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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 in 1939. Samuel Milton Fleming and Ada Josephine Cliffe Fleming lived in the 2-story home on Chickering Rd. just off Percy Warner Park. He was the leader of Third National Bank and renowned regional banker. In 1960, the Flemings purchased a home in Belle Meade from John Manson Oman III (1906-1960) and Merida Maximina Blanco Pagan Oman - Boxwood at Jackson BL and Belle Meade BL


Fleming let his sister Mickie Fleming Farrar (1906 -1983) and Rudolph Samuel Farrar (1904 -1999)live in the home and eventually they purchased the property. Farrar was an investment banker with Wiley Bros. Investments and a director of Capitol Airways, Jesse Stallings ( Haynes Haven) prominent aircraft company. After Mickie passed away, Rudy remarried to Waldi Harnbostel. At some point, the Fleming family regained it, and Toby S. "TJ" Wilt, Jr. and his wife Betsy now reside three. It was on the market in 2019. See also Boxwood.


Sources:

Chickering Road and its People, p. 137, Ridley Wills


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