Webb Pierce's House 'Greystones' (former)

A 1924 stone house on 8 acres where Franklin Pike meets Curtiswood Lane in Nashville's Oak Hill. Country singer Webb Pierce lived here and dug the guitar-shaped pool that drew the tour buses.

Pierce dug the guitar-shaped pool for $30,000 to $40,000, by press accounts, and sold tickets to see it. Nearly 3,000 visitors a week came by tour bus, and he signed albums poolside.

Pierce built a small bus-parking area for the crowds. Oak Hill neighbors, led by singer Ray Stevens, sued to stop the buses and won, and the tours ended in the mid-1970s.

Pierce answered by building a second guitar-shaped pool, 81 feet long, on Music Row in 1977. The Spence Manor hotel acquired that one in 1979, and it still exists.

The blog History Through Homes names the house “Greystones,” built for phosphate engineer Granberry Jackson and Margaret Early Jackson. Its account has Webb and Audrey Pierce buying it about 1952 from Anna Russell Weaver.

The house has sold 3 times since 1989 and is a private home today, set far back on its parcel. Only part of it shows from the road, and there is nowhere to stop.