The Area
Germantown is Nashville's oldest neighbourhood, a few blocks northwest of downtown and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic district covers eighteen city blocks bounded by Jefferson Street, Third Avenue North, Taylor Street and Eighth Avenue North. German immigrants began building here in the 1840s.
Germantown is the exception among these areas: it is not yet a $2M market. The highest closed sale on record is $2,250,000, on 5th Ave N at $600 per square foot, and the postcode does not register in Davidson County’s $2M-and-above reporting at all. The ceiling is rising though — a 10,024 square foot house on Madison St is asking $7,495,000, and new construction is pushing the top of the market upward each year.
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The district's residences were built across three phases — 1850 to 1874, 1875 to 1899 and 1900 to 1924 — giving the streets an unusually layered nineteenth-century character. Documented styles include Italianate, Stick, Eastlake and Queen Anne.
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On Rosa L. Parks Boulevard beside Bicentennial Mall and the State Museum, the indoor Market House runs daily with independent restaurants and shops. The open-air farm sheds trade Friday through Sunday, later into the afternoon from March to October. Two hours of on-site parking are free for customers.
The 137,000-square-foot museum opened in October 2018 in the Bill Haslam Center on Bicentennial Mall, within sight of the State Capitol. Admission is free, and the permanent galleries run chronologically from natural history and First Peoples through the Civil War and Reconstruction to the present. Five further galleries host rotating exhibitions, with a dedicated children's gallery.
The ninety-one-million-dollar ballpark opened in April 2015 on the site of Sulphur Dell, a minor league park used from 1885 to 1963, and is home to the Nashville Sounds. It seats ten thousand with room for another 1,500 on the outfield berm. Its signature is a guitar-shaped scoreboard 142 feet wide carrying 4,200 square feet of LED display.
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Philip Krajeck opened Rolf and Daughters in a restored industrial building in Germantown in 2012, and it became one of the most influential openings of its era — Bon Appétit ranked it third on its list of the best new restaurants in America. Handmade pastas, wood-fired cooking, house-made breads and regional-farm vegetables, with an award-winning wine programme.
Tandy Wilson opened City House in Germantown in 2007 and won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southeast in 2016; the Italian-leaning, farm-driven kitchen also made the New York Times's 2024 list of the twenty-two best pizzerias in the country. In 2025 Wilson promoted a member of the team since 2013 to executive chef while keeping the sourcing relationships intact. Dinner nightly.
Julia Sullivan's Germantown room is a barroom and oyster bar built around seasonal, ingredient-driven cooking, with a marble bar anchoring the space. It appeared on both GQ's and Bon Appétit's best-new-restaurant lists in 2018 and was a James Beard semifinalist that year. Dinner Tuesday to Sunday, with weekend brunch.
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Founded in 1957 as a downtown gathering place for business professionals — a private members' club rather than a golf club. It moved to SoBro on Second Avenue South in 2023, into three floors and more than eighteen thousand square feet. A member floor and dining room, a lounge and speakeasy-style bar, private event spaces and coworking.
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Getting Around
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Private Access
Homes in Germantown often trade before they are ever listed. Ask to be told first.
