Savage House
National Register of Historic Places

Savage House

Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
Listed
January 11, 1983
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
83003029

About this property

The Savage House is a historic three-storey townhouse in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The townhouse was built in the 1850s, prior to the American Civil War, and designed in the Italianate architectural style. In 1859, the house was acquired by Mary E. Claiborne, who turned it into a boarding house until 1881. Three years later, in 1884, it was acquired by Julius Sax, who rented it to the Standard Club, a Jewish private members' club, in 1891. It was acquired by Dr. Giles Christopher Savage, an ophthalmologist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, in 1889. Savage used it as a practice, as did his daughter, Kate Savage Zerfoss, a Tulane University Medical School graduate who also taught at the Vanderbilt University Medical School. Her husband, Dr. Tom Zerfoss, was a physician with the Vanderbilt Student Health Service. Meanwhile, another one of Dr Savage's daughters, Portia Savage Ward, opened an antiques store, which closed down in 1980. The building stands next to the Frost Building, another historic building listed on the NRHP. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 11, 1983.

Location

167 8th Ave., N.
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
36.16091, -86.78365

Categories

HEALTH/MEDICINEARCHITECTURE
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

Description adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Questions about this property

When was Savage House listed on the National Register?

Savage House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1983.

What type of historic resource is Savage House?

Savage House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Savage House?

The period of significance for Savage House is recorded as the industrial era, specifically around 1917.

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