Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in East End
East End is the quiet residential wedge between Historic Edgefield and Lockeland Springs, running roughly from South 10th Street to South 14th Street and from Woodland Street down to Shelby Avenue. It was platted in 1876 as the East Edgefield addition.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~1.5 miles
- Design review
- Neighborhood Conservation overlay, the lighter tier
What’s actually there
- Streets running from South 10th to South 14th, between Woodland Street and Shelby Avenue
- Part of the East Nashville Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1982
- Victorian-era housing platted from 1876 onward
- Walking distance to both Five Points and the Woodland Street Bridge into downtown
- East End United Methodist Church, a contributing building in the historic district
The housing stock
Platted in 1876 as the East Edgefield addition and built out as a stable inner-city neighborhood, so the stock is Victorian-era with the craftsmanship of that period, sitting inside the same National Register district as Lockeland Springs. Zip 37206 showed a median sold price of $644,500 in May 2026 according to RealtyTrac, across the wider zip rather than this pocket alone.
Getting around
About a mile and a half to downtown, six to nine minutes off-peak, and walkable to both Five Points and the river crossing.
Things to do in East End
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
The Basement East
Music venue at 917 Woodland Street, on East End’s northern edge.
East End United Methodist Church
A contributing building in the National Register district.
Five Points Pizza
1012 Woodland Street, at the Five Points intersection.
The 5 Spot
1006 Forrest Avenue. Live music and dancing, and the East Nashville room people name first.
Bongo Java East
107 South 11th Street, coffee and board games.
Fanny’s House of Music
1101 Holly Street, new and vintage instruments.
Woodland Wine Merchant
1001 Woodland Street.
I Dream of Weenie
1021 Russell Street, hot dogs out of a converted Airstream.
Checked against each business as of August 14, 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 East End
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.
The original additions
Recorded between 1874 and 1890, and these are the names on your deed.
- East Edgefield Addition recorded January 4, 1874, the oldest of them. Shields East End recorded October 18, 1889.
- The J.B. Hancock East End Addition sits at the same plat book page as a record dated April 26, 1890, with the facing page dated the day before. Metro’s stored date for it reads 1990, exactly one hundred years off, so treat it as 1890.
- About 215 parcels in 37206 carry a Payne legal description, from the Payne additions to Edgefield. About 23 carry an East Edgefield description.
- Resubdivisions are still being recorded on this ground, including lots in 2003, 2007 and 2014, so the plat is not a closed book.
East End has no district of its own
Worth saying plainly, because listings imply otherwise.
- There is no ordinance, no overlay and no National Register district named East End. I checked Metro’s complete overlay list and the state’s National Register inventory.
- East End is the second half of the combined Lockeland Springs and East End conservation overlay. The rules that apply to it are that overlay’s rules.
- That overlay reviews new construction, additions, demolition and relocation only. It does not review repairs, materials, paint, signage or anything inside the house.
- Which matters, because the Edgefield historic overlay a few blocks west does review all of that. Two neighborhoods, two different sets of rules, and the line between them is recorded.
The conservation overlay, and what it actually reviews
Four ordinances, built up over eleven years.
- BL2003-1369, effective May 24, 2003, covering about 48 acres from South 10th to South 14th, Woodland Street to Shelby Avenue.
- BL2004-477, effective January 22, 2005, about 13 acres between Lillian and Shelby between South 18th and South 20th.
- BL2014-737, effective May 23, 2014, about 26 acres south of Eastland Avenue. BL2014-812, effective July 25, 2014, about 40 acres north of Shelby Avenue including Boscobel Street.
- So which ordinance covers your block decides when your ground came under review. A house on South 19th came in eleven years before a house on Boscobel Street did.
East Nashville Historic District, National Register
Covers much of East End, and changes nothing about what you may build.
- Listed April 15, 1982, reference number 82003960.
- The nomination covers the major part of twenty-two rectangular blocks, bounded by Eastland Avenue, South 16th and South 14th Streets, Fatherland Street, and South 11th Street and Gallatin Road.
- It records that subdivision began in 1875 with the blocks south of Woodland Street and moved northeast over the following decades.
- Honorary designation. The conservation overlay is the thing with teeth.
Flood exposure
The number, so you can weigh it rather than guess at it.
- The 2010 flood damaged structures on about 5 parcels in the East End area.
- Zip 37206 overall recorded about 246 damaged parcels out of roughly 12,268, about two percent.
- The low-lying East Bank zip next door, 37213, recorded about 55 damaged out of about 130 parcels, roughly forty-two percent.
- The historic neighborhoods here sit up on the bluff. That is real, and it is still not a substitute for the FEMA panel on the specific address.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
Look up an address with the district →
Served by Metro Nashville Public Schools, assigned by address, with a separate choice and magnet application alongside zoned assignment. Metro is actively redrawing zones nearby, so confirm the specific address in the district’s Zone Finder.
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
East End sits under the same Neighborhood Conservation overlay as Lockeland Springs, which reviews new construction, additions, demolition and relocation but not routine exterior repair. The 2003 ordinance that extended it added roughly 48 acres, so overlay coverage genuinely varies lot by lot here and you need to verify the parcel rather than the street. I will also be straight with you about what East End is not: it has no commercial node of its own. What people call East End dining is Five Points, a few blocks north. That is a short walk, not a drawback, but you should know which neighborhood the restaurants are actually in before someone sells them to you as yours.
Common questions
Where exactly is East End?
Between South 10th and South 14th Streets, from Woodland Street down to Shelby Avenue. Metro drew those boundaries in the 2003 ordinance that extended the conservation overlay at the neighborhood association’s request, so they are a matter of public record rather than opinion.
Does East End have its own restaurants?
Not really, and I would rather tell you that than pad a list. The Basement East is on the northern edge at 917 Woodland. Everything else people associate with the area is Five Points, a few blocks north, or the Main Street corridor. It is an easy walk, but it belongs to a different pocket.
What are the rules on renovating in East End?
The Conservation overlay reviews new construction, additions, demolition and relocation. Routine exterior repair is not reviewed. The important step is confirming the specific parcel is inside the overlay, because the 2003 extension added about 48 acres and coverage varies lot by lot.
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