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THE EVOLUTION OF “LONG VIEW” AT NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—A HOUSE BUILT AROUND A HOUSE 
—WHAT THE HALLWAY MEANS TO A SOUTHERN HOME— 1 THE ATMOSPHERE OF ITS GARDENS 
Elise Ward M orris 
Photographs by M. W. Wiles 
T HE South is essentially a land of homes; not ‘“places.” 
Possibly the inborn love of sentiment, so characteristic of 
the native Southerner, is what lies at the root of this home-loving, 
home-making instinct. Or it may be an inheritance from Anglo- 
Saxon forefathers who fought for the privilege of building their 
own homes on their own lands. Anyhow, there is a feeling in 
the South about one’s own home that cannot be conjured up 
when contemplating one’s neighbor’s house, even though the 
garage of the house next door may have cost more than the 
"home.” 
To own a country or suburban house in the South and not 
name it would be as odd as permitting the newest baby to grow 
up with the same lack of individuality. “Longview,” the home of 
James E. Caldwell, of Nashville, Tennessee, was christened more 
than thirty years ago. Then the present house was in its embryo 
stage of a five-roof cottage. The evolution of the present "Long¬ 
view” from its original cottage state has been gradual, but each 
improvement bore a permanency. Whether it meant planting 
trees on the front lawn, once part of the old field on which the 
battle of Nashville was fought, or adding rooms or porches, it 
meant one step towards realizing a certain ideal. Each altera¬ 
tion has been made after careful planning and loving thought, 
to meet the need of a growing family, and yet to keep the house 
in proportion, arid, though several additions have been made, the 
original house has been preserved, forming the heart of the 
home. The affectionate interest and needs out of which each 
addition was born have gone to make of the house not a con¬ 
fusion of rooms and hallways tacked together, but a home of ex¬ 
cellent and artistic proportions, betraying a singular sense of in¬ 
dividuality. 
"Longview” stands on a gradual rise above the road, double¬ 
winged, modified Colonial in architecture, with a winding road 
that leads from a rose-grown, stone-pillowed gateway. Directly 
before the house the lawn is unbroken with trees or shrubs, but 
to the immediate sides, and at a short distance between the house 
and the road, flowering shrubbery and great shade trees stand in 
generous growth. The stretch of open, trimmed lawn gives to 
the house a suggestion of an English home, and brings into 
clearer relief the stately dignity of its lines. The driveway is 
bordered by trailing roses and honeysuckle. To one side of the 
driveway an arbor bears, from early spring until fall, a joyous 
burden of crimson ramblers and wisteria. 
Wide porches, with Corinthian columns, stone floors and 
flower boxes, run across the front of the house and around the 
left wing to the rear. Before the windows of the right wing are 
small iron balconies of an early style of architecture. The side 
porch is well shaded, its generous width permitting the possi¬ 
bility of a summer living-room. All summer the flower boxes are 
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