Roy Acuff's House (former)

Roy Acuff, the Grand Ole Opry's King of Country Music, was the Country Music Hall of Fame's first living inductee. This 1935 Inglewood house, log-cabin style in the Tennessean's words, was his home by 1949.

Metro's assessor dates the house to 1935: 1.75 stories, 9 rooms, on 0.85 acres in the Riverwood Subdivision. It had stood 14 years by the time the Acuffs were photographed in it.

The Tennessean's Sunday magazine described it in 1949 as a “log cabin style residence, famed far and wide for its hospitality.” The same volume names Acuff, living here, as 1948's Republican candidate for governor.

Acuff stayed in Inglewood until early 1983, when he moved into a house built for him inside the Opryland park. His later Inglewood home, on the bluff facing Opryland, was a different property.

The earliest print placing Acuff here is a 1949 Nashville Tennessean Magazine spread, a sponsored furniture-store feature photographed in the Acuffs' home. It surfaced only in 2026, when Google Books digitized Vanderbilt's bound volume.

The assessor's card shows no transfer before 1974 and 5 sales since, the last in 2018. It is an occupied private home, visible from the road only, with no marker; do not approach.