5001 Park Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1888. 2-story brick Italianate style Bishop Robert Kennon Hargrove (1829-1905) and Harriet Cornelius Scott Hargrove (1832-1894) built their home on 5001 Park Ave. Six years earlier, in 1882, the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, had elected Hargrove bishop. In 1886, the Methodist Episcopal Church South which had founded Vanderbilt University 9 years earlier named Bishop Hargrove to the Board of Trust, and then fr

Franklin Rd. at Tyne BL Nashville, TN Circa 1887. 3-story French Chateau style home with steeple turrent Oak Hill was built by Van Leer...

Image of Maplewood-1888. Drawing from Maplewood Neighbors Gallatin Pike Nashville, TN Early 1800s. 2-story home Maplewood was located on...

Corner of 51st Ave. North & Nebraska Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1795-1900. 2-story home Between 1795-1800, Judge Robert Hewitt and Lydia Ann Shute Hewitt (1783-1845) built their homestead. They wed about 1800. Judge Hewitt was a commissioned justice of the peace in 1799 and when the Davidson County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions was created in 1828, he was appointed chairman. His daughter, Emily D. Hewitt Childress (1800-1844) and husband Edwin Hickman Childress (1791-1865

Present Metrocenter area Nashville, TN Circa 1800. 2-story Federal brick home Coming from Virginia with his brother Randal McGavock in 1786, David McGavock, Jr. (1763-1838) surveyed and initially bought 960 acres in what became North Nashville including Freeland’s Station (Eighth Ave. North/ Rosa Parks Blvd. and Hume St.) starting in the 1780s. The area was generally in the present-day Metrocenter area. David also purchased 2 640-acre pieces of land across the river in East N

Sitting above Richland Creek at 211 Deer Park Dr., Braeburn was built by Miss Ida E. Hood (1848-1920) and Miss Susan L. Heron (1852-1933)...

931 Red River Rd. Gallatin, TN Circa 1827 as Federal style/ 1850 remodeled Near East Station Camp Creek, Wall Spring was actually built...

Near Rains Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1784 blockhouse/ unk Woodycrest home In 1784, Capt. John Rains (1753-1834) and Christina Gowens Rains...

1280 Old Hickory Blvd near the Davidson-Williamson County line Built about 1798 The McCrory-Mayfield house was built by Thomas McCrory III (1771-1818) and his wife Rachel right before the 19th century. It is a 2-story log home that was originally built on 640 acres and is one of only 4 remaining original log cabin structures dating from the 1790s era. McCrory married Rachel Shelby Leggett (1772-1830) in 1795. McCrory was an important early settler in the Nashville area and a

1400 Murfreesboro Rd., Nashville, TN Circa 1893. 2-story home in classic Colonial style Colemere was built by Col. Edward William...

3801 Hobbs Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1924. 2-story brick From a lovely mansion to a lovely school campus. Patrick Mann (P.M.) Estes...

Fairmont St. off West End Ave. Nashville, TN Circa mid-1890s. 2-story red brick Victorian style Perched prominently on the crest of a...