Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in Crieve Hall
Crieve Hall is a large mid-century neighborhood in south Nashville, roughly 1,700 one-story brick ranches across its four main platted sections, on quarter-acre to one-and-a-half-acre lots, built mostly between the mid-1950s and the early 1960s. It takes its name from the estate that stood here: an Ohio steel industrialist bought the 1900 mansion in 1925 and renamed it after his family’s ancestral home in Northern Ireland.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~9 miles
- Character
- Mid-century ranches on large lots, over 2,000 homes
What’s actually there
- Around 1,700 parcels across Crieve Hall Estates, Caldwell Hall, Abbay Hall and Crievewood, predominantly one-story brick ranches with mature trees
- A history marker placed in 2019 on Hogan Road recording the estate the neighborhood is named for
- Ellington Agricultural Center, 259 acres directly adjacent
- Sevenmile Creek and the greenway that begins at William Whitfield Park
- An active neighborhood association registered with Metro, and a small commercial cluster on Trousdale Drive
The housing stock
One of the largest and most consistent mid-century neighborhoods in the county: about 1,700 one-story brick ranches across its four named plats, built from the early 1950s but predominantly from the late 1950s through the early 1960s, on lots that run from a quarter acre in Caldwell Hall to an acre and a half in Crieve Hall Estates. Aberdeen Woods is a 1990s infill pocket, and the southern end carries newer upscale subdivisions with traditional and colonial product. Recent sale prices have been running in the mid six hundreds. Redfin showed $679,000 for July 2026 with a very large year-over-year jump, but that was on four sales, which is nowhere near enough to support the percentage, so I would read the mid-$600,000s and ignore the swing.
Getting around
About nine miles south of downtown, and the neighborhood association describes the drive as under fifteen minutes. Realistically fifteen to twenty off-peak. Nolensville Pike and its transit corridor run east of the neighborhood, so treat that as a nearby amenity rather than something Crieve Hall sits on.
Things to do in Crieve Hall
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Crieve Hall Bagel Co.
The original location at 4825 Trousdale Drive.
Yogi’s Pizzeria & Ice Cream Emporium
Pizza and ice cream at 4825 Trousdale Drive.
William Whitfield Park
Metro park at 5101 Edmondson Pike, and the trailhead for the Seven Mile Creek Greenway.
Nipper’s Corner
The crossroads on Old Hickory Boulevard south of here, anchored by Publix at 15544 Old Hickory Boulevard. Named for Walter Nipper of Nashville Sporting Goods, and used locally as shorthand for this whole corner of the county.
Seven Mile Creek Greenway
Paved greenway beginning in Whitfield Park.
Ellington Agricultural Center
259 acres of open ground and walking paths immediately adjacent to the neighborhood.
Radnor Lake State Natural Area
Walking-only preserve with roughly eight miles of trails, a short drive away.
Checked against each business as of August 18, 2026. Nashville loses restaurants faster than most cities, so if something here has closed since, tell me and I’ll get it corrected.
Subdivisions and named developments in Crieve Hall
Once you are actually looking, you stop searching by city and start searching by subdivision. These are the names that come up, and what is true about each one that will still be true in three years. No prices, no dues, no days on market, because those change and this page would go stale telling you about them.
Crieve Hall Estates
The plat that carries the neighborhood’s name, and the one with the biggest lots in it.
- Recorded in Sections 1 through 7, with Section 1 revised and re-recorded more than once. The plat book position places the platting in the early 1950s, consistent with the 1951 estate auction and the 1955 opening of Crieve Hall Elementary.
- About 523 parcels carry a Crieve Hall legal description. Section 1 Revised alone accounts for 172 of them.
- Lots run roughly four tenths of an acre to nearly one and a half acres, which is two to four times the lot size in the Caldwell Hall plats next door. That gap is the whole reason people argue about which one they are actually buying in.
- Streets include Stillwood Drive, Barrywood Drive, Crieve Road, Montclair Drive, Farrell Parkway, Timberhill Drive and Trousdale Drive.
- No historic overlay, no conservation overlay, and no National Register listing. Nothing reviews a teardown here.
Caldwell Hall
The biggest plat in the area by a wide margin, and a textbook early 1960s tract build-out.
- Fourteen sections recorded between December 1959 and September 1962, so the whole thing went in inside three years.
