Glen Oak is a historic mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S..
Glen Oak | |
Location | 2012 25th Avenue, South, Nashville, Tennessee |
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Coordinates | 36°7′57″N 86°48′25″W / 36.13250°N 86.80694°W |
Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
Built | 1854 |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 83004235[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 17, 1983 |
The house was built for English-born Reverend Charles Tomes and his wife Henrietta, the daughter of Bishop James Hervey Otey.[2] Its construction was completed in 1854.[2] Three years later, in 1857, it was purchased by Lizinka Campbell Brown, the daughter of Senator George W. Campbell.[2]
In 1862, in the midst of the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the house was occupied by the Union Army.[2] After the war, Brown had married Confederate General Richard S. Ewell in Richmond, Virginia, and they moved to Ewell Farm in Spring Hill, Tennessee.[2]
The house was purchased by Edgar Jones, a banker, in 1867.[2] With his neighbor, George Reid Calhoun, the brother of silversmith William Henry Calhoun, Jones decided to subdivide his land in 1911, and it became known as Hillsboro Village.[3]
The house was designed in the Gothic Revival architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 17, 1983.[4]
Later, George R. bought a farm near what is now 21st Avenue, S., and when the house burned in 1911, he and a neighbor, Edgar Jones (who lived in the handsome antebellum home still standing at 2012 25th Ave., S.,) divided their adjoining farms into town lots and called the area Hillsboro Village.