The Wrenn’s Nest, also known as Handley’s Point of View and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was the home of Colonel and Mrs. George Leonidus Wrenn. A former Confederate Army officer and plantation owner from Gunnison, Mississippi, Colonel Wrenn and his wife Nora were seeking a retreat from the hot Mississippi summers and the yellow fever epidemics common at that time in the South.

Monteagle was a favorite summer destination for Southerners in the late 19th Century. Hundreds flocked to the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly, a collection of some 200 Victorian-era cottages. One of these cottages was the first summer home of Colonel and Mrs. Wrenn.

In 1906 the Wrenns began searching for a site for their next summer home. The site they settled on was a 30-acre tract a mile from the Assembly grounds that commanded a spectacular view of Pelham Valley and a glimpse of the old mountain road that Federal troops had used in the Civil War. Wrenn purchased the 30-acre tract from Dr. Lessie Sayles in September 1906. Designed by local contractors Fred Blackman and Tom Tucker, the residence was completed in 1908 and served as their summer home until Colonel Wrenn’s death in 1912.

Today, Wrenn's Nest is a private home. Please respect the property owners' rights.