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T. D. Luckett Home - Home of a Tobacco Leader
750 Franklin St. Clarksville, TN Circa 1895. Ultra Victorian Queen Anne style The Luckett Home was built in 1895 by Thomas Dade (T.D.)...
Jay Brothers
Aug 9, 20221 min read
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Emerald Hill (Eagle's Nest) - Home of Clarksville's "Eagle Orator"
200 North Second St. Clarksville, TN Circa 1833. 2-story red brick Greek Revival with 2-story front portico Photo by Nyttend Marion...
Jay Brothers
Aug 9, 20223 min read
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Honeywood - the Malone farm: Entrance to the future Belle Meade Blvd.
Current 222 Belle Meade BL - off Richland-Harding Pike (now Harding Rd.) Nashville, TN Circa 1888. Honeywood was owned by Judge Thomas Henry Malone (1834-1906) and Ellen W. Fall Malone (1843-1898). He was admitted to the bar in 1859 and became a member of the firm Houston, Vaughn and Malone. He practiced there until the Civil War at which point he served in the Confederate States of America army. He was married to Ellen Fall in 1866. After the Civil War, he resumed his law ca
Jay Brothers
Aug 7, 20222 min read
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Bishop Robert K. Hargrove House
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
Jay Brothers
Aug 7, 20221 min read
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Oak Hill (Kirkman version/ Cheek version)/ Oak Hill School/ First Presbyterian Church
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...
Jay Brothers
Aug 7, 20223 min read
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Maplewood - one of the early communities north of Nashville
Image of Maplewood-1888. Drawing from Maplewood Neighbors Gallatin Pike Nashville, TN Early 1800s. 2-story home Maplewood was located on...
Jay Brothers
Aug 6, 20222 min read
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Hewitt-Childress Home - early settlement in Nations/ McCabe Park area
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
Jay Brothers
Aug 6, 20222 min read
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Braeburn - Misses Hood and Heron's Retirement Home
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)...
Jay Brothers
Aug 4, 20222 min read
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Early Outpost in South Nashville: Rains Station/ Woodycrest
Near Rains Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1784 blockhouse/ unk Woodycrest home In 1784, Capt. John Rains (1753-1834) and Christina Gowens Rains...
Jay Brothers
May 30, 20222 min read
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Colemere/ Colemere #2 - Cole's retirement country estate/ New Orleans Manor/ Monell's
1400 Murfreesboro Rd., Nashville, TN Circa 1893. 2-story home in classic Colonial style Colemere was built by Col. Edward William...
Jay Brothers
May 19, 20224 min read
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Grayswood (P.M. Estes)/ Harpeth Hall School
3801 Hobbs Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1924. 2-story brick From a lovely mansion to a lovely school campus. Patrick Mann (P.M.) Estes...
Jay Brothers
May 19, 20222 min read
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Acklen Hall
Fairmont St. off West End Ave. Nashville, TN Circa mid-1890s. 2-story red brick Victorian style Perched prominently on the crest of a...
Jay Brothers
May 19, 20223 min read
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