Jerry Simon Posted August 26, 2012 Report Posted August 26, 2012 I'm in Leipers Fork, TN, a couple years ago - just outside Nashville, but truly in the boonies. Town is a couple hundred feet long; Scott P. will know about it. Anyway, was in a hoitey-toitey art store and saw this painting by Lassie McDonald Crowder, a local artist. I was spellbound. I couldn't stop looking at it. I could actually picture myself walking around it. Spellbound, and I had to have it. (It was more than I could afford, but heck, life is short.) Afterwards, when back home, I wrote the artist and told her how I've never really been *touched* by such ever in the past. She called me a week or so later, and I had a wonderful conversation with a southern, soft-spoken lady. She told me where the house was; even farther back in the boonies, and I said next time I visited my daughter in TN, I'd try to find the house. She gave me directions as best she could, and said it's so far off the main road I might have trouble finding it. Lo & behold, one eeire foggy morning a few months later, my wife & I found the house. It was barely standing, falling apart inside, but one of the neatest houses I've ever seen. No idea on age; could only guess. But it's old. Picts of the outside, the inside, and the painting hanging in my office are below. Hope ya'll feel the way I do. Click to Enlarge 57.83?KB Click to Enlarge 51.76?KB Click to Enlarge 44.72?KB
Marc Posted August 26, 2012 Report Posted August 26, 2012 I feel sad that it's falling apart though its design is appealing. The craftsman who built it deserves a better tribute than this. Marc
Jerry Simon Posted August 26, 2012 Author Report Posted August 26, 2012 Who's the artist? Lassie McDonald Crowder
John Dirks Jr Posted August 27, 2012 Report Posted August 27, 2012 Interesting. The old tree trunk depicted in the photo is also in the painting. Any idea how old the painting is?
Scottpat Posted August 27, 2012 Report Posted August 27, 2012 Pretty old home... It sad to see these old homes falling apart and being forgotten. Leipers Fork TN is an eclectric community that is full of artist, songwriters and musicians if you are ever in the Nashville area it is well worth the time for a visit.
kurt Posted August 27, 2012 Report Posted August 27, 2012 Is that a terne roof? What would a place like that sell for nowadays? Honestly, it doesn't look that bad. Do people strip out and renovate places like that?
Jerry Simon Posted August 27, 2012 Author Report Posted August 27, 2012 Is that a terne roof? What would a place like that sell for nowadays? Honestly, it doesn't look that bad. Do people strip out and renovate places like that? It's a metal roof; not sure if it's terne metal. The house is bad; some more picts below. I couldn't go upstairs or in the basement; stairs were mostly gone. Shotgun blasts all over. . . Click to Enlarge 46.29 KB Click to Enlarge 57.43 KB Click to Enlarge 63.12 KB Click to Enlarge 45.24 KB Click to Enlarge 58.27 KB
Jerry Simon Posted August 27, 2012 Author Report Posted August 27, 2012 I see a project in Jerry's future. Ya know, the wife and I are gonna retire down there in the next ten years or so. You got me thinking. . . It could be "The New Adventures of Alf & Ralph Monroe".
Scottpat Posted August 27, 2012 Report Posted August 27, 2012 I would say it was built around 1880 to 1900 based on the design. Most of the middle TN land back at that time was still ravaged from the war of northern aggression. The homes that made it through the war were made from mostly brick or stone with very little wood.
kurt Posted August 27, 2012 Report Posted August 27, 2012 The house is bad; some more picts below. I couldn't go upstairs or in the basement; stairs were mostly gone. Shotgun blasts all over. . . Yeah....ok. Not so good. Starting with bare dirt would be better. Nashville is nice; it's a hip little city.
John Kogel Posted August 27, 2012 Report Posted August 27, 2012 Painting - very nice. Actual house - not so nice. But it is pretty cool that you found the place. Keep the pics on a CD with the painting. You never know, it could add to the value someday.
Jerry Simon Posted September 10, 2012 Author Report Posted September 10, 2012 Hey Scott P. If yer interested, the house is in Nolensville, right across the elementary school on Rocky Fork Road. There's a little dirt road opposite the SE corner of the school property that leads back to the house. I used google earth, and you can see the really cool & elaborate roof features.
Jerry Simon Posted September 26, 2012 Author Report Posted September 26, 2012 Update. . . Just came back from Nashville 'cause I had to walk my middle daugther down the aisle this past weekend. (Talk about surreal.) Went by the house on a tad of off-time. House is GONE. The new near-by school probably comes into play. Sigh. . .
John Kogel Posted September 26, 2012 Report Posted September 26, 2012 Jerry, congratulations on the wedding of your daughter. Lucky you took those pictures last time you were down there. The demolition crew did you a big favor, BTW.
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