Caleb Isbester House - Chattanooga, TN Full description at the National Register of Historic Places nominating form: npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/82003975 Highlights: Built 1896. Queen Anne style with Chateauesque influence. Foundation made from local rusticated limestone. Two story wraparound porch. Features mock turrets, fish-scale shingles Caleb Isbester, born in Scotland, came to US at a young age, local industrial leader who formed Chattanooga Foundry and Pipe Works. Died two years after home built. Daughter Ginny married businessman William Crabtree, the two lived here. He became mayor 1907. In the 1930s, sold to UT Chattanooga, became dormitory for school athletes. In the early 1980s, was owned by Bill Chapin, who ran, and was a descendent of the founders of Rock City. It is again owned by UTC as the Alumni House.
Murfreesboro East Main: 511 E. Main - Collier-Crichlow House This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District in Murfreesboro, TN. Here is a description of this house from the brochure entitled "Explore Historic Murfreesboro - A Walking Tour" 511 East Main Street The Second Empire style is characterized by the Mansard roof, central tower, two-story bay windows, and metal cresting along the roof line. Built to reflect a combination of wealth and fashion, the Collier-Crichlow House was designed by Nashville architect W. C. Smith and built by local carpenter H. C. Jackson. The first owner, Ingram Collier, was a successful businessman and the mayor of Murfreesboro in 1872 and 1873. The Collier-Crichlow House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places independently in addition to being part of the historic district.
Shelburne-Smithson House aka the Nathaniel Smithson House Peytonsville, TN The house was built in 1832 in a Greek Revival style with the front porch added in 1870 by Nathaniel Smithson. The house was then sold to the McGee family in 1922. Today the home is on the National Register of Historic Places ...and I'm not use to seeing a bunch of cows in front of old mansions.
Tennessee Governor's Mansion According to Wikipedia: The Tennessee Governor's Mansion, also known as the Tennessee Residence, in Nashville, TN, is the official residence of the Governor of Tennessee and his family. It is a three-story Georgian-style mansion that was built as a private home for William Ridley Wills and his family in 1929. It is on a 10-acre tract about 5 miles south of the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville. The state purchased the house in 1949 and it has served as the home of Tennessee's governors since then. The first renovation since the residence was purchased by the state was completed during the spring of 2010. The project was initiated in 2005 by Andrea Conte, the wife of then-Governor Phil Bredesen. For years, maintenance had been deferred by governors wary of alienating voters. Prior to the renovation, the slate roof leaked, ceiling and wall plaster had many cracks, lead-based paint was peeling, and the residence was still heated and cooled by the original hot and cold water radiator system. Two other major problems were the relative lack of accessibility for disabled persons, and inadequate formal dining/gathering space. The formal dining room seated only 22 people, but state dinners often had more than 50 guests. In those situations, tents were erected on the front lawn along with port-o-let toilets for the guests of state to use. To address these problems, the Memphis-based architectural firm Archimania was selected to design what was to be named Conservation Hall, which was completed during the spring of 2010. It is a 14,000-square-foot mainly underground dining and meeting room capable of seating 160 people. The center of Conservation Hall is a glass-walled oval atrium that opens to the sky. It is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified, the first governor's residence to be given the LEED designation. The Tennessee Governor's Mansion is the only official executive residence in the United States to have an underground gathering space. The house is open to the public for tours by advance reservation. ***Brent's note: At the time of it's building, the Conservation Hall, (a.k.a. the Underground Party Bunker) turned into one of the most controversial events during the term of Gov. Bredesen. Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/unique-tn-houses/ These 10 Unique Houses In Tennessee Will Make You Look Twice… And Want To Go In
Sunnyside Mansion, Nashville Located in Sevier Park (don't go there after dark) in Nashville, TN, this old mansion from the 1850s is on the National Registry of Historic Places. This was originally the home of Mary Benton, the widow of Jesse Benton who left Nashville after a duel with Andrew Jackson. The home stood between army lines in the Civil War in the Battle of Nashville. Next, it was owned by prominent dentist L.G. Noel for 45 years, and then Col. Granville Sevier, who added the wings in the 1920s. Now, this holds the offices for the Metro Board of Parks and Recreation. If you have seen a picture of this mansion over 1 year old, it was painted white. Historical marker: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/...
Alvin C. York's Home Now part of the Alvin. C. York State Historic Site in Pall Mall, TN, and located on US 127.
The Flying Saucer House of Signal Mountain, TN probably a UFO enthusiast, Curtis King built this house in 1972. It's located along a hairpin turn along highway US127 heading up to Signal Mountain. The staircase which comes below was originally motorized and would retract up into the house, but it no longer works. (according to legend, one couple who owned the house had an argument, the wife retracted the stairs up and then moved the car where the stairs would lower, thus trapping the husband inside!) When constructed, many futuristic details were added, such as rounded rooms and furniture. It had an entertainment room and full bar. The 2000 sqft house originally cost $250,000. In the nearly 50 years since construction, it has changed owners several times, and at one point was available as a vacation rental.
The steps to Loretta Lynn's Yard & Mansion Hurricane Mills, TN is essentially all Loretta Lynn's personal tourist attraction now. For a modest fee, one can take the tour of the mansion, of, like me, for free, one can take a picture from the curb.
