Sales to settle estates of late property owners were once a relative rarity in Headline Homes, the heirs either willing to keep their stately homes or unable to sell them. In the past few months, however, they've been more common on our list. This month includes one such sale — at No. 7.
But that's not the only home with Old Nashville lineage. A Predators owner sold his house, which before he owned it belonged to one of Nashville's oldest families. Also included this month is a century-old farmhouse (and its acreage) which looks destined for subdivision, and two entries from Gallatin, including a purchase by an All-Star pitcher.
As always, what follows are the top 10 single-family home sales in Nashville and surrounding counties in November, ranked by price:
1. 4410 Truxton Place, Belle Meade, 37205
Buyer: MYY Revocable Trust, L. Glenn Worley, trustee
Sale price: $3.65 million
Sellers: D. Mark and Martha D. Simmons
Sellers' agent: Sissy Rogers, Pilkerton Realtors
Buyer's agent: Steve G. Fridrich, Fridrich & Clark Realty
The denizens of the stratosphere of Nashville society do so love when they get to say that their home is a Keeble.
Famed architect Edwin Keeble designed dozens of homes in our finest enclaves (and also some of our more, shall we say, affordable ones, for that matter), and to say, "It's a Keeble," about a seven-figure home is like putting a pretty corsage on an Armani tuxedo.
Whoever is behind MYY Revocable Trust can say their home is the rare Double Keeble — designed by Edwin for his nephew Sydney, a philanthropist and longtime Life & Casualty executive.
Built in 1967, the French Regency home has a 20-foot ceiling in its grand entrance (and 10-foot ceilings everywhere else), six bedrooms, seven baths, four fireplaces and "lots of French doors."
2. 4406 Chickering Lane, Belle Meade, 37215
Buyers: Randall J. and Davonna Wachtler
Sale price: $2.8 million
Seller: Chickering Lane Trust, Al Hagaman, trustee
Seller's agent: Steve G. Fridrich, Fridrich & Clark Realty
Buyers' agent: Richard B. French, French King Fine Properties
Sitting on more than 11 acres in Belle Meade, this 15-room estate is the new home of music industry vet Randy Wachtler, who was recently named president and CEO of Warner Music Group's production music arm, Warner/Chappell. He is the founder of 615 Music.
3. 9281 Wardley Park Lane, Brentwood, 37027
Buyers: Craig W. and Stacey R. Lindsley
Sale price: $2.325 million
Sellers: Narsimba Rao Paluri and Anuradha Hari
Sellers' agents: Tony Marble and Shelley R. Rhodes, RE/MAX Fine Homes
Buyers' agent: Tony Marble, RE/MAX Fine Homes
Once listed in the duPont Registry of luxury homes, the "crown jewel of Annandale" has two laundry rooms and an indoor and an outdoor kitchen. The 9,100-square-foot colonial's new owner, Craig Lindsley, is a leading pharmacological researcher at Vanderbilt.
4. 1617 Old Hillsboro Road, Franklin, 37069
Buyer: Grove Park Land Co.
Sale price: $2.1 million
Seller: Lynch Revocable Living Trust, Charles P. Lynch, trustee
Seller's agent: Betty K. Brothers, Worth Properties
Buyer's agent: Kenneth Green, Bob Parks Realty
On 40 rural Williamson County acres, this 113-year-old farmhouse sits on a spread including a "red barn used for many country music videos." The main house is relatively small by Headline Homes standards — just 2,522 square feet — but the owner hints at a future purpose. The Grove Park Land Co. recently applied for a water pollution control permit with the Department of Environment and Conservation that calls for a "20 lot subdivision."
5. 555 Saint Blaise Road, Gallatin, 37066
Buyer: James H. Conn
Sale price: $2 million
Sellers: L.A. and Helen S. Green
Sellers' agents: Gwen Dowland, RE/MAX Choice and Amanda Wachtler, Pilkerton Realtors
Buyer's agent: Lynnette Jamison, Crye-Leike Realtors
A Sumner County development heavy-hitter, the oxymoronically named L.A. Green sells his 25-acre gated lakeside Gallatin estate, which includes "curved walls," "gold leaf rice paper," "St. Laurent marble," "gas lanterns," "window medallions" and all the typical niceties — marble countertops, travertine flooring, fountain and pool.
6. 1500 Fleetwood Drive, Franklin, 37064
Buyers: unknown
Sale price: $1,909,756
Sellers: Andrew and Amy Sale
Sellers' agents: Lisa Cahalan and PJ Littleton, Westhaven Realty
Buyer's agent: PJ Littleton, Westhaven Realty
This oddly priced 8,200-square-foot home was custom built for the Sales. It has six bedrooms and six full bathrooms. The buyer, despite the home apparently closing in early November, is unknown.
7. 114 Bonaventura Place, Belle Meade, 37205
Buyer: Nancy Bass Cooke
Sale price: $1.58 million
Seller: Charlotte H. Summers Revocable Trust
Seller's and buyer's agents: Janet T. Jones and Mary Sue Dietrich, Worth Properties
The home of the late Charlotte Summers, the socialite and arts benefactor who died in 2012, and her late husband, business leader Thomas, who died in 2000, sells to Nancy Bass Cooke, eponymously of Cooke & Grace Properties. Custom built by Ramsey-Daugherty (your modern-day Edwin Keeble), the 14-room, 7,000-square-foot home has an "exquisite foyer and staircase."
8. 5335 Stanford Drive, Forest Hills, 37215
Buyer: Jason Wayne Owen
Sale price: $1.5 million
Sellers: Thomas G. and Constance Cigarran
Sellers' agent: Steve G. Fridrich, Fridrich & Clark Realty
Buyer's agent: Mary Beth Thomas, Fridrich & Clark Realty
Nashville Predators chairman and Healthways co-founder Tom Cigarran sells his secluded Forest Hills home — on two wooded acres. The home was built in 1938 for famed Vanderbilt neurosurgeon Cobb Pilcher, who founded Vandy's Division of Neurologic Surgery after graduating from med school at 22 and was the scion of one of Nashville's oldest families.
9. 200 Emily Court, Franklin, 37064Buyers: John S. and Paula S. Scianna
Sale price: $1.45 million
Sellers: Joseph D. and Pamela D. Storey
Sellers' agent: Melissa R. and Andy Clough, Keller Williams Realty
Buyers' agent: Tammie White, Benchmark Realty
This Franklin brownstone, a four-story Victorian with a private courtyard and Viking fixtures, is the new home of graphic designer John Scianna. Joe Storey is a long-time fixture in the Nashville health care community.
10. 1644 Jacobs Drive, Gallatin, 37066
Buyers: Zachary T. and Kristin Duke
Sale price: $1.449 million
Seller: Paul D. Cook
Seller's agent: Gwen Dowland, RE/MAX Choice
Buyers' agent: Jonny Lee, RE/MAX Elite
The rare second entry from Sumner County, this one purchased by former Major League All-Star pitcher Zach Duke, who was, in the mid-2000s, the ace of a moribund staff in Pittsburgh. His new waterfront home has covered verandas and a listing that is very enthusiastic about its in-law suite, pushing it in all-caps.
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