East End is the small neighborhood between Woodland Street and Shelby Avenue, from South 10th to South 14th Street, just east of Historic Edgefield, with Fatherland Street — and the small Fatherland District of shops and cafés — as its main street. The homes are the East Nashville originals: Victorian cottages, foursquares and bungalows from roughly 1890 to 1930, with renovations, additions and some infill pairs among them, on sidewalk streets under conservation zoning. South across Shelby Avenue, Shelby Hills fills the blocks from South 10th Street to the edge of Shelby Park, running down toward Davidson Street and the river. Its housing is more mixed — some houses from before 1940, 1950s houses from the post-war plats, and a good deal of new construction since 2010, about a quarter of its buildings — and Metro’s conservation zoning there covers only the Shelby Avenue frontage.
The park is the reason to live here. Shelby Park’s 343 acres hold ball fields, a golf course, a dog park and Sevier Lake, and Shelby Bottoms adds 950 more acres of greenway and nature preserve along the Cumberland, with the Cumberland River pedestrian bridge over to the Stones River Greenway. Shelby Hills backs right onto it at South 20th Street; from East End it is about six blocks east.
Five Points is just north of East End; downtown is two to two and a half miles over the Woodland Street or Korean Veterans Boulevard bridges, roughly 10 minutes by car.