Hillhurst Dr. (between I-65 and Dickerson Pike) Nashville, TN Circa 1851. Large 2-story Greek Revival style Image from Beautiful Homes &...

Wilson BL at Harding Pike Nashville, TN Circa 1905. 3-story Modern Colonial style Wilmor Manor was built in 1905 for Col. Benjamin...

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

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...

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

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

5401 Hillsboro Pk Nashville, TN Circa 1928. 2-story Tudor Revival style of weathered stone Hunters Hill was built by Guilford Dudley,...

Photo by Skye Marthaler 1418 Chickering Rd. Nashville, TN Circa 1935. 2-story French Chateau home Belleforest (Mrs. Edward B.Craig House)...

30 Castlewood Court (orig. 5901 Hillsboro Rd.) Nashville, TN Circa 1931. Tudor Revival style Richard E. Martin, a local builder, and his wife, Floyd Irene Martin, built the Tudor Revival style house that originally had 24 acres surrounding it. The land likely bordered the Hillsboro Rd/ Old Hickory BL intersection. Per local lore, Richard saved the life of Thomas Tyne, Jr. after an accident on Tyne Blvd. In gratitude, his father, Thomas Tyne, Sr. sold Martin property off the s

The oldest son of Col. Henry and Ida Dickinson, Henry Dickinson, Jr. (1908-1951) inherited a portion of the Brightwood estate south of...

In 1920, Herman Oscar Blackwood (1883-1931) and Josephine Mae “Josie” Bellamy Blackwood (1885-1961) built their home on four acres on the rise above the village of Green Hills. About five years prior, the Concrete Boulevard (Woodmont BL) had been cut through farmland including the Puryear and Hampton farms ending at the hill at Hillsboro Rd. (for awhile). Soon, Woodmont BL continued across the northern Green Hills area across to the southern end of the Melrose area at Frankl

Wild Acres was bought by John Bernice (J.B.) Henderson, Sr. (1885-1966) and Ceacy Constance Doolion Henderson (1892-1968) about 1920. Comprising about 508 acres, it was on Porter Rd. and sat behind Riverwood in the Inglewood area. The land included what became Cornelia Fort Airpark. The Henderson family lived there for 40 years until the 1960s. J.B. prospered as owner and president of Southwestern Publishing Company of which he purchased controlling interest in 1921. He had b

Ridgeview was built in 1930 by Frank Mitchell Farris, Sr. 1890-1950) on 50 acres on Granny White Pike near Overton Lea Rd. and Tyne Blvd. He married Mary Frances Lellyett (1893-1967) in 1914. [Farris’ father Willis M. Farris was killed while on the train involved in the infamous 1918 Dutchman’s Curve train disaster. Frank used the settlement from his father’s death to fund Third National Bank.] Farris started at Nashville’s State Bank and Trust Co. and eventually opened his o

Photo by Andrew Jameson 1109 First Ave. South Nashville, TN Circa 1921.2-story red brick with columned front porch As he neared retirement, Meharry Medical College and its donors built this home in 1921 for Meharry Medical College’s first president, George Whipple Hubbard (1841-1924 ) and his wife Sarah Anne "Annie" Lyons Hubbard (1825-1941). They wed in 1870. Having taught in various capacities during his life, in 1876, Hubbard opened the Meharry Medical Department of Centr

The 2 story brick French Regency home stands at 104 Lynwood Blvd with large acreage at the corner of Lynwood and Harding Rd. Image from...

This 2 story Colonial home on 3 acres was built by Dr. Horace C. Gayden (1896-1975) and Helen Lenore Roberts Gayden (1903-1963) in the mid 1920s. It was located near the current address 2025 Woodmont Blvd on the hill across from Gray Walls at Hillsboro Rd. and Woodmont Blvd - across from the present-day Woodmont Christian Church. In 1921, Dr. Gayden was a physician for the Tennessee Industrial School. He married Helen in 1922. Later Dr. Gayden had a urology practice on Church

Photo from Redfin Lone Oak was built in 1925 by Willam L. “Will” Horn was constructed of stone in English country manor style at 4306...

Photo by Nyttend The J. B. Daniel Home/ Women’s Club of Nashville was built in 1927-1929 by Judge (John) Beauregard T. Daniel (1861-1963)...

Pennington Bend in Madison Nashville, TN Circa 1928. Norman-style stone home Sherwood Forest was built on the bank of the Cumberland River in Madison near the top of Pennington Bend by Newman L. Cheek (1896-1979) and Sarah Richardson Johnson Cheek (?-1971). The home was a Norman-style stone home with a slate roof and turret. Behind the house was Cheek Lake and gardens until reaching the riverfront. Cheek was the youngest son of Joel Cheek, Sr., founder of Maxwell House Coffee

Sarah Gladys “Saidee” Cheney Williams Overton (1872-1963) built Beauvoir about 1930. It is my impression that Beauvoir was located in the hills off Tyne BL near Tyne Valley Rd and near Maxwell Ct. She was the widow of Jesse M. Overton. The year of 1922 was terrible for the Overton family: Father Jesse was killed in an auto crash and their son, John Williams Overton, was killed in action in World War I. Then later, about 1943, their daughter was killed in a car crash on her ho