Andrew Johnson's Early Home Andrew Johnson and his family lived in this house from some time in the 1830's until 1851. Johnson was born and raised in Greeneville, TN. Before entering politics, he was a tailor, and his tailor shop is across the street from this house, although preserved inside of a brick building now. While living here, his life changed drastically becoming a local alderman and then mayor of Greeneville, continuing on to state represenative and state senator. He was elected U.S. Representative 5 times but moved from this house during that time. The house that President Johnson moved into in 1851 is just a few blocks away. Today, this home is part of the Andrew Johnson Visitors Complex, which is part of the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
US Army Corps of Engineers Lockmaster House at Lock Two Park Until the Army Corps of Engineers built Old Hickory Dam on the Cumberland River, there was an active lock at Pennington Bend, and this house was occupied by the Lockmaster. After the Dam was built, this house was vacated, the lock equipment removed, and the area was turned into a "Lock Two Park." This park is inviting, as opposed to the Lock One Park I had posted earlier. Update: This building was included on Historic Nashville's 2010 Nashville Nine list of endangered properties. Hello to anyone who found this photo here at the Tennesseean: www.tennessean.com/story/money/2015/05/18/nashville-seeks... Nashville seeks protection for 14 historical sites (Last photo in the slideshow) or here: www.gekiyaku.com/archives/21132046.html
Glenmore Mansion Located in Jefferson City, TN (In Jefferson County, the town used to be called Mossy Creek) the Glenmore Mansion was built in 1869 to be the home of John Roper Branner. John Branner died before the house was completed, and for a few years his brother Joseph ran the Branner Institute for Young Ladies here. In 1882, the home was sold to the Jarnagin family. Glenmore was the name of Milton Jarnagin's first son, who died as a baby. In 1970, the mansion was aquired by a local historical preservation group. The mansion is located along the old Andrew Johnson Highway. The fine example of Victorian Architecture in a Second Empire style was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. www.glenmoremansion.org/
Gran Dale - Nashville This historic house just off of Murfreesboro Rd was built in 1859 and its most notable feature is the central Portico with two large columns. Now vacant, it once held the offices for Nashboro Village Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/patriotic-tn/ 10 Reasons Why Tennessee Is The Most Patriotic State In The Country
Creaky old house in Belleville, TN (Between Shelbyville and Fayetteville) on US Highway 231 Hello to anyone who found this here: lisanneharris.com/2014/10/31/more-sadly-utterly-abandoned... More Sadly, Utterly Abandoned Houses Or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/maybe-creepy-tn/ 10 Creepy Houses In Tennessee That Could Be Haunted Or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/autumn-in-tennessee/ 10 Things That Everyone In Tennessee Does During The Fall Season
The Forehand House in Melrose This house was constructed in the late 60's but was built around the cabin of former TN Governor Aaron Brown (Known as "Melrose") To learn more, Read the caption to this photo.
Domestic's Quarters - in Melrose The Historic Marker here reads: DOMESTIC'S QUARTERS Usually occupied by family servant. Sometimes used as summer cook-house and Nursery. Fired upon by Federal Troops from Passing Train, bullet narrowly missing head of sleeping child. This is one of two log cabins relocated into Woodlawn Cemetery. To read more of the story Read the caption of this photo.
The Carper Homestead - in Melrose The marker at this log cabin reads: CARPER HOMESTEAD Known to be one of the oldest houses remaining from the early American Era, originally located on Cane Ridge Road at Antioch, Tennessee. The Materials were removed piece-by-piece and rebuilt exactly as it stood when occupied by the Carper Generations. Donated to Woodlawn Memorial Park for Historic Preservation by the children of William Washington and Susie Black Carper. Dedicated 1969. On the other side of this cabin is two small mills which lead into a small pond with three large fish and a few ducks. To read more about the story, Read the caption to this picture
Historic Jim Bales Cabin located in the Smokey Mountains along the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. Hello to anyone who found this here: www.goodyblog.com/playing_house/2009/03/dads-weekend.html
White House south portico side This is using a full zoom as this is as close as I could get with extra security and construction
White House north side - Pennsylvania Ave as photographed thru the bars of the fence in such a way to not startle any of the oodles of security present
Cool house in Washington, D.C. (Logan Circle) I don't think this house is particularly important, I just thought it was neat. On the corner of Rhode Island and U.S. 1
Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace It can get cold during the winter months in Kentucky. Fortunately, Thomas Lincoln had the forethought to build a huge concrete temple around the cabin to keep the inside warm. Also, Camera flash's haven't been allowed for 183 years. Then, there's the other saying: A young Abe Lincoln built the log cabin he was born in with his own two hands! I also linked to this photo here: see-rock-city.blogspot.com/2006/12/how-barn-changes-in-20... This is my 2nd photo to reach 2000 views, mostly because its quick to show up when you search google image search for Abraham Lincoln.
Replica of Lincoln's Boyhood Home Located on the Knob Creek Farm, which is a few minutes north of the Lincoln Birthplace on U.S 31E. He lived here from ages 2 to 7. This one is not encased in a large concrete temple. I also linked to this photo Here: see-rock-city.blogspot.com/2006/12/how-barn-changes-in-20...
Toll Booth at Maker's Mark Distillery apparently it was really used as a toll booth a long time ago.. The sign on the side lists the rates: (c for cents) Buggy .......15c Surrey...... 25c Slide....... 15c Horse & Rider.. 6c Person on foot. 2c Cows...... 4c Sheep...... 2c Pigs........ 2c Persons going to church...Free Located at the entrance of Maker's Mark Distillery in Loretto, KY
Old House Triune, Tn along US 31A/41A
Roswell: 1,168 Miles from Franklin, TN I'm not good at determining the age of homes. Is this house from the 1890's, or is it more of 1920's? This home is about a half mile from historic downtown Franklin, Tn On Hwy 96, the main road to Murfreesboro. Oh, there's also an Inflatable green alien in a purple hoodie in a UFO. Alien Closeup
John Bridgman's House - Pikeville, TN I have no idea about the signficance of this place, other than the fact it's old and it's on the National Register of Historic Places. Googling this, John Bridgman may have named Pikeville. This house is probably more than 150 yrs. old.
Minty green house in Manchester, TN sign out front says it's now a law firm. This picture was used on my blog here: brentkmoore.blogspot.com/2008/03/green-stuff-for-st-patri... Update: This is known as the Wilkinson-Keele House / Nicoll & Nicoll Law office. It was built in 1888 and is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Mitchell House - Lebanon, TN Home of one of the founders of the Castle Heights Military Academy, where this house is located. (along Main St. or U.S. 70 a few blocks west of the town square) It is now the headquarters of Cracker Barrel. Built in 1906.
