Colonel Granville Sevier

Colonel Granville Sevier. Sunnyside in Sevier Park. Col. Granville Sevier, the son of Frank and Mary Douglass Sevier and a descendent of John Sevier, the first Governor of Tennessee, purchased the house and 20% acres in 1927. In his military career, Col. Sevier served as the Commander of Fort Shafter at Pearl Harbor and undertook diplomatic work in China and the Philippines. Sevier's mother had grown up in the house and returned to spend her final years in the home she had christened Sunnyside. , Working with architectural firm Marr and Holman, Sevier renovated the house, adding the one-story brick wings, enlarging the basement, and connecting the rear ell to the main house. Sevier also added the small, neoclassical stone building north of the mansion, for use as an office. His heirs sold the property to the city of Nashville after his death in 1944. Col. Sevier is interred in the Benton-Douglass-Sevier Mausoleum at Nashville City Cemetery. , Carriage House Constructed in the late 1800s, the carriage house was like a 19th century garage. Carriages were kept here, while horses stayed in the nearby stable (no longer standing). When Col, Sevier moved in, he renovated the structure to house a new mode of transportation - the automobile. The present-day reconstruction sits in the same footprint and is open for use by park visitors. , Photo captions: , (Left, top): Col. Granville Sevier (1869-1944) -Metro Historical Commission , (Left, bottom): View of the Carriage House in 1974. -Metro Historical Commission , (Right, top): Sunnyside published in the Nashville Banner, 1929. -Nashville Public Library, Special Collections , (Right, bottom): Interior, published in the Nashville Banner, 1929. -Nashville Public Library, Special Collections