Morgan House
Grau General Contracting, LLC
                                                        The Glen Leven Mansion
                                     (Information Fact Sheet provided by Land Trust for Tennessee)
  • Glen Leven is a two-story Greek Revival home, located on Franklin Road in Nashville, that was constructed
    with handmade bricks in 1857 by John Thompson.
  • Glen Leven was built on part of an original 647-acre tract claimed by pioneer Thomas Thompson, an early
    Nashville settler and signer of the Cumberland Compact.
  • The home served as a hospital for Union troops during the Battle of Nashville.  With the exception of a two-year
    period in the 1970's, the land has been in the same family since the founding of Nashville.
  • The home and the surrounding 65 acres were willed to The Land Trust for Tennessee in 2006 by the late
    Susan McConnell West.
  • Ms. West's will stipulates that the land be left as "open space", never to be developed or subdivided and that
    the home and adjacent five acres fronting Franklin Road be kept and maintained in "good condition".
  • The Land Trust has developed working agreements with The Hermitage Hotel, which has planted an organic
    garden, and the Middle Tennessee State University Center for Historic Preservation.  MTSU has conducted
    graduate seminars in historic preservation at Glen Leven, and recently compiled an Historic Structures report.  
    The report is viewable at: http://www.landtrusttn.org/projects_glenleven.html
  • A board-appointed task force is actively evaluating possible programs and partnerships related to open space
    conservation, sustainable agriculture and historic preservation, in hopes that the Middle Tennessee
    community will be able to enjoy Glen Leven and its open spaces in perpetuity.
GGC is underway with this project
please click below to see the progress
we have already made!!

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GLEN LEVEN PROGRESS PAGE 06/30/11