Some random cool building I saw in Baltimore on N Charles St.
Neat house outside of Cookeville, Tn along Nashville Highway west of Cookeville
Old Light Blue house - Rutledge Hill one of the remaining homes from Historic South Nashville. 30 Middleton St.
40 Middleton St. - Historic South Nashville On rutledge hill. This home was built in the 1880's and at one time was a beauty salon. This webpage has more info on this house and has pictures from the inside
Idler's Retreat - Smyrna, TN Also known as the Dillon-Tucker-Cheney House house. One of three listings on the National Register of Historic Places in my new hometown. Building - #04000475 Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Event Architect, builder, or engineer: Dillon, Joseph R. Architectural Style: Italianate, Greek Revival Area of Significance: Architecture, Social History Period of Significance: 1850-1874, 1875-1899, 1900-1924, 1925-1949, 1950-1974
The Corrugated Metal House Except for the blue section in the middle, the whole front of the house is made of corrugated metal. In my humble opinion, it doesn't look so good.
Primo C. Bartolini Stone House at 511 5th Ave One stranger homes I've seen in the Nashville area. One of the few remaining in this area, just a few blocks south Country Music Hall Fame. it was built in 1931. I suppose it could be a duplex with two front doors. In the bottom right corner is the end of a stone concrete fence that runs in front of the house and it has a small rusty metal gate in the center. Update: This is the historic Primo C. Bartolini House. It has been owned by that family since it was constructed in 1931. The house was built on the foundation of the antebellum home of Captain William Driver. Historic Nashville Inc. has reported this house as threatened as developers want to replace this SoBro house with a new development. For more info: www.facebook.com/historicnashvilleinc/posts/1015327345972... www.tennessean.com/story/money/2015/05/01/sobro-apartment...
James K. Polk Ancestral Home Located near the heart of Columbia, TN on 301 West 7th St. (U.S. 412). This house was built ca. 1816 by Samuel Polk, father of President Polk. President Polk lived here from 1818 until 1824 and is the only residence of his (other than the White House) still in existence. www.jameskpolk.com/new/polkhome.asp This is a National Historic Landmark. Also is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This picture is a closeup of the sign to the right of the front door. NRHP Reference#: 66000728 Designated as NHL: July 4, 1961 Federal Style architecture.
28 Middleton St. Historic South Nashville Rutledge Hill area
Old Historic House - Granville, Tn
Law office of Gov. Albert H Roberts Livingston, TN Used to be located on Main St. just a couple of blocks from the town square, so when I went walking around, I couldn't find it. It has been relocated to where he used to have a house a few blocks away. It's now on the property of Livingston Academy. Gov. Roberts was TN Governor from 1919-21 Update: the Tennessee Preservation Trust added this to the 2014 Ten in Tennessee: a yearly list of threatened historic sites. www.tennesseepreservationtrust.org/ten-in-tn/2014-ten-in-...
Oakland's Plantation House Murfreesboro, TN www.oaklandsmuseum.org/ Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/unique-tn-houses/ These 10 Unique Houses In Tennessee Will Make You Look Twice… And Want To Go In or here: suburbanturmoil.com/things-to-do-with-kids-in-nashville-2... 75 Things to Do with Kids in Nashville This Summer: 2017 Edition or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/murfreesboro-living-tn/ How This Small Tennessee Town Became One Of The Best Places To Live In The U.S.
Oakland's Plantation House Murfreesboro, TN www.oaklandsmuseum.org/
Oakland's Mansion front porch www.oaklandsmuseum.org/
Slave quarters with dogtrot This former slave quarters is now located at the Sam Davis home in Smyrna, but when slaves lived here, it was at the Rattle & Snap plantation home in Maury County.
Sam Davis boyhood home part of the Rutherford County traveler's guide to log architecture. Sam Davis was born in the log home in 1842. This home was located off Almaville Pike but was moved the the "Sam Davis Home" historic site in Smyrna. Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tn-cabins/ These Awesome Cabins In Tennessee Will Make Your Stay In Nature Unforgettable
Sam Davis Home version 2 home to the Boyhood Hero of the Civil War. built 1820 and expanded 1850. Smyrna, TN www.samdavishome.org/history.html
Sam Davis Home 1 home to the Boyhood Hero of the Civil War. built 1820 and expanded 1850. Smyrna, TN www.samdavishome.org/history.html
Trousdale Place - Gallatin, TN info taken from TrousdalePlace.org: Trousdale Place is a handsome old two-story brick house serenely shaded by large trees and has been proudly placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located two city blocks west of the Gallatin, Tennessee Public Square. This historic home was built circa 1813 by John H. Bowen, a local attorney and member of Congress. Bowen died in 1822, and the house was later acquired by Governor William Trousdale. The city of Gallatin was developed on part of the original North Carolina land grant #1 awarded to James Trousdale, Governor Trousdale’s father, for his service in the Revolutionary War. In 1812, lots were sold for the construction of the jail, courthouse and other Gallatin city buildings. In 1899, Annie Berry Trousdale, daughter-in-law of William Trousdale, deeded the home to the Clark Chapter #13 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to honor all veterans and in particular, veterans of the Confederacy. Then the mansion became known as The Trousdale Place
Dixona Home of U.S. Revolution Army Captain Tilman Dixon in the late 18th century. The log cabin portion of the center of the historic house also served as the Smith County courthouse starting in Nov. 1799 before the county seat moved to Carthage. If you look at the picture at the large size, you can see the logs in the center portion of the house. The small town was known as Dixon Springs, TN. Located on highway TN25.
Valentine Square This home built in 1899 and located in Winchester, TN is on the Nat'l Reg. of Historic Places
207 Main St. (Queen Anne Cottage) - Wartrace, TN Comes with a matching hydrant! As of 2021, this home is a solid Dark Blue, trimmed in white. This home is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Wartrace Historic District. Here is the description. ca. 1880. Queen Anne Cottage. 1 1/2 story, frame, weatherboard, L-plan, gable composition roof, pedimented entry with cut-outs, Palladian serliana, decorative wooden vergeboards, porch supported by Doric columns, spindle balustrade, cornice with deptil, two interior brick chimneys.
