Habitat Reconstruct in McFerrin Park

This past Saturday a group of us from District 5 in East Nashville joined some Habitat for Humanity folks to help work on this home, a Reconstruct project in McFerrin Park.
When Jon and I first moved to the area, the house belonged to an older man who'd lived there for many years and whose wife had passed away a number of years before. When he died about about a year ago, the home ended up in the hands of the Metro Housing Authority. When a concerned neighbor heard the house, built at the turn of the century, was on the demo list, she took action. The McFerrin Park Neighborhood Assoc and Councilman Jamie Hollin got involved to try to save this historic home. Habitat stepped in, and now this historic building will soon be rehabbed and the home of a new family.

There is a transom window over the front door and the ceilings are amazing, at least 12-15 feet high in the front rooms! There are 3 original fireplaces in the house, 2 of which I think they will be able to save. The back of the house caught fire last year, and had to be rebuilt.

Team District 5 - we put up insulation, we swept, we caulked and we inhaled 100-year-old dust...it was a blast!