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Jay Brothers
Dec 6, 20242 min read
Dunscomb House/ Frazer House: The Little Greek House
584 South Front St. Memphis, TN Circa 1840. 1-story Greek Revival style Home of Virginia Frazer Boyle: "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy"...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 6, 20241 min read
Dixon Mansion/ Dixon Galleries & Garden
4339 Park Ave. Memphis, TN Circa 1939. Large 2-story brick Georgian style mansion Hugo Norton Dixon (1892-1974) and Margaret Oates Dixon...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 5, 20241 min read
Mollie Fontaine Taylor House/ Mollie Fontaine Lounge
679 Adams Ave. Memphis, TN Circa 1866. Eclectic Revival style. From Storybook Memphis The home is part of the Victorian Village...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 5, 20242 min read
Eppy White Plantation
Near Poplar Rd. & S. White Station Rd. Memphis, TN Circa early 1830s. 2-story white columned home Col. Epaphroditus "Eppy" White...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 5, 20242 min read
Wilks Brooks House/ Woodlawn (Memphis)
One of earliest examples of Greek Revival house style in Memphis.
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Jay Brothers
Dec 5, 20242 min read
Rozelle Home
1737 Harbert St. Memphis, TN Circa 1853. 2-story Victorian style home Soloman Rozelle (1777-1856) was a pioneer and one of first white...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 4, 20241 min read
Mallory House
Mallory Lane Franklin, TN - about 4 miles north of Franklin Circa 1815 John Mallory (1780-1860) and Sarah Crockett Mallory (1787-1870)...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 4, 20241 min read
Thompson Building in Oxford
103 North Lamar Bl Oxford, MS Circa 1869.3-story building with a 2nd floor balcony added later The Thompson House was the first hotel...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 2, 20242 min read
Howell House: A Legal Tradition
1230 2nd Ave. South Nashville, TN Circa 1870. 3- story Italianate style home Judge Morton Boyte Howell (1834-1909) and Isabella Elliott...
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Jay Brothers
Dec 2, 20241 min read
Sharp-Crabb Home: One of first in Hillsboro Village
1701 18th Ave. South Nashville, TN Circa 1911. 2-story Dutch Colonial Revival style with stepped gable ends Robert Sharp (1851-1920) and...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 15, 20242 min read
GranDale Manor: Good story of Preservation and Repurpose
Original 2234 Murfreesboro Rd. / current 200 Nashboro Bl Nashville TN Circa 1830 / rebuilt in 1859/ expanded in 1880. 2-story frame home...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 14, 20242 min read
Wesley Wheless Mansion: Part of Early Edgefield community
East of Edgefield along Cumberland River Nashville, TN Circa 1857. 2- story Gothic Revival Villa style mansion Image of Wheless' Gothic...
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Jay Brothers
Nov 13, 20242 min read
Thomas Talbot Farmhouse: One of Mid TN's Earliest
Was near Dickerson PK and East Trinity Lane Nashville, TN Circa 1791. 2-story home From Sara Bratcher. Her great-aunt Elizabeth Kaufman...
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Jay Brothers
Oct 31, 20242 min read
Robert Donnell Stanford, Sr.: Developer of Donelson
Donelson, TN (aka Spring Place, Slip-Up and McWhirtersville, per Leona Taylor Aiken) Robert Donnell (R.D.) Stanford, Sr. (1889-1944) was...
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Jay Brothers
Oct 31, 20241 min read
Norwood/ Father Ryan High School
780 Norwood Dr. Nashville, TN Circa 1939/40 The home was part of the Thompson estate from Glen Leven and just made the timeline for...
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Jay Brothers
Oct 31, 20242 min read
Bel-Air (Patrick McQuire House)
105 North James Campbell BL Columbia, TN Circa 1830. 2-story simple Federal style with 5 bays By rossograph Patrick McGuire (1775-1850)...
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Jay Brothers
Oct 30, 20241 min read
Vacation Trivia: 1890s!!
Well-Known Vacation Spots in Tennessee in the 1890s Lookout Inn - Lookout Mtn, Chattanooga McCullough Hotel Point Hotel Kingston Springs...
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Jay Brothers
Oct 28, 20241 min read
FitzGerald Manor: First Indoor Plumbing in Sumner Co!
562 South Water Ave. (at South Water and Factory Lane) Gallatin, TN Circa 1869. 2 story Italianate home with a 3rd story watchtower Henry...
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Jay Brothers
Sep 26, 20241 min read
Schnell Mansion: The SNUB
1111 16th Ave. South Nashville, TN Circa 1912. Large 2-story stone home. Jacob Powell Schnell (1841-1910) was a grocer in the Germantown...
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Jay Brothers
Aug 26, 20242 min read
Boyd House: Saved on Fisk Campus
1603 Meharry BL Nashville, TN Circa 1915-20. 2-story red brick with Doric columns Located on the Fisk Univ. campus, the Boyd House has...
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