206 Main St. (Wraparound Portico with Cupola) - Wartrace, TN This home is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Wartrace Historic District. Here is the description: ca. 1906. Queen Anne/Classical Revival. 2 story, frame, weatherboard, irregular plan, irregular tin shingle roof, large dominating wraparound portico supported by monumental Ionic columns, curved bay end west, round cupola atop porch, bellshaped dormer, stone foundation, shingled gable end and dormers, crockets on roof.
Rose Hill One of the old houses on Rutledge Hill, located on the corner of Rutledge & Lea. It was originally the home of Henry Middleton Rutledge and Septima Sexta Middleton Rutledge. They were 1st cousins and children of 2 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Edward Rutledge and Arthur Middleton. The original portion of the home was built in 1814 but much of it burned during the civil war. The front of the home, shown here, is a newer addition. Another owner of the house was Edmund Baxter, brother of railroad magnate Jere Baxter. Now, the house is used by the law firm of Blackburn & McCune.
James Buchanan Walker house On the National Register of Historic Places, Centerville, TN. Built in 1903 in a Classical Revival style.
Old decaying house Very old house seen in rural Rutherford county, TN. Most houses I've seen like this are close to 200 years old, but I would like any info I could get on it. Located on Shacklett Rd.
LV Woodlee House Altamont, TN - faces the old town square. Listed on the Nat'l register of Historic Places. Built in 1885 and is now a Bed & Breakfast.
Austin Hewitt House The most noticable feature of this Greek Revival mansion is the monumental pedimented portico. The central original part of the building was built in the 1830s as a female academy. Later, it was turned into a private residence and the portico was added. When Austin Hewitt died in 1921, he willed his estate to become a ladies retirement home, and was then enlarged. Listed on the National Register of historic places.
The Manor aka Moffit Manor aka HB Northcutt House Altamont, TN, built in 1885, and is on highway TN56. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is now run as a Bed & Breakfast.
The Mount Carmel Duplex I don't think this is a duplex, but the name of the area. Located along US431 south of Franklin in Williamson County.
Liberty Hill - Smyrna, TN This home is also known as the Johns-King House is in Smyrna, TN and not far from Old Jefferson. In 2009, it was Identified by the Murfreesboro Post as one of the top 10 endangered historic sites in Rutherford County. It was built in 1805 as a log house, by the Weakley family after receiving a land grant for the area. Then in 1840, Thomas and Unity Smith Johns purchased the house and made many improvements. The building was used as a Confederate hospital and headquarters during the Battle of Stones River. In 1863, farmers Benjamin and Mary King bought the home after their previous home in LaVergne was destroyed by Union troops and their descendants occupied the home for many years. Here's a description by the Heritage Center of Rutherford County: The story of Liberty Hill, also known as the Johns-King House, began when river economies were booming. In the early 1800s, the town of Jefferson was established in Rutherford County as a port city on the Stones River, serving as the first county seat before it moved to Murfreesboro. Ca. 1805, Liberty Hill was built by Jefferson’s founder, Robert Weakley, who used enslaved labor for the house’s construction. Long before Liberty Hill was built, the land originally belonged to the Chickamauga band of Cherokee until 1785, when it was ceded and partitioned in land grants given to Revolutionary War veterans. In November of 1838, 4,000 Cherokee people passed through Jefferson and by Liberty Hill on their forced march west to Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. (Liberty Hill is one of only two surviving witness sites to the Trail of Tears in Rutherford County). More suffering reached Liberty Hill during the Civil War. The house was the site of a skirmish during Wheeler’s Raid in December 1862 and the murder of an African American man during Reconstruction. Jefferson’s prominence waned during the following years, and by the 1960s nearly every building in Jefferson was destroyed or relocated during the construction of Percy Priest Dam. Liberty Hill is the last remnant of the once-prosperous town of Jefferson. In 2018, the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area developed a Heritage Development Plan to help promote and preserve this place that has witnessed so much history. 2018 Update: Heritage Development Plan: www.mtsuhistpres.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Liberty-H...
Gov. John C. Brown House Pulaski, TN From the historical marker: Built between 1853 and 1860 by Dr. William Battle, this house is a significant example of Greek Revival architecture. As the home of Dr. Elihu Edmondson, it was occupied by Union troops during the civil war. The house was owned by John C. Brown after his term as Governor of Tennessee. In 1927, the residence was sold to Dr. and Mrs. James Knox Polk Blackburn, who modernized the dwelling known as "Colonial Hall." Martin Methodist College purchased the house in 1994. Two years later, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/...
Ready House I recently watched a documentary on the history of Rutherford County. The first county seat was the now underwater town of Jefferson. County officials wanted to move the county seat to a better location. Murfreesboro was ultimately chosen, but Mr. Ready wanted his town of Readyville to be the new county seat (presumably so he could make a lot of money selling a lot of his land in the area.) After Murfreesboro was chosen, Mr. Charles Ready continued to throw a fit about Readyville not being chosen. Soon afterward, when it was necessary to create the border between Rutherford and Cannon counties, Officials made sure the border went through Mr. Ready's house and mill so that he'd have to pay taxes in both counties. From this vantage point, the East side on the left is cannon County and the right west side is Rutherford. Eventually, Charles Ready became a U.S. Congressman. Note: Another name for this 1828 house is "The Corners on Stones River." This house was significantly damaged by a tornado on April 1, 2023.
