Nashville neighbors are talking: Renovated Frist family home looks like the White House!

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Looking Presidential at Home in Nashville, Whether He Runs or Not
By THEO EMERY
Published: November 4, 2006


(Josh Anderson for The New York Times)
The Georgian Revival-style house in the Whitland neighborhood, nearby residents agree, has taken on a distinct White House look.

NASHVILLE, Nov. 3 — In the wealthy Whitland neighborhood here, political signs dot the manicured lawns, but neighbors typically maintain a polite distance, keeping their affairs private behind towering magnolia trees, hedgerows and stone walls.

Still, residents and passing motorists cannot help but peer behind the high green fence that screens renovations under way at 703 Bowling Avenue.

It is not just the sheer size of the project, which has turned the Georgian Revival house into one of the neighborhood’s largest. Nor is it simply the fact that it is the home of the retiring majority leader of the United States Senate, Bill Frist. After all, Senator Lamar Alexander and former Vice President Al Gore both live nearby.

What has neighbors talking is the fact that the family home of Senator Frist, who is often talked about as a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, has taken on a resemblance to the dwelling at another high-profile address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.

The similarity is so striking that George S. Buchanan, 63, a Republican-leaning neighbor whose home is separated from Mr. Frist’s 4.3-acre property by a street, said, “I live right next door to the White House.”...“When I have friends come into town, I say, ‘Oh, well now, I’ll take you by the Nashville White House,’ ” said Jean B. Butler, 78, a retired federal employee and a staunch Democrat who has lived in the neighborhood for about 60 years....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/04/washington/04mansion.html?hp&ex=1162702800&en=10da351b507ba245&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[acmavm]

1. No shortage of arrogance in the Kat Killer Frist family, is there?

[Riddler]

2. Enjoy it Frist, you asshole.

It's the only White House you'll ever live in!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Looks more like a federal courthouse, where he should be going on trial.

with the rest of his criminal cronies.

[Olney Blue]

4. Closest he's gonna get to a WH.

[Drum]

5. Nashville has a Parthenon replica too...

[Missy M]

7. What on earth is that building used for?

[Drum]

10. Dunno.

I only saw it on a visit there....

:shrug:

[lonehalf]

13. The Parthenon was part of Nashville's Centennial celebration.

You can read about it here:

http://www.nashville.org/parthenon/

Wikipedia has a much better article.

Go there and search for "Nashville Parthenon"

[Vorta]

9. That's awful

I can't believe someone would spend all that money on such a building and put no money (or thought) into the site. What is it used for? And what is with all these green and gray utility boxes popping up everywhere? Do we simply no longer care about aesthetics?

[Clark2008]

14. Hmmm... commentary on a state landmark from someone

from the state who gave us trailer parks, bugs the size of small dogs and plastic pink flamingos.

:eyes:

You know - I LIKE the Parthenon - and the grounds surrounding it, which are used for concerts and rallies and picnics. It's a NICE park, but you wouldn't know because you OBVIOUSLY have never been there.

[Vorta]

16. I didn't say the building was awful

I said that they might have chosen a better elevation and done some landscaping.

[Clark2008]

20. There is landscaping - it's in a public park, Centennial Park

That picture shows the building - alone.

The park is beautiful:

http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11322/photo_album/nashville_downtown.jpg

That's the other view. The Parthanon is on the other end.

More views:

[Uncle Joe]

21. Nice pictures Clark,

but that first picture looks like a shot of the capitol from a view of the Bi-centennial Mall.

[lonehalf]

15. Some people here like to complain about everything n/t

[NV Whino]

17. Those green and gray utility boxes

appear to be for underground utilities. Would you rather see overhead wires and poles?

[Lars39]

19. It's a museum to the Centennial, an art gallery,

and home to Athena. It wasnt' meant to be a permanent building, iirc.

[Warpy]

6. That thing was built to impress peasants, nothing more

It's an architectural nightmare with the grandiosity of that entry belonging on a much larger building with at least 4 stories.

A bank or a funeral parlor will be the only logical occupants once Frist is worm food.

He's borrowed the worst parts of the White House and the worst parts of the Parthenon and welded them to a yuppie monstrosity that struggles to match the ego of its occupant.

This alone should encourage people to vote against that pompous jerk.

[Double T]

8. The TN WH simulator...........

another corrupt A=hole rethug that believes HE can become president and carry on the rethug neocon culture of deceit and corruption in Washington.

[1932]

11. It looks like the White House had sex with a plantation mansion and this came out.

[sunnystarr]

12. I wonder how many people know

that at the time Frist decided to run for the Senate he had never in his life registered to vote?? His house is a sham just like he is!

[Infinite Hope]

18. Of course...It's the closest he'll get to the W.H. n/t

[Claire Beth]

22. because....

it is the closest Frist will ever get to living in the White House.