Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in McFerrin Park
McFerrin Park is a small, dense pocket just south of Cleveland Park on the Dickerson Pike side of East Nashville, built around the park that gives it its name. It is closer to downtown than most of the north-side pockets and more exposed than any of them to the Dickerson corridor rebuild.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~2 miles
- Character
- Small, dense, and directly in the Dickerson Pike development path
What’s actually there
- McFerrin Park and the McFerrin Park Community Center on Grace Street
- A streetcar-era street grid around Meridian and Grace Streets
- The Bryan-McFerrin-Scales house, a documented local landmark
- Fast access to downtown by way of Ellington Parkway
- Significant recent infill construction
The housing stock
The same streetcar-era pattern as neighboring Cleveland Park, meaning late-1800s and early-1900s cottages and small-scale vernacular housing, with heavy recent infill layered on top. I could not find a primary architectural survey for this pocket specifically, so I am describing the pattern rather than claiming precision I do not have. Zip 37207 showed a median sold price of $426,400 in July 2026 according to RealtyTrac, across the wider zip rather than this pocket alone.
Getting around
About two miles to downtown, six to nine minutes off-peak. Ellington Parkway is close, which is fast but means traffic noise varies noticeably block to block.
Things to do in McFerrin Park
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
McFerrin Park
The neighborhood park the area is named for.
McFerrin Park Community Center
Metro Parks facility at 310 Grace Street.
Audrey
809 Meridian Street. Sean Brock’s Appalachian restaurant, the reason a lot of people first drive into this neighborhood.
Folk
823 Meridian Street, sourdough pizza and natural wine, from the same block.
Redheaded Stranger
305 Arrington Street, tacos.
Junior
907 Dickerson Pike, a cocktail bar and restaurant from chef Philip Krajeck.
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 McFerrin Park
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 McFerrin additions
Four recorded additions from the late 1800s, and one recorded in 2023.
- Wills Sharpe and Crutcher Addition to McFerrin, Beazley Subdivision of McFerrin, and McNish Subdivision of McFerrin all sit in plat book 57, the 1880s and 1890s book.
- F.O. Beazley’s McFerrin Addition was recorded August 31, 2023, which means this ground is still being replatted today.
- About 137 parcels carry a McFerrin legal description, with a median lot around seventeen hundredths of an acre.
- Metro’s dates inside plat book 57 do not run in page order, so I am giving you the instruments and the era rather than days I cannot stand behind.
It is 37206, not 37207
A small thing that breaks searches.
- Of about 137 parcels carrying a McFerrin legal description, 136 are in zip 37206. Exactly one is in 37207.
- McFerrin Park gets grouped with the Dickerson Pike neighborhoods in conversation, and those are 37207.
- If you filter a listing search by 37207 expecting McFerrin Park, you will miss essentially all of it.
- Zoning here is a genuine mix: RS5, R6-A, RM20-A, MUG-A, MUN-A, OR20, industrial restrictive and specific plan districts all appear.
Maxwell Heights conservation overlay
One of two overlays that reach these blocks, and both took effect the same day.
- Ordinance BL2008-181, effective June 2, 2008, covering 65.12 acres.
- Covers properties west of Gallatin Avenue along Bailey Street, West Eastland Avenue, Finn Street, Laurent Street, McFerrin Avenue, Mansfield Street, Maxwell Avenue, North 10th Street and Silverdene Place.
- It is a conservation overlay, so it reviews new construction, additions, demolition and relocation only. Not paint, not roof color, not replacement roofing.
- Zoned CN, RS5, RM20 and specific plan within the district.
Greenwood conservation overlay
The second overlay, adopted the same day as Maxwell Heights and covering different streets.
- Ordinance BL2008-191, effective June 2, 2008, covering 72.4 acres.
- Covers Apex Street, Bailey Street, Chicamauga Avenue, Cleveland Street, Emmett Avenue, Granada Avenue and Court, Laurent Street, Manila Street, McFerrin Avenue, North 9th Street, Petway Avenue, Seymour Avenue and West Eastland Avenue.
- Both overlays name McFerrin Avenue, so a single street runs through two separately adopted districts.
- Which district your parcel is in changes the boundary drawing, not the rules, since both are the same instrument. But it does change who your neighbors answer to.
Flood exposure
Zip level numbers, for scale.
- Zip 37206 recorded about 246 parcels with damaged structures in the 2010 flood, out of roughly 12,268 parcels, about two percent.
- Zip 37207 immediately north recorded about 703.
- Davidson County recorded 11,648 in total.
- These blocks sit up off the river rather than on the bottom land, which is why 37206 came through comparatively well. It still does not replace the FEMA panel on an 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 approved a zone change affecting this part of the city in 2025, 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
Two things. There is no historic overlay here, so no design review and no brake on teardowns, exactly as in Cleveland Park next door. And of all nine East Nashville pockets, McFerrin Park is the most directly exposed to the Dickerson Pike rebuild: both the roughly 1,081-unit Lemuel Road project and the Talbot’s Corner plan, a 61.4-acre mixed-use redevelopment at Dickerson Pike and Trinity Lane stepping from 15 stories at the interstate down to six along Dickerson, phased over roughly 15 years. That is a fifteen-year construction horizon a few blocks away. It could be the making of the neighborhood or a long stretch of living next to it. Either way you should decide that on purpose.
Common questions
What is Talbot’s Corner?
A 61.4-acre mixed-use redevelopment planned at Dickerson Pike and Trinity Lane, stepping from about 15 stories at the interstate down to six along Dickerson Pike, phased over roughly 15 years, and including a conservation greenway to buffer Cumberland River flooding. If you are buying within a few blocks of it, that timeline is part of your purchase whether anyone mentions it or not.
Does McFerrin Park have restaurants?
Not a commercial node of its own worth calling one. The park and community center at 310 Grace Street are the center of the neighborhood, and it leans on Cleveland Park and the Dickerson corridor for everything else. I would rather say that plainly than list somebody else’s street as yours.
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