4753 Post Road
Fourteen acres, in motion
Original details, faithfully kept
A labor of love
“ It was a labor of love to care for all of the old growth trees on the property. ”
“ My absolute favorite space in the house is the sunroom. The views of the creek and the property as the sun sets are absolutely magical as you look at St. George’s bell tower from across the creek. ”
In the owner’s words · on the four-year restoration of 4753 Post Road“ This home and property grab your attention immediately and never let go. ”
A map of the estate
A rendered plan of the fourteen acres, showing how the residence, the drive, the historic stone bridge, the pool, the gardens, and the great lawn orient to the roads and to Richland Creek.
The Residence
The c.1932 French-inspired estate atop the hill.
The Drive
The approach from Post Road up to the house.
Stone Bridge
The balustraded carriage bridge over the creek.
Pool & Pool House
A 20’ x 40’ gunite pool with raised spa and a 1,064 SF pool house.
The Gardens
Brick garden walls and the restored fountain.
The Great Lawn
Open parkland rolling down toward the water.
Fire-Pit Terrace
A stone terrace at the creek’s edge.
Richland Creek
The creek-front boundary and bottomland.
The land that became Hillwood
Long before subdivisions, this ground was part of the great west-Nashville estates that lined Richland Creek. The McGavock and Harding families held vast acreage here, land that bordered the Harding family's Belle Meade Plantation, founded in 1807, where in its earliest years John Harding boarded horses for his neighbor Andrew Jackson.
The estate took the name Clifflawn for the cliff at the front of the property. In 1911, Horace Greeley Hill, founder of the H.G. Hill grocery chain and, later, H.G. Hill Realty, rebuilt Clifflawn and settled his family on the surrounding hundreds of acres. Over the following decades that land became the foundation of the entire Hillwood community. The residence offered here was built by Mr. Hill for his sister beginning in 1928, adjacent to Clifflawn, and was subdivided from the historic grounds within the last decade.
The H.G. Hill estate, from above
These survey photographs, taken in the late 1930s when H.G. Hill’s grounds were still intact, show the full extent of the property before the surrounding land became Hillwood.
Archival aerial survey photographs · H.G. Hill Property · ca. late 1930s
Press & film
Nfocus Magazine
Room to Grow
Read the feature“ [One of] our favorite part[s] has been trying to re-create the grounds based on a picture from the early ‘50s that Edward Jackson of the Hill family let us borrow at the beginning of the process. ”
Shawn Lehman-Grimes, in Nfocus Magazine