Boyhood Home of Archie Campbell Archie Campbell was a country musician and a star of the Grand Ole Opry and the long running Nashville TV Show "Hee Haw." He was born in 1914 in Bulls Gap, TN (A small town with an important railroad history in the corner of Hawkins Co., TN). Next door to this homestead is the Bulls Gap city hall and the Archie Campbell Museum. Highway US11 in the area was renamed Archie Campbell Highway. Every Labor Day Weekend, Bulls Gap has an Archie Cambell celebration
Eli Sims House Eli Sims l(Feb. 1, 1776 - Sept. 14, 1862) was a White County farmer, educator, road commissioner, and county trustee. He established the first cotton gin in the county. He served also as the chairman of the White County Quartely Court. He was born in Larne, Ireland and settled in White County in 1810. This house was built in 1810 and is believed to be the first brick house in the county. He married Rachel Townsend in 1807, and they raised 12 children. Sims is buried in the old Zion Cemetery. This house is located at the intersection of the Old Smithville Highway which runs parallel to US70 (TN26) and the Old Kentucky Rd. (TN136) west of Sparta
Cheekwood 1: The Mansion Part of the Cheekwood Botanical Gardens in the Bellevue section of Nashville, TN. This mansion was owned by the Cheek family, famous for the coffee blend served in the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville, which President Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed was "Good to the Last Drop." It was built in 1929 and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The family lived here until the 50's when it was given to the city with the Mansion used as an art museum and the grounds became a botanical garden.
Centennial Hall aka the Carlisle house on highway 96 was moved to its hiiltop perch after it was used in the Tennessee Centennial exhibition at Centennial Park in 1897. Originally the Knights of Pythias Pavilion, this glassdomed and wooden structure was constructed by the fraternal organization for the Exposition, for which Nashville’s famous Parthenon was also constructed. The building was actually dismantled and moved from the exhibition site in 1900 by Joseph Parks, supposedly to impress a woman he was courting. Perched on its rocky knoll, this National Historic Register property has witnessed over a century of change, and is still a private residence today.
Gray-Lemke House Located along Old Hillsboro Rd. (TN46) near the intersection with Boyd's Mill Rd, just a bit north of Lieper's Fork in an area that used to be the community of Bingham. On the National Register of Historic Places, it is listed as the Henry P. Gray House who was the store owner of the community store in Bingham. The house was built in 1856 in a Greek Revival style. This is stop #6 on the TNTrailsandByways.com Old TN Trail.
Dr. Samuel Mayes House also known as the Mayes-Duling House. Built in 1808 with additions in 1820. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Jonathan Webster House Jonathan Webster (1767-1854) was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War from Georgia and purchased land in what is now Cross Bridges, TN in Maury County. He came here when the area was a wilderness and was credited with killing the last panter in the area. He started building this house in 1810. He was also known as the person who brought mules to Maury County and was the first local breeder. His actions led to the county becoming the Mule Capital of the nation. This is stop #45 on the TNTrailsandByways.com "Old TN Trail." It is also on the National Register of Historic Places and is located on Hampshire Pike (US412)
Lipscomb Place This mansion, built in 1830, belonged to George Lipscomb who was a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Seminole Campaign. This is stop #43 on the TNTrailsandByways.com "Old TN Trail"
Hunter-Preston Farmhouse This farm was part on the 2,560 acre Thomas Benton plantaion which was sold in 1821 to Samuel Cummins, and was then sold to Dr. George B.Hunter in 1865. In 1902, this house was built in a Queen Anne style using Sears and roebuck hardware, woodwork and mantels. JT Morton purchased the 500 acre farm in 1907 for $13,500. The Blackburn family operated a dairy farm for 30 years. In 1999, the Preston family granted a conservation easement to the Land Trust of Tennessee. This is stop #18 on the TNTrailsandByways.com "Old TN Trail" Here is the historical marker: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/w...
Lotz House - Franklin, TN The Lotz House is across the street from the Carter House in Franklin, TN and was an important location in the Battle of Franklin during the Civil War. Today the house is opened as a Civil War museum. German immigrant Johann Lotz was a carpenter who finished his house in 1958 and also used it as a "show house" to potential clients. The inside of the house has an engineering impressive black walnut wraparound handrail that starts on the ground floor and wraps all the way to the second floor, as well as outdoor handcarved acorn finials, millwork and cartouches that were constructed by Lotz. On Nov. 30, 1864, the epicenter of the battle of Franklin was right at the Carter and Lotz propery. The lotz family feared they would not survive inside their wooden home and accepted an invitation to hide in the brick basement with the Carter's in their basement for 17 hours while the battle raged. Historians note that the hand-to-hand fighting that happened right in this yard was some of the most severe during the civil war. When the dust had settled, the house was used as a hospital and there are numerous blood stains still visible in every room of the house. Today, you can visit the house, which is located on Columbia Pike (US 31) just south of Five Points in Downtown Franklin. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Here is the historical marker: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/... and the civil war marker: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/...
