Glen Oak

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Glen Oak is a historic mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S..

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Hillsboro Village

Hillsboro Village is a neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, located 3 miles southwest of downtown. Hillsboro Village is governed by the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County, because the government of Davidson County is consolidated with that of Nashville. The center of Hillsboro Village is located along Hillsboro Road, a major thoroughfare dating from before the Civil War. It is a former streetcar suburb, and shopping and entertainment district, containing boutiques, the non-profit Belcourt Theatre, and numerous independent restaurants. The heart of Hillsboro Village is home to the Acklen Avenue Post Office, noted for its wall of autographed photos of country music stars. It is also home to local musicians Ben Folds and Mat Kearney. Hillsboro Village is adjacent to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and close to Belmont University, and Music Row. The village is popular with college students. Hillsboro Road also divides the area into two neighborhoods: Hillsboro-West End to the West and Belmont-Hillsboro to the East. Through the 19th century, the neighborhood now known as Hillsboro-Belmont was then part of a single estate containing the Belmont Mansion. Much of the land between Hillsboro Pike and Granny White Pike was farmland during this time. Hillsboro Village began to take shape in 1920, when two groceries and a pharmacy opened alongside the trolley line that ran down Hillsboro Road. Residential houses were primarily built between 1910 and 1940.

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Blair School of Music

Blair School of Music, located in Nashville, Tennessee, provides a conservatory-caliber undergraduate education in music performance, composition, or integrated music studies within the context of a major research university, Vanderbilt University. Blair also provides music lessons, classes and ensembles to over 800 precollege and adult students each semester. Blair is the youngest and smallest of Vanderbilt's ten constituent schools and colleges.

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Belcourt Theatre

The Belcourt Theatre is a nonprofit film center located in Nashville's Hillsboro Village district.

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Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, also known as Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's teaching hospital and entity of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The hospital is affiliated with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt comprises 343 pediatric beds and over 1 million square feet of clinical and administrative space. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Nashville and the greater mid-south region. The hospital also sometimes treats adults who require pediatric care. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt also features an American College of Surgeons level I pediatric trauma center for critically ill pediatric trauma patients. The hospital is attached to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, including Vanderbilt University Hospital. It is affiliated with the nearby Ronald McDonald House of Nashville. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt is routinely ranked among the best children's hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

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Belmont–Hillsboro Historic District

Belmont–Hillsboro Historic District is a historic neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee ion May 1, 1980. The area homes are now protected by a Belmont-Hillsboro Neighborhood Conservation Zone which creates rules for homeowners within the district.

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History

The house was built for English-born Reverend Charles Tomes and his wife Henrietta, the daughter of Bishop James Hervey Otey. Its construction was completed in 1854. Three years later, in 1857, it was purchased by Lizinka Campbell Brown, the daughter of Senator George W. Campbell. In 1862, in the midst of the American Civil War of 1861–1865, the house was occupied by the Union Army. After the war, Brown had married Confederate General Richard S. Ewell in Richmond, Virginia, and they moved to Ewell Farm in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The house was purchased by Edgar Jones, a banker, in 1867. 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.

Architectural significance

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.