2615 Franklin Rd. Nashville, TN Circa 1836. The Barrow’s Melrose Mansion overlooked the southern end of what became the Melrose area of Franklin Rd. At the site today stands the Melrose Kroger and assorted small businesses. The Barrow’s estate stretched across the south Nashville countryside. Melrose was built in 1836 across from G. W. Cooper’s Mount Alban. Alexander Barrow (1808-1846), Nashville lawyer, U.S. Senator and planter from Louisiana, was the first owner with his se