Lea Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1813. Original 1-story brick Federal/ renovated 1820s & 1860s Image of Rutledge-Baxter Place (Rose Hill) Rutledge-Baxter Place / Rose Hill was built on College Hill by Joseph Coleman, Nashville’s first mayor. Coleman (?-1819) served as an early Nashville mayor from 1806-1809 and was married to Anne M. Coleman. When the Rutledge family was settling the Rutledge Sr's estate, Henry was surprised to learn bout a 75,000 acre Revolutionary War grant

5925 Ragland Dr. (near Franklin Rd.) Nashville, TN Circa 1892 Ravenscroft was built near Franklin Rd. on part of Judge Overton’s Travellers Rest estate south of Travellers Rest. Since their marriage was in 1892, Robert Edward Lee Overton (1866-1900) and his wife Nancy “Nannie” Baxter Overton (1871-1962) likely wed and lived at Ravenscroft from that date. Ravenscroft was probably named after Nannie’s grandparents name, Ravenscroft. The couple combined two very well-connected N

Sharing land with Trinity Presbyterian Church since 1944, Ingleside sits at 3201 Hillsboro Rd. This 2 story stone house was originally constructed in 1923 by unknown owners. At that time, it was built at the bottom of the long sloping hill on which Sharon Hill/ Bonnie Brae homes stood. Twenty-first Avenue had just changed its name to Hillsboro Rd. at the top of the hill before snaking down past the estate and heading back up a hill toward the growing Green Hills area.The Conc

The oldest son of Col. Henry and Ida Dickinson, Henry Dickinson, Jr. (1908-1951) inherited a portion of the Brightwood estate south of...

Wild Acres was bought by John Bernice (J.B.) Henderson, Sr. (1885-1966) and Ceacy Constance Doolion Henderson (1892-1968) about 1920. Comprising about 508 acres, it was on Porter Rd. and sat behind Riverwood in the Inglewood area. The land included what became Cornelia Fort Airpark. The Henderson family lived there for 40 years until the 1960s. J.B. prospered as owner and president of Southwestern Publishing Company of which he purchased controlling interest in 1921. He had b

Ridgeview was built in 1930 by Frank Mitchell Farris, Sr. 1890-1950) on 50 acres on Granny White Pike near Overton Lea Rd. and Tyne Blvd. He married Mary Frances Lellyett (1893-1967) in 1914. [Farris’ father Willis M. Farris was killed while on the train involved in the infamous 1918 Dutchman’s Curve train disaster. Frank used the settlement from his father’s death to fund Third National Bank.] Farris started at Nashville’s State Bank and Trust Co. and eventually opened his o

Photo by Andrew Jameson As he neared retirement, Meharry Medical College and its donors built this home in 1921 for Meharry Medical...

The 2 story brick French Regency home stands at 104 Lynwood Blvd with large acreage at the corner of Lynwood and Harding Rd. Image from...

This 2 story Colonial home on 3 acres was built by Dr. Horace C. Gayden (1896-1975) and Helen Lenore Roberts Gayden (1903-1963) in the mid 1920s. It was located near the current address 2025 Woodmont Blvd on the hill across from Gray Walls at Hillsboro Rd. and Woodmont Blvd - across from the present-day Woodmont Christian Church. In 1921, Dr. Gayden was a physician for the Tennessee Industrial School. He married Helen in 1922. Later Dr. Gayden had a urology practice on Church

Photo from Redfin Lone Oak was built in 1925 by Willam L. “Will” Horn was constructed of stone in English country manor style at 4306...

Photo by Nyttend The J. B. Daniel Home/ Women’s Club of Nashville was built in 1927-1929 by Judge (John) Beauregard T. Daniel (1861-1963)...