Windrow-Jordan House: 403 S. Academy St.

This house was built in 1903 for Delora and James Windrow by her nephew Preston H. Scales. After Mrs. Windrow’s death in 1917, her sister Cora Scales Jordan moved in with her husband, Fred Jordan, and their three children. A graduate of Bradley Academy, daughter Lillian Jordan Hammons taught in the county for more than fifty years and briefly held her nursery school here. Daughter Ola Jordan Hutchings became the first black woman on the Rutherford County Board of Education (1972) and served as church clerk at First Baptist Church for fifty years. Both of these inspiring community leaders belonged to the Criterion Club, an African American women’s group.