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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...
Jay Brothers
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...
Jay Brothers
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...
Jay Brothers
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...
Jay Brothers
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...
Jay Brothers
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...
Jay Brothers
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”...
Jay Brothers
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
Jay Brothers
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...
Jay Brothers
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...
Jay Brothers
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...
Jay Brothers
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...
Jay Brothers
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
Jay Brothers
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...
Jay Brothers
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
Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read


Rutlege-Baxter Place/ Rose Hill/ now Foundations Nashville: Home of Nashville's First Mayor
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
Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read


Gillespie-Brown House: The Almost Wedding Gift
??? Columbia, TN Circa 1830. Large Greek Revival home In 1830, Samuel Gillespie built what he wanted to be the “grandest house in...
Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20231 min read


Richland (originally Travelers Rest) - One of 1st Brick Houses in Nashville
5904 Robertson Rd. Nashville, TN Circa 1787. 2-story red brick Federal style home Traveler’s Rest was built by General James Randolph Robertson (1742-1814) and Charlotte “Ciddy” Reeves Robertson (1751-1843) inside his fort at 5904 Robertson Rd. James was one of the prominent western explorers who established the Watauga Association in North Carolina. In 1777, speculator Richard Henderson of the Transylvania Land Company purchased a vast area of land from the Cherokees that c
Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20232 min read


Belle Vue (II) (Old Harding Pike)
7306 Old Harding Pk Nashville, TN Circa 1820. 2-story white frame Classical Revival Photo by Roy and Jerry Klotz Built on the old...
Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read


John Spence Home (1866): A Fashionable Move/ James Moore House (1891)
Two separate home were built on the same location. John Spence House 503 North Maple. Murfreesboro, TN/ circa 1866 - demolished by 1890...
Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read

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