Owl's Hill estate with a Cheek link tops last month's most expensive home sales

An architecturally interesting home in a beautiful setting and with a link to one of Nashville's noble families tops the list of the Nashville area's most expensive homes this month.

January's list also includes a rare trip to Hickman County, where a restoration company CEO is one of two South Floridians to buy a Top 10 house this month. A doctor famous for his Christmas light displays waited until after the New Year to move, and where one anesthesiologist moved out, another moved right in.

As always, what follows are the Top 10 home sales in Nashville and area counties in January, ranked by sales price:

1. 565 Beech Creek Road South, Brentwood, 37027

Buyers: John and Lori Ray

Sale price: $3.75 million

Seller: Saundra R. Steele

Seller's agents: Laura Stroud and Lisa Fernandez-Wilson, French King Fine Properties

Buyers' agents: Tim King and Richard B. French, French King Fine Properties

Sitting on 22 acres in the middle of the Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary, this home was designed by Bob Street and built in 1957 for Walter and Hulda Cheek Sharpe after the couple who, among other things, spearheaded the effort to create the Nashville Symphony donated Cheekwood to the city of Nashville. (Mrs. Sharpe was, yes, the only daughter of those Cheeks.)

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Owl's Hill estate with a Cheek link tops last month's most expensive home sales