- About 856 parcels, the largest single named plat in the Crieve Hall area, with lot numbers running into the 800s.
- Lots run roughly two tenths to four tenths of an acre, markedly smaller than Crieve Hall Estates immediately south.
- Streets include Elysian Fields Road, Dunston Drive, Desmond Drive, Langston Drive, Lynn Drive and Danby Drive. Parcels fall mostly in 37211 with some in 37204 and 37220 near Harding Place.
Abbay Hall
The mid-1950s middle ground, roughly half-acre lots between the two larger plats.
- Section 1 recorded November 15, 1955, Section 2 recorded January 2, 1957.
- About 169 parcels, with lots running roughly four and a half tenths to just over half an acre.
- Streets are Abbay Drive, Bellingrath Drive, Coventry Drive, Danby Drive, Elaine Drive, Elysian Fields Road, Inwood Drive and Vicar Drive.
- It shares Danby Drive and Elysian Fields Road with Caldwell Hall, so the two interlock block by block and the address alone will not tell you which plat a house is in.
Crievewood
The southern end, and a name people know from the school and the church rather than from a sign.
- Recorded as Crievewood, a Crievewood Resubdivision and a Crievewood Addition. The plat book position places it in the mid-1950s.
- About 122 parcels, with lots running roughly a third to seven tenths of an acre.
- Streets are Churchill Drive, Manuel Drive, Randall Drive and Marchant Drive, plus shared frontage on Barrywood Drive and Hogan Road.
- Because it shares those two streets with Crieve Hall Estates, the line between Crieve Hall and Crievewood is a plat line and not anything you can see standing on the sidewalk.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
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Served by Metro Nashville Public Schools. Metro assigns a zoned school by address and runs a separate choice and magnet application alongside it, so run the specific address through the district’s own Zone Finder rather than relying on a zone list you find online.
I publish district and school zoning as published fact and nothing more. No ratings, no rankings, no comparisons. School zones are set by the district, assigned by address rather than by subdivision or city name, and they change. Confirm any address with the district itself, and evaluate the schools yourself against what matters to your family.
What a buyer needs to know here
Three things. First, the creek here is Sevenmile Creek, not Mill Creek, and people mix them up constantly. Sevenmile runs along Edmondson Pike and forms the eastern edge of the neighborhood, and Metro runs recurring cleanups on it at Whitfield Park. Pull the FEMA panel on any address near it. Second, teardown risk. Crieve Hall has no historic overlay and no conservation overlay, and it is roughly 1,700 modest 1950s and 1960s houses sitting on lots up to an acre and a half nine miles from downtown. That combination is exactly what draws scrape-and-rebuild activity, and nothing regulates it. If you are buying an original ranch here, know that you may be buying land, and that the house next door may not stay. Third, aircraft noise has become a live local topic: residents have publicly raised it as flight patterns changed, and the neighborhood association maintains an update page on it. The airport’s published noise map dates from 2020 and is being redrawn ahead of a master plan concluding in the first half of 2027, so I would check the specific address against the current map and the update status before waiving contingencies, the same way I would in Donelson.
Common questions
Why are the lots so big in Crieve Hall?
Because of when it was built. This was estate land subdivided in the early 1950s, and the ranch houses that went up through the fifties and sixties were laid out with room between them. Around 1,700 of them across the four named plats, and the lot sizes vary more than people expect: about a quarter acre in Caldwell Hall, up to an acre and a half in Crieve Hall Estates. Nine miles from downtown, that much land under a modest house is unusual now, and it is the whole reason people fight over these blocks.
Is a Crieve Hall ranch a teardown risk?
Honestly, some of them are, and you should decide that on purpose. There is no historic or conservation overlay here, so nothing reviews demolition or new construction. A 1950s ranch on a large lot this close in can be worth more as land than as a house. That affects what you should pay, how hard you can negotiate, and what may go up beside you. Having built and renovated, that is exactly the read I would give you standing on the lot.
What about airplane noise in Crieve Hall?
It has become a live issue locally as flight patterns changed, and the neighborhood association keeps an update page on it. The honest position is the same one I take in Donelson: the airport’s published noise map is from 2020 and is being redrawn ahead of a master plan finishing in the first half of 2027. So I check the specific address against the current map and the update status before contingencies come off, rather than telling you it is fine.
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