Rhudy House - Elizabethton, TN This brick home in the middle of Elizabethton, TN was built buy Capt. L.H. Rhudy in 1894 and remained in the family until 1992. He was a businessman and industrialist and developed much of downtown Elizabethton along with his brother-in-law Judge Dungan. The interior and exterior walls of this Queen Anne style home are solid brick. The home has been remodeled often over the years, but the interior still retains most of the original oak and maple woodwork and 8 original fireplaces. Today, the home is part of the Elizabethton Historic Distric entry on the National Register of Historic Places and is stop #1 on the Elizabethon Downtown Walking Tour
Andrew Johnson's Early Home Andrew Johnson and his family lived in this house from some time in the 1830's until 1851. Johnson was born and raised in Greeneville, TN. Before entering politics, he was a tailor, and his tailor shop is across the street from this house, although preseved inside of a brick building now. While living here, his life changed drastically becoming a local alderman and then mayor of Greeneville, continuing on to state represenative and state senator. He was elected U.S. Representative 5 times but moved from this house during that time. The house that President Johnson moved into in 1851 is just a few blocks away. Today, this home is part of the Andrew Johnson Visitors Complex, which is part of the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Ferguson Hall - Spring Hill, TN This Antebellum home dates back to 1853 and was the home of Martin Cheairs. During the Civil War, it was the headquarters of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn in April and May of 1963. On May 7, 1864, local physician and politician Dr. George B. Peters visited Van Dorn here to discuss allegations that Van Dorn had an affair with his wife. Dr. Peters shot and killed Van Dorn in the back of the head with a pistol. After the war, this became the Branham-Hughes Military Academy and today is part of Tennessee Childrens Home. The home is located on highway US 31 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. For More info: www.tennesseechildrenshome.org/fergusonhall.htm This photo has been used without permission, violating the crative commons license here: backgroundchecks.org/25-safest-cities-in-tennessee-2016.html The Safest Cities in Tennessee 2016 Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/best-raise-family/ Here Are The 10 Best Cities In Tennessee To Raise A Family
Replica Loretta Lynn Homestead as part of the Loretta Lynn Dude Ranch in Hurricane Mills, TN is this Log Cabin. This was recreated to look like the home in Butcher Holler, KY to portray the rags-to-riches legacy of her childhood as the "Coal Miner's Daughter"
Neat house in Greeneville, TN At least I assume it was someone's private residence at one time. This building on College St. is now Jeffers Mortuary
Valentine Sevier home - Greeneville, TN This is the oldest house in Greeneville, built sometime around 1795 by Sevier, who was a local political leader and philanthropist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At one time, the home was owned by President Andrew Johnson whose final home is just across the street down the block. Later the house was owned by the O'Keefe family where Quincy Marshall O'Keefe and Edith O'Keefe Susong became the only mother and daughter in the TN Newspaper Hall of Fame.
Range House - Elizabethton, TN in the 1880's, this house was owned by Robert Taylor of the famous Alf & Robert Taylor governor brothers. The house was built by Dr. Abraham Jobe who was a local postmaster and in the mercantile business.
Dickson-Williams Mansion - Greeneville, TN According to the historic marker: Designed and constructed (1815-21) by Irish craftsmen Thomas Battersby and John Hoy, this house was built by Greeneville's first postmaster, William Dickson, for his daughter, Catharine (Mrs. Alexander Williams). Marquis de LaFayette, Presidents Jackson and Polk, Henry Clay, David Crockett, and Frances Hodgsen Burnett were visitors. It served as headquarters for both Confederate and Union officers. Confederate General John Hunt Morgan spent his last night here before being killed in the garden on September 4, 1864. This is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Greeneville Historic District.
Dickson-Williams Mansion - Greeneville, TN According to the historic marker: Designed and constructed (1815-21) by Irish craftsmen Thomas Battersby and John Hoy, this house was built by Greeneville's first postmaster, William Dickson, for his daughter, Catharine (Mrs. Alexander Williams). Marquis de LaFayette, Presidents Jackson and Polk, Henry Clay, David Crockett, and Frances Hodgsen Burnett were visitors. It served as headquarters for both Confederate and Union officers. Confederate General John Hunt Morgan spent his last night here before being killed in the garden on September 4, 1864.
The Edward Cox House In front of the house is a wooden marker that reads: The Edward Cox House Built in 1774 A Shrine of Methodism In 1774, former Revolutionary War soldier Edward Cox and his wife Sallie moved here from Maryland. This is located in what is today known as Sullivan County, TN near Bluff City on the Holston River. He was a Methodist preacher and he moved here to establish a Methodist congregation in the area. This home was rebuilt in 1966.
Dungan House - Elizabethton, TN This house is tour stop #2 on the Elizabethton Walking tour brochure. Here is what the brochure says: The Dungan House, located at 619 Hattie Avenue, was constructed by Judge W.P. Dungan in 1892, and is believed to be the first house built in the New Town. One of the more elaborate homes built in the city during the 1890s, the Victorian home in the Eastlake Style reflected the success, prosperity and status of its owner, a town builder for more than 30 years. It was the first house in Elizabethton to have electric lights, a residential telephone, and its own private water system which supplied water, during its early years, to the old Lynnwood Hotel which originally stood two blocks away.
Brentvale Log Cabin at Crockett Park Not much info is provided about this log cabin, except for the sign in front which says it's a historic log cabin built ca. 1830. Update: This cabin has been removed. This website updates the status but has the history as well: www.brentwoodtn.gov/departments/parks-recreation/parks-tr... 2022 Update on Brentvale Log Cabin Status The historic log cabin, known as Brentvale, that once sat at the entrance of Crockett Park, was removed in July 2022 due to deterioration of the structure. A combination of foundation settling, and natural deterioration of the nearly 200-year-old log timbers, rendered the building unrepairable and structurally unsafe. The Brentwood Historic Commission, was deeply saddened, to see the building come down, but desires to preserve remaining historic materials of Brentvale to be used on the site in the future. The Historic Commission will work with the Brentwood City Commission on a recommended use to preserve the historical, educational and community purposes of this site. Home History Brentvale, originally sat on Old Smyrna Road and was the original home site of William Temple Sneed, the seventh child of James Sneed. The home was constructed in 1830 and in the 1930’s enlarged by joining two log cabins. Over the years the home was expanded as different owners occupied it. The home was occupied by Larry and Janis Gatlin. When they sold the property to Roger and Barbara Mick in 1993, Mick gifted the original log house, the core of the home, to the city and paid for it to be moved and assembled at Crockett Park.
Cool Springs House - Brentwood, TN This is the Cool Springs that the mall and surrounding area is named after. The house was originally a two story log house built in the 1830s by James Carothers. It was expanded to with a frame addition in the 1870s by his son, Dr. Robert Blake Carothers. This home was originally located on Mallory Road and ironically needed to be moved because the Cool Springs area has grown so much commercially that the house would have been removed with commercial development. In 1993, it was moved to Crockett Park in Brentwood. Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/unique-tn-houses/ These 10 Unique Houses In Tennessee Will Make You Look Twice… And Want To Go In
Jackson County, NC Visitor Center This Looks like the most prominent house in Sylva, NC. The sign out front says it is the Visitor's Center and home to the local Chamber of Commerce and tourism board. Looking the address up on the National Registry of Historic Places, this home along Main St. used to be known as the Dr. D. D. Hooper House.
