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
Oct 281 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
May 82 min read
Porter House
Credit: Our Southern Living magazine 300 West 6th St., Columbia Built 1816. 2 story cedar log home Elizabeth " Lizzie" Porter Woodfolk...
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Jay Brothers
Mar 21 min read
Joseph Scales Home
Cox Rd. (about a mile west of U.S. Alt. 41) Rutherford Co. TN Circa 1845. 2-story frame Greek Revival style Joseph Griffith Scales...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 271 min read
Henry Harding's Edgehill home
1434 14th Ave. South Nashville, TN (Edgehill area) Circa 1910. (James) Henry Harding (1825-1888) purchased a home in the Edgehill area...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 271 min read
William Edmonson: First African-American show at Met Mus. of Art
1434 14th Ave. South (Edgehill area) Nashville, TN Circa 1935. \William Edmondson House was inhabited by the late blooming artist/...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 262 min read
Sherrod Bryant Farm/ Bryant's Grove
Bryant Grove area - West side of current Percy Priest Lake Nashville, TN Circa 1810. The Sherrod Bryant Home was on the Bryant Plantation...
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Jay Brothers
Feb 4, 20233 min read
Glen Leven Farm: A Thompson Family home
4000 Franklin Pike Nashville, TN 1790 Blockhouse/ Circa 1857. 2-story Federal style home Photo by Mark Mosrie The property was settled in...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 28, 20232 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...
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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...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 27, 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...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 26, 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”...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 25, 20231 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...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 25, 20232 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...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 25, 20234 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...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 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...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Carnton
Photo by Landry76 Carnton was built by Randal McGavock (1766-1843) and Sarah Dougherty Rodgers McGavock (1786-1854) in 1826 as a red...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Rutlege-Baxter Place/ Rose Hill/ now Foundations Nashville
101 Lea Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1813. Original 1-story brick Federal/ renovated 1820s & 1860s Photo by Nashville Post Rutledge-Baxter...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20231 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...
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Jay Brothers
Jan 23, 20232 min read
Travelers Rest to Richland-1st Brick House
Traveler’s Rest was built by General James Randolph Robertson (1742-1814) and Charlotte “Ciddy” Reeves Robertson (1751-1843) inside his...
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