Lockeland Springs is the historic heart of 37206: a grid of streets between Gallatin Pike, Shelby Park and Eastland Avenue, laid out around the turn of the last century and built up through the 1920s and 30s. The housing stock is what makes it — Craftsman bungalows, American foursquares, Tudor and Colonial Revival cottages, many with the original porches, hardwoods and millwork, on modest lots with sidewalks and street trees. It is a conservation-zoned neighborhood, which shapes what can be built and torn down and keeps the streetscape intact.
Daily life here is on foot more than anywhere else in East Nashville. Five Points, with its restaurants, bars and coffee, is at the neighborhood’s western edge; Shelby Park and the Shelby Bottoms Greenway are at its southern edge; Eastland Avenue runs along the north. Downtown is about two miles and five to ten minutes by car over the Woodland Street bridge.
What you pay for is the architecture and the walk. Renovated original homes here sit at the top of East Nashville pricing, and because the lots are small, the choices are usually between a well-kept original, a full renovation, and — on the edges — a new build or infill pair. I have represented a buyer here and I read the conservation-zoning rules before you write an offer on anything you plan to change.