Cool house in Jonesborough, TN Along TN81 (old TN34) W. Main St. in Jonesborough Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/unique-tn-houses/ These 10 Unique Houses In Tennessee Will Make You Look Twice… And Want To Go In
Yeoman's in the Fork - Lieper's Fork, TN This house, originally built by Dr. J.W. Allen is 1881 is now known as Yeoman's in the Fork bookstore. The beautifully restored home has quite the collection of rare books and documents, including a document or letter signed by every U.S. President. When I originally shared this photo with my facebook friends, one of my high school classmates wrote me and said she used to live here. I was perplexed and asked her to share more information. In the early 80's, my friend's parents bought this house when it was a fixer-upper and Lieper's Fork wasn't the tourist destination that it is today. At one time, the house belonged to someone who was related to or friends with Jesse James. When they would work on renovating the house, the townspeople would come out and watch in case large piles of cash were ever discovered. (They never were.) Here is the writeup of the Liepers Fork Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places: Circa 1890. Originally built by Dr. Alien in 1890, this Georgian Revival house served as Hillsboro Academy's female dormitory, the building was moved to its present site in 1931, without its two-story original 1890 porch. A two-story three bay frame l-house rests on a concrete foundation, has weatherboard siding, asphalt shingle roof and an integral full height Neo-classical porch supported by paneled Doric columns and pilasters with simple capitals. These columns were original to the Pettway House in Franklin. The central six-panel entry door has framed sidelights of three glass panes over wood panels. Five, nine-over- nine double hung sash windows with louvered shutters complete the facade. The rear elevation retains its second story porch and a rear addition. Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tn-daytrips/ 15 Unique Tennessee Day Trips That You Absolutely Must Take 8) Leiper’s Fork Historic Leiper's Fork is precisely where you want to go when you're looking for a small town with all the charm Tennessee can muster. You'll enjoy a gorgeous drive out into the country, then will be able to fill up on some down-home food at Puckett's. We call that a win. Or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tn-best-small-town/ Why This One Little Town Is Tennessee’s Best Kept Secret
Henry Earnest Fort House Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Mauris-Earnest Fort House. This house is located just south of Chuckey, TN in Greene County, TN along Chuckey Pike. The house was built ca. 1784 and is one of the oldest houses in Tennessee. It was built as a fort back when defending Cherokee threats were important. The house is on the banks of the Nolichuckey River and the surrounding farmland is now its own entry on the National Register, listed as the Earnest Farms National Historic District, and is the oldest single-family operated farm in the state. This house also reflects German log contruction traditions brought to America by the Earnest family.
Thomas Martin House - Pulaski, TN built in 1842, it now is used as the First Farmers and Merchants National Bank
The Athenaeum - Columbia, TN from Wikipedia: The Athenaeum Rectory is a historic building in Columbia, Tennessee that features both Gothic and Moorish architectural elements. Completed in 1837, the building originally served as the rectory for The Columbia Female Institute and as the residence of the school's first president, the Reverend Franklin Gillette Smith. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The structure, later to be known as the Athenaeum Rectory, was originally intended to be the residence of Samuel Polk Walker, nephew of President James K. Polk. Construction commenced in 1835. By the time construction was completed in 1837, the intended resident had been changed to the Reverend Franklin Gillette Smith who came to Tennessee to serve as the president of The Columbia Female Institute, an Episcopal school for female students. In 1851, the Rev. Smith resigned from the Columbia Female Institute due to alleged improprieties with a student. The authority who asked for his resignation was the Institute's co-founder, Rt. Rev. James Hervey Otey, the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Stung by a general backlash from Smith's local supporters, Bishop Otey moved his family and his administrative base to Memphis, Tennessee, which continued as the seat of Tennessee's bishops, informally and formally, until 1982, when the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee was created. Still committed to his educational mission, Rev. Smith soon founded the Columbia Athenaeum School on property adjacent to the Columbia Female Institute. The Athenaeum Rectory continued to serve as the residence for the Smith family and housed reception areas for the newly founded school. The Columbia Athenaeum continued to operate until 1903. During its 52 years of operation, the school developed a national reputation for the breadth and quality of its curriculum. Reverend Smith believed that the intelligence level of women was equivalent to that of men and offered courses that were traditionally available to only men such as calculus, physics, and marine biology. The main school complex consisted of twelve buildings. Once the school had ceased operation, the property was sold by the Smith heirs. The facilities housed a local high school until 1914. In 1915, the City of Columbia constructed a new high school on the property. Members of the Smith family continued to occupy the Athenaeum Rectory until 1973 when it was donated to the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities for use by the residents of Maury County. Today, the rectory is operated as a historic house museum. In addition, a small cottage that Reverend Smith used as a study survives to this day. Events are held twice annually which recreate the educational experiences of young women at the female institute. The Athenaeum Rectory features elements from a variety of architectural styles: Gothic, Moorish, Greek Revival, Italianate, and others. The structure was designed by Adolphus Heiman, an architect of the early 19th century who designed many buildings in the Middle Tennessee area. Nathan Vaught, a master builder from Maury County, was responsible for construction of the building. Today, it is open for tours: www.athenaeumrectory.com/ Update: the Tennessee Preservation Trust added this to the 2014 Ten in Tennessee: a yearly list of threatened historic sites. www.tennesseepreservationtrust.org/ten-in-tn/2014-ten-in-...
Old house in Auburntown, TN Along Main St., which used to be highway TN96
James Park Home - Downtown Knoxville Apparently this old house on teh National Register of Historic Places in downtown Knoxville was considered so important that when Whittle Communications built their downtown campus (which is now the Baker Federal Courthouse) they acquired the entire block except for this house on the corner.) According to the marker: The Foundation for this house was laid by Governor John Sevier on a block bought from Knoxville founder James White in 1797. Jmaes Park, pioneer merchant and Knoxville's Second mayor, completed the main house in 1812. His son, Dr. James Park occupied the house until 1912. It subsequently housed a War Work Shop and tearoom for the Red Cross, the Reaves-Leach infirmary, and the Knoxville Academy of Medicine. The Gulf & Ohio Railways renovated the house in 2006.
