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Graystone: 1st of Daniel's Homes
2015 West End Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1907. Beautiful 2-story Italianate graystone home Judge J. B. T. Daniel and his first wife built...
Jay Brothers
Mar 21, 20251 min read
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Wilran (R. T. Wilson House): Down the Street from Wilson Family
4215 Richland Turnpike (current Harding Rd.) (current Windsor Towers Apartments) Nashville, TN Circa 1885. 2-story white brick Colonial...
Jay Brothers
Mar 10, 20252 min read
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Julius B. Weil House (now Metropolitan Apartments)
J.B. Weil House on Harding Rd. Vacant. Then Windsor Towers constructed. Daughter Peggy Weil Steine, prominent civic, political, arts support
Jay Brothers
Dec 25, 20242 min read
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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...
Jay Brothers
Sep 26, 20241 min read
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Joseph Dunlop House (Ayreshire): Mid-2023 Demolition threatened
517 Madison St. Clarksville, TN Circa 1914. 2-story red Mediterranean-style home with terra-cotta roof From VisitClarksville.com Joseph...
Jay Brothers
Jun 23, 20242 min read
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Boxwood Hall (Chickering Rd.): First Fleming Home
1317 Chickering Rd. Nashville, TN Circa 1939. One of the last historic homes to make the HTH list cutoff of 1939. Boxwood Hall was built...
Jay Brothers
Jun 16, 20241 min read
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Hartman-Alexander-Dee-Stroop House/ Erin-Aeol House
Former 1433 North Maple/ Lebanon Pk (current Memorial BL) Murfreesboro, TN Circa 1871-1887. 2-story Greek Revival home with a tower From...
Jay Brothers
Jun 7, 20241 min read
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Halcyon Hall
212 West 6th St. Columbia, TN Circa 1845. Built in 1845, Joseph Alfred Walker (1810-1882) and Adaline Ann Elizabeth Nelson Walker...
Jay Brothers
Jun 6, 20241 min read
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Hightower Place/ Buck Davis Place
Old Wilson PK south of Old Smyrna Rd. in the current Corondele subdivision. Circa 1800 Richard R. Hightower (1764-1820) and Nancy L. Smith Hightower (1770-1849( were early settlers in the Brentwood area. He was a physican and large landowner. Their daughter Sarah Clements "Sally" Hightower married Oliver Bliss Hayes and became a member of the Hayes clan of Nashville - see Rokeby, etc. The land sat to the west of Windy Hill Farm in the original Brentwood settlement. Hightowe
Jay Brothers
Jun 5, 20241 min read
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Queen of the Cumberland/ Chris Smith House/ Smith-Trahern
Spring and McClure Streets Clarksville, TN Circa 1856-59. 2-story red brick Greek Revival and Italianate style The Christopher H. Smith...
Jay Brothers
May 3, 20243 min read
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Highland Hall: Reams Fleming Homeplace
Off Arno Rd. Williamson County, TN Circa 1840-45. Large 4-story brick mansion From lovelyfranklin.com Highland Hall was built between...
Jay Brothers
Apr 29, 20242 min read
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Hawthorn Hill: Doctors and Grand Ole Opry
495 Old Highway 25 Castalian Springs, TN Circa 1806. 2-story brick Federal style Hawthorn Hill was built in 1806 in the Castalian Springs...
Jay Brothers
Apr 5, 20242 min read
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Claiborne Mansion/ Tennessee School for the Blind
Current 108 Hermitage Ave. (former Fillmore St.) Nashville, TN Circa 1866. 4-story mansion The Claiborne Mansion was built on a hill called Reservoir Hill because Nashville's reservoir was nearby. The site is now under part of the I-40/ I-24 interchange to the east of Nashville. Lt. Micajah Green Lewis Claiborne (1808-1876) had a distinguished naval career and then retired in 1849 to become a farmer. He married Lavinia Thompson Cannon Claiborne (1828-1905) in 1848. Claiborne'
Jay Brothers
Feb 28, 20242 min read
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Dr. L. A. Bowman Home: Nashville's African-American Rockefeller
Near 317 Eighth Ave. South Nashville, TN Cirac 1850s Just west of the Korean Veterans Memorial terminus and 8th Ave. South roundabout and...
Jay Brothers
Feb 27, 20242 min read
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Robert Fulton Boyd Home: Important Doctor and Financier
417 Cedar St. (Charlotte Ave.) Nashville, TN Circa 1900. Dr. Robert Fulton Boyd (1855-1912) purchased a large 3 story home on Cedar St. (Charlotte Ave.) near downtown where his family resided from 1900-1903. It was reportedly the largest home purchase of an African-American in Tennessee up to that time. They had moved from N. Cherry in 1893. The site is now near St. Mary's Catholic Church and Nashville WeGo Central station. Dr. Boyd had started a teaching career in Williamson
Jay Brothers
Feb 27, 20241 min read
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Rev. Preston Taylor Home
449 North Cherry St. (Fourth Ave. North) Nashville, TN Circa 1906. 2-story home From 1906 until his death, Rev. Dr. Preston Taylor (1849-1931) lived in a 2 story home on Fourth Ave. North where the Tennessee Department of Human Services is located today. Until 1906, Taylor and his family had lived in a 2 story brick home on their land that became Greenwood Cemetery Rev. Taylor had joined the Union Army as a drum boy and was discharged a free man. Arriving in Nashville, he ope
Jay Brothers
Feb 27, 20242 min read
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Sampson Wesley Keeble home: Trailblazing Politician and Businessman
Broadway & 2nd Ave. South Nashville, TN Circa 1870s. A marker by the Tennessee Historical commission recognizes Keeble's home on Broadway and 2nd Ave. South where Sampson Wesley Keeble (1833-1887) and Harriett (?-1870) resided. After Harriett died, he married Rebecca Cantrell Gordon(?-1849) in 1875. He grew up in Murfreesboro, TN and by 1865, was living in Nashville. In 1871, he became a director of the Tennessee Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association with other prom
Jay Brothers
Feb 26, 20241 min read
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Belle Meade Plantation: Iroquois and Belle Meade
Off Harding Rd. on Leake Ave. (Belle Meade) Nashville, TN Circa orig. 1819/ renovated 1832. 2-story Federal style mansion Belle Meade was...
Jay Brothers
Feb 9, 20246 min read
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John M. Gray Home (Wilmor Wedding Gift)/ Westminster Pres. Church
3900 West End Ave. Nashville, TN Circa 1906. 2-story Georgian Colonial mansion In 1906, Col. B. F. and Sallie M. Wilson gave daughter...
Jay Brothers
Feb 7, 20242 min read
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McCrory-Mayfield House - on the southern order with Williamson Co.
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
Jay Brothers
May 30, 20222 min read
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