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Belle Meade Apartments
The Belle Meade Apartments is a historic building in Belle Meade, Tennessee near Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville. Location The building is located at 715 Belle Meade Boulevard in Belle Meade, a city near Nashville, Tennessee. It stands opposite the Belle Meade Country Club. History The three-storey building was completed in 1917. It was built with investment from Albert Sidney Britt and Herbert H. Corson, two Nashville businessmen and early promoters of the new community of Belle Meade. Prominent tenants included William Jackson Elliston and James Cowdon Bradford Sr. (the founder of J.C. Bradford & Co.), Charles Davitt and Joseph Toy Howell, Sr. (then the president of the Cumberland Valley National Bank). In 1919, Herbert H. Corson purchased the building. After his death, it was inherited by his descendants. The City of Belle Meade was subsequently Municipal corporation, incorporated to ensure, by the enactment of zoning ordinances, that there would be no further apartment or oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle Meade, Tennessee
Belle Meade is a city in Davidson County, Tennessee. Its total land area is , and its population was 2,912 at the time of the 2010 census. Belle Meade operates independently as a city, complete with its own regulations, a city hall, and police force, but it is also integrated with the Nashville government. Developed in part on the territory of the former Belle Meade plantations, residential areas are suburban with tree-lined streets and wooded areas. The median annual income of Belle Meade residents is $195,208, which exceeds the median annual income in the U.S. by more than three times. The city's history dates back to 1807, when John Harding of Virginia purchased the Dunham's Station log cabin and 250 acres (100 ha) on the Natchez Trace near Richland Creek. He named the property Belle Meade, which is French for "beautiful meadow". Over the next few decades, enslaved African Americans built Harding's mansion, and established a thoroughbred breeding farm and cotton plantation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |