Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in Inglewood
This is where the Victorian and bungalow story stops and the mid-century one starts. Inglewood is the large, leafy northern half of East Nashville, running west to I-65 and north to Briley Parkway and taking in South Inglewood, Dalewood and Riverwood.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~4 to 6 miles
- Character
- Mid-century ranches on larger lots, with the Riverside Village node
What’s actually there
- A large area taking in Inglewood, South Inglewood, Dalewood and Riverwood, running west to I-65 and north to Briley Parkway
- Riverside Village, the walkable commercial node at Riverside Drive and McGavock Pike
- Predominantly 1940s through 1960s ranches and post-war cottages
- Cornelia Fort Airpark and the northern trailhead of Shelby Bottoms Greenway
- Larger lots and more mature tree cover than the pockets closer in
- Gallatin Pike frontage on the western side, one of the ten All-Access transit corridors named in the program voters approved in November 2024
- WeGo route 56 running the Gallatin Pike corridor from downtown north to Rivergate
The housing stock
This is the mid-century half of East Nashville: 1940s through 1960s ranches and post-war cottages, brick-dominant, on lots that are larger than anything closer in, with newer infill along the Gallatin corridor. No historic overlay applies. Zip 37216 showed a median sold price of $553,100 in July 2026 according to RealtyTrac, up 8.25 percent on the previous August, which was the strongest year-over-year move of the three East Nashville zips.
Getting around
Four to six miles to downtown depending how far north you go, roughly ten to fifteen minutes off-peak. South Inglewood is much closer in than Riverwood, so where in Inglewood matters more than most places.
Things to do in Inglewood
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Village Pub & Beer Garden
Neighborhood pub at 1308 McGavock Pike in Riverside Village.
Mitchell Delicatessen
Sandwich counter in Riverside Village.
Castrillo’s Pizza of Inglewood
Neighborhood pizzeria in Riverside Village.
Cornelia Fort Airpark
Former airfield at 1199 Shadow Lane, now open space and the northern trailhead of Shelby Bottoms Greenway, with Metro Parks naturalist programming.
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 Inglewood
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 Inglewood plats, 1909 to 1948
Six recorded additions across forty years, and their dates hold up cleanly, which is rare.
- Inglewood Place recorded June 11, 1909. Youngs Inglewood Annex April 29, 1929. Inglewood Golf Club Estates October 5, 1933 with a second plat June 19, 1935. Inglewood Terrace June 13, 1939. Inglewood Heights December 16, 1948.
- All six pass the plat book test, meaning book and page numbers rise with the dates. Much of Metro’s older plat data does not, so these are unusually trustworthy.
- Inglewood Place alone runs about 431 parcels, all in 37216, with a median lot around a quarter acre.
- A quarter acre is more than double the median in Highland Heights a few miles south. That is the clearest measure of how different this side of the pike is.
Inglewood Place conservation overlay
The overlay, and it reviews less than most people assume.
- Ordinance BL2016-107, effective February 26, 2016, covering about 164.9 acres.
- Covers Golf Street, Greenfield, Howard, Inglewood Circle North and South, Jakes, Katherine, Kennedy, Kirkland, McChesney, Oxford, Riverside Drive, Shelton and Stratford Avenues.
- A conservation overlay reviews new construction, additions, demolition and relocation. It explicitly does not review paint color, roof color or replacement roofing materials.
- So it brakes a teardown and a bad addition. It does not tell you what color to paint your house.
Eastdale conservation overlay
A separate, later overlay on the other side of Gallatin Pike.
- Ordinance BL2017-667, effective May 19, 2017, covering about 72.44 acres.
- Covers Eastdale Avenue, East Riverwood Drive, Eastdale Place, Riverwood Drive and Plymouth Avenue, east of Gallatin Pike, zoned RS10 and RS20.
- Same instrument as Inglewood Place, so the same review scope: new construction, additions, demolition, relocation.
- Two overlays a year apart on either side of the pike means two houses a few blocks from each other came under review at different times and under different boundaries.
Inglewood Place Historic District, National Register
The best place in Nashville to see the difference between the three designations, because all three are here.
- Listed on the National Register on March 22, 2016, reference number 16000117.
- That is twenty-five days after the conservation overlay took effect, and the two cover similar but separately drawn street lists.
- The National Register listing restricts nothing a private owner does. The conservation overlay does. They are different instruments with different boundaries and different consequences.
- A house can be in one, both, or neither, and the listing will not tell you which. I check it on the parcel.
Brush Hill
A single road and its one court, running north from the Riverwood plats up to Gallatin Pike, with 122 parcels on it and three separate recorded subdivisions underneath. The southern half is inside a National Register district and the northern half is not, and the line between them is visible in the deed language.
- 122 parcels across Brush Hill Road and Brush Hill Court. Every one is zoned RS20 and every one sits in Council District 7. That uniformity is unusual for a road this long.
- Three recorded plats underneath it. Riverwood, surveyed 1924 and resubdivided 1929, holds the 3600 through 4006 blocks. McGaughey’s Haysboro and McGaughey’s 2nd Haysboro hold roughly 4007 north to the pike. Penick Property Subdivision is two parcels, 3604 and 3606.
- Brush Hill Court exists because Lot 28 of Riverwood was cut up in 1929. Six parcels still carry a legal description reading resubdivision of Lot 28 Riverwood, and the National Register nomination says the same thing in words. Two independent records, same year, same lot.
- Brush Hill Road and Brush Hill Court are named listed streets in the Jackson Park Historic District, listed on the National Register July 26, 2016, reference 16000483. About 255 acres, 384 contributing and 52 non-contributing resources, listed under Criteria A and C for community planning and for architecture.
- The district’s Brush Hill addresses stop at 4006. From about 4007 north you are in McGaughey’s Haysboro and outside the listing entirely. The parcel legal descriptions change at the same address, so the deed and the nomination agree on where the line falls.
- A National Register listing restricts nothing a private owner does to their own house. The instrument that does review new construction, additions, demolition and relocation is the Eastdale conservation overlay, and its street list runs Eastdale Avenue, East Riverwood Drive, Eastdale Place, Riverwood Drive and Plymouth Avenue. Brush Hill is not on it. So a house here can carry the National Register address without the design review, while a neighbor one street over on Riverwood Drive carries both. I check that on the parcel rather than the listing.
- A tenth of a mile west, Tanglewood is a full Metro Historic Preservation District under ordinance BL2009-397, adopted 2009. That is the strictest of the three instruments in Nashville. Three designations with three different consequences sit within a few hundred yards of each other here. The word historic on its own tells you nothing.
- RS20 carries a 20,000 square foot minimum, about 0.46 of an acre. A good many lots here are under it, some as small as 0.28, because they were platted decades before the zoning. Most of the road runs half an acre to an acre and a half.
- Not all detached. Five duplexes at 3628, 4301, 4304, 4414 and 4424. A church on 5.78 acres at 3705 with its parsonage at 3801. Several vacant residential parcels, including 8.55 acres at 4450 and a 4.42 acre tract at the Gallatin Pike end.
- Metro’s May 2010 damage assessment lists four Brush Hill addresses: 4303, 4307, 4313 and 4321, all single family, all in one block. Zip 37216 recorded about 341 parcels with damaged structures in total. Four out of 341, and they fall in the McGaughey half rather than the Riverwood half nearest the river. That is the opposite of what most people assume about this road. Flood zone is a per-address question and I pull it per address.
- The oldest houses are at the southern end: an English Cottage Revival at 3700 dated about 1930 and a Frontier Revival at 3614 dated about 1935. Across the district the construction dates run roughly 1930 to 1965.
- The Haysboro in those plat names is Haysborough, the village incorporated here in 1799 and named for Colonel Robert Hays, Andrew Jackson’s brother-in-law, who officiated the Jacksons’ 1794 remarriage. Robert Love deeded the tract to Andrew J. McGaughey in 1905, and McGaughey began cutting it into lots in 1920. The Metro Historical Commission marker for it stands on Tanglewood Drive, a tenth of a mile west of this road.
- Two things I could not establish, so I am not going to imply them. No house, farm or estate called Brush Hill appears in the National Register, the Tennessee Historical Commission files or the marker program, so where the road got its name is genuinely unknown to me. And Riverwood the mansion, at 1833 Welcome Lane, is a different property about a mile southwest: built around 1799 as Tammany Wood, renamed by William Frierson Cooper in 1859, listed on the National Register in 1977, and surrounded today by a 1960s subdivision called Burchwood Gardens. The Riverwood plat under this road was cut from the Williams farm. Whether the 1924 developers borrowed the estate’s name is not recorded anywhere I can find.
Flood exposure
The river is the eastern edge, so here is the number.
- Zip 37216 recorded about 341 parcels with damaged structures in the 2010 flood.
- For comparison, 37206 recorded about 246, 37207 about 703, and the small East Bank zip 37213 about 55.
- Davidson County recorded 11,648 in total, so these four east side zips together were about eleven and a half percent of it.
- Inglewood is large and its exposure is concentrated near the river rather than spread evenly. A zip level number is a starting point, not an answer for a specific address.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
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Served by Metro Nashville Public Schools, assigned by address, with a separate choice and magnet application alongside zoned assignment. Inglewood covers a lot of ground and zoned assignment shifts across it, so use the district’s Zone Finder on the specific address.
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
Inglewood is the value play of the East Nashville pockets and the numbers say so: 37216 sat at $553,100 in July 2026 against $644,500 in 37206 for May 2026, while appreciating faster year over year. The trade-off is that there is no historic overlay, so nothing prevents tall-and-skinny infill going up next door, and most of that gets built under a Horizontal Property Regime rather than as a conventional subdivision. If you are buying anything attached or newly built here, understand what an HPR is and how it differs from a condo or a townhome before you sign, because it changes what you own and what you are responsible for. Separately, the eastern edge near Cornelia Fort and Shelby Bottoms is floodplain-sensitive and needs a parcel-level check. One more thing changed in December 2025: Metro adopted two zoning bills, one allowing detached accessory dwelling units in parts of the Urban Services District without a special overlay, and one creating two new districts that permit townhomes, courtyard apartments, triplexes and quadplexes where they were previously prohibited. The second one is not automatic, it requires a rezoning, but on a large area with no historic overlay it is worth knowing that the rules on the lot next door are more permissive than they were.
Common questions
Why is Inglewood cheaper than the rest of East Nashville?
Mostly distance and housing age. It runs four to six miles out rather than one to two, and the stock is mid-century ranch rather than Victorian or bungalow. Zip 37216 showed $553,100 in July 2026 against $644,500 in 37206 for May 2026, per RealtyTrac, while appreciating faster year over year. For a lot of buyers the larger lot and the shorter price is the better trade.
What is an HPR and why does it matter in Inglewood?
A Horizontal Property Regime is the legal structure most of Nashville’s tall-and-skinny infill is built under. It is not a condo and it is not a conventional subdivision, and it changes what you actually own, what you share, and what you are on the hook to maintain. With no historic overlay here, this construction can appear next door or be the thing you are buying. I will walk you through the difference before you sign anything.
Is Gallatin Pike going to change Inglewood?
It is one of the ten All-Access corridors in the transit program voters approved in November 2024, which means higher frequency service and potentially dedicated lanes over time, and WeGo route 56 already runs it from downtown to Rivergate. Metro also loosened residential zoning countywide in December 2025 on accessory units and small multifamily. None of that has a completion date I would plan a purchase around. Buy the house on the house, and treat the corridor as upside rather than as a promise.
What is Riverside Village?
The walkable commercial corner at Riverside Drive and McGavock Pike. Village Pub & Beer Garden at 1308 McGavock, Mitchell Delicatessen and Castrillo’s Pizza are all there, and Cornelia Fort Airpark with the Shelby Bottoms Greenway trailhead is close by at 1199 Shadow Lane.
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