Cheekwood

About this audio guide

This guide to Cheekwood in Nashville follows Joel Cheek, the Kentucky-born salesman whose years of relentless blending built the fortune behind the Maxwell House name, and the family money that fortune left behind. It traces how that inheritance became a limestone mansion and gardens, raised by architect Bryant Fleming and stocked with antiques shipped across an ocean. Listen for what one man's stubborn standard for a cup of coffee ended up paying for, generations after he set it.