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Skipwith Hall/ Oakwood Hall
Photo by russograph Skipwith Hall/ Oakwood Hall is located at 2366 Williamsport Pike near Columbia. It was built in 1816 as a 2.5 story...
Jay Brothers
Jan 11, 20232 min read


Polk Home: Columbia keeps Pres. Polk's Legacy Alive
Polk Home was built in 1816 at 301 West 7th St. in Columbia. Samuel (1772-1827) and Jane Knox Polk (1776-1852) had moved their family...
Jay Brothers
Jan 11, 20231 min read


Webster Hall farm
Photo by Skye Marthaler Jonathan Webster (1767-1843) and Sarah Jossey Webster (1783-1830) married in 1805. (Jonathan’s first wife was...
Jay Brothers
Jan 11, 20232 min read


Ewell Farm - Home of "the widow Brown" and Gen. Ewell
Depot Lane Columbia, TN Circa 1810/ renovated 1867. Renovated to Italianate villa style Photo by Hal Jesperson Sitting on an initial...
Jay Brothers
Jan 11, 20233 min read


Antrim Farm - 1st Brick House south of Duck River
Photo from Visit Columbia When Rev. Joseph Brown inherited land in what became Maury Co. and then purchased more, he settled his family...
Jay Brothers
Jan 11, 20232 min read


Lipscomb Place
3200 North Cross Bridges Rd. Columbia, TN Circa 1838. 2-story wood home Maj. George W. Lipscomb (1813-1888) and Mary Clarissa Erwin...
Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20231 min read


Judge Nathan Green House: The Lawyers house - demolished in 2021
Photo from Historic Lebanon The Green home was host to families of lawyers. Sitting at 607 West Main St., the Nathan Green, Sr. home is a...
Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20232 min read


Cornsilk - An "Agrarian" Connection
Cornsilk/ Thomas Stringer House sits on Highland Rd. near Cross Plains. Thomas Stringer (1819-1900) and Eustacia Ann Nimmo Stringer...
Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20232 min read


James L. Fite House/ Fite-Fessenden House/ Fite-Fessenden Museum and Community Events Center
The James L. Fite House sits at 236 West Main St. in Lebanon. Styled with both Greek Revival and Italianate elements, the 2 story house...
Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20231 min read


Dr. John Owen Campbell House/ Campbell-Ruck House
Photo by Brian Stansberry Located at 2344 Lebanon Rd. (Highway 70), the Dr. John Owen Campbell/ Campbell-Ruck House, is a 2 story...
Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20231 min read


Camp Bell - Ft. Campbell Named in Owner's Honor
Photo by Brian Stansberry Camp Bell was built in 1835 in Greek Revival style on Coles Ferry Pike in Lebanon by Col. William Seawell and...
Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20232 min read


Robert L. Caruthers House(Oldest Brick Home in Lebanon)/ Ligon & Bobo Funeral Home
The Caruthers House sits at 241 West Main St. in Lebanon. The oldest brick residence in Lebanon, it was built in 1828 in Federal style in...
Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20232 min read
Cloydland Farm - Oldest in Wilson County
In 1780, Capt. John Cloyd, Jr. (1740-1795) and John Williamson accompanied James Roberton’s expedition to Middle Tennessee. They had...
Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20232 min read


Glen Oak: The start of Hillsboro Village
The land that became part of Hillsboro Village. Photo by nyttend Glen Oak was built in 1854 for Rev. Charles Tomes (1815-1857) and his...
Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20233 min read


Glen Echo at Spring Hill Farm
Glen Echo, built about 1794 by Rev. Thomas Brown Craighead (1750-1824), was located on Gallatin Rd. (between present K-Mart and Briley...
Jay Brothers
Jan 10, 20232 min read
It it Gone: The House of Mayors/ Collier-Lane-Crichlow
See Collier-Lane-Crichlow update blog: The historic home was demolished as it was in great disrepair. It has been vacant since 2018 with...
Jay Brothers
Jan 6, 20231 min read


Sylvan Park - Escaping the Nashville city
Near 4500 Nebraska Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1904. Gave name to the iconic Sylvan Park community on the west side Sylvan Park is located in the Sylvan Park area and was built by James A. Bowling (1854-1923) and Sarah Elizabeth “Lizzie” Byron Bowling (18587-1935). It was likely on some acreage near Nebraska and 46th Ave. North. Because of pollution and congestion in downtown Nashville, many people began taking day escapes to the area outside Nashville between West End and Charl
Jay Brothers
Jan 2, 20232 min read


Ashwood Hall: Keeping it in the family
Ashwood Hall was built in Columbia between 1833-1837 for Bishop Leonidas Polk (1806-1864) and Frances “Fanny” Ann Devereux Polk. Photo...
Jay Brothers
Dec 28, 20222 min read


Grey Walls: Early Green Hills Family
3414 Hillsboro PK Nashville, TN Circa 1924. 2-story English-style home Thomas Howard (T.H.) Estes (1880-1966) and Sarah Willis Newsom Estes (1875-1962) moved from East Nashville in 1924 to the country south of Nashville. The home looked over the fields and farmland of the Puryear and Hampton families across the valley along what in a few years would become the Concrete Blvd/ Woodmont Blvd. They built their home on 4 acres on the hill at the southeast corner of Hillsboro Rd. a
Jay Brothers
Dec 15, 20221 min read


Wildings: Beginnings of Cheekwood Gardens
Wildings was built in the early 1920s at 1925 East Greenwood Ave. (Eastland Ave. was originally Vaughn Pike.) Photo from Beautiful Homes...
Jay Brothers
Dec 15, 20221 min read

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