| Savage House | |
| Location: | 167 8th Ave., N., Nashville, Tennessee |
| Coordinates: | 36.1608°N -86.7836°W |
| Architecture: | Italianate |
| Added: | January 11, 1983 |
| Refnum: | 83003029 |
The Savage House is a historic three-storey townhouse in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.[1]
The townhouse was built in the 1850s, prior to the American Civil War, and designed in the Italianate architectural style.[1] In 1859, the house was acquired by Mary E. Claiborne, who turned it into a boarding house until 1881.[1] 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.[1]
It was acquired by Dr. Giles Christopher Savage, an ophthalmologist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, in 1889.[1] 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.[1] Her husband, Dr. Tom Zerfoss, was a physician with the Vanderbilt Student Health Service.[1] Meanwhile, another one of Dr Savage's daughters, Portia Savage Ward, opened an antiques store, which closed down in 1980.[1] 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.[2]