Lee University Office of Admissions I suppose this used to be a house of an adjoining property to the college in Cleveland, TN along Ocoee St. and then the college bought the house and converted it to offices. And the house is along the Old Lee Highway, which is just a coincidence, being named after different Lee's. Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/creepy-tn-mausoleum/
P.M. Cragmiles House - Cleveland, TN It seems like the neatest things in Cleveland, TN have the Cragmiles name on it, and so it is with this house along Ocoee St., not far from the center of town. Today the house is used as the History and Archives branch of the county Library system, which contains significant records about the Civil War and Reconstruction years in Bradley County and East Tennessee. The home was built in 1866, when business leader P. M. Craigmiles announced the beginning of post-Civil War recovery in Cleveland with the construction of this impressive Italianate-style brick home. Today, the building is on the National Registry of Historic Places
James Buchanan Log House This two story log house was built in 1807-08. It is not only one of the oldest houses in Nashville, but is also one of the oldest two story log houses in Middle Tennessee. The following info is from the historic house's web site: www.buchananloghouse.com/buchanan-log-house-history It has evolved through the years into a unique historic property which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is built of chestnut logs with poplar floors. Original limestone fireplaces provide focal points for the parlor and Lucinda's room. There are fireplaces on each end of Buchanan Log House -- on the original hall and Parlor style. When the 1820 addition was added, the fireplace on the west end was removed from the original log home and placed on the west end of the 1820 addition; so the chimney on the east end has a fireplace in the Nave Room (downstairs) and in the Lucinda Room (upstairs). The chimney on the west end has a fireplace in the 1820 addition (now our dining room). James Buchanan, an early settler in Davidson County, married Lucinda East in 1810. The first log addition to the home was necessitated in 1820, to accommodate their growing family, which eventually numbered 16 children. The next addition to the house occurred in 1900. Two historical prominent residents were Judge Thomas N. Frazier who purchased the home in 1867, and his son, James Beriah Frazier. Judge Frazier was Criminal Court Judge for Rutherford and Davidson Counties, and was impeached during the Reconstruction Days because of his so-called interference in the ratification of the 14th Amendment. (He was later restored to office in 1870). James Beriah Frazier spent his teenage years in this home. He was a popular governor 1903 to 1905, and was a U.S. Senator 1905 to 1911. Here is the historical marker: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/...
Carmichael Library Addition This Library from an old house is along Ocoee Street just a couple of blocks north of the town Square. It's either part of or next door to Lee University.
The Edward Cox Log House In front of the house is a wooden marker that reads: The Edward Cox House Built in 1774 A Shrine of Methodism In 1774, former Revolutionary War soldier Edward Cox and his wife Sallie moved here from Maryland. This is located in what is today known as Sullivan County, TN near Bluff City on the Holston River. He was a Methodist preacher and he moved here to establish a Methodist congregation in the area. This home was rebuilt in 1966.
Small World (version 2) Known to many as the strange looking house near Warner Park, "Small World" is probably Nashville's most unusual design of modern home architecture. The flat triangular design of a house lies along chickering Road, a street that is otherwise lined with more conservatively designed mansions. Contrasting the white exterior is the black cone, as if it were a wineglass and the house is lined with windows of small circular bubbles. The house is owned by Richard and Rhonda Small. (Get the pun?) Richard Small is a Nashville Businessman who is the CEO of H.K.Co., a maker of Gauges and valves. Curious what it looks like from above? maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geo...
Small World Known to many as the strange looking house near Warner Park, "Small World" is probably Nashville's most unusual design of modern home architecture. The flat triangular design of a house lies along chickering Road, a street that is otherwise lined with more conservatively designed mansions. Contrasting the white exterior is the black cone, as if it were a wineglass and the house is lined with windows of small circular bubbles. The house is owned by Richard and Rhonda Small. (Get the pun?) Richard Small is a Nashville Businessman who is the CEO of H.K.Co., a maker of Gauges and valves. Curious what it looks like from above? maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geo...
The UFO has landed This is the crazy UFO house in Signal Mountain, TN. This is just north of Chattanooga, where US Highway 127 winds up the mountain. Hello to anyone who found this photo on: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:UFO_House.jpg
Historic House in Greeneville, TN This old brick house along Main St. in the heart of Greeneville dates back to 1820. As of the day I'm writing this, the house is for sale, if you've got a nifty $299K lying around. I thought I read somewhere that at one time Valentine Sevier lived in this house in addition to the white house down the road that has a historical marker about him, but I can't find any confirmation of that.
Abandoned Samuel Powell Law Office - Rogersville, TN The Christmas Wreath on the front door is a nice touch. This house is over 200 years old. Since this photo was taken, the front porch and awning has fallen off. Learn more about it here: www.therogersvillereview.com/rogersville/article_fa6bdb5b... Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/abandoned-tn/ 10 Insane Abandoned Spots in Tennessee That May Give You Nightmares Or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/maybe-creepy-tn/ 10 Creepy Houses In Tennessee That Could Be Haunted or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/abandoned-tn/ 10 Insane Abandoned Spots in Tennessee That May Give You Nightmares
Smith-Matthews House This home from 1837 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Dr. Benjamin Franklin Smith House. It's along Columbia Pike (US 31) in Old Lynnville (a.k.a. Waco) in northern Giles County. The Brick house is listed on the register for its local significance for architecture, with styles of Mid 19th Century Revival, Exotic Revival, and Victorian: Queen Anne
Allandale Mansion Front - Kingsport, TN The Allandale Mansion was the dream home of Ruth and Harvey Brooks. The mansion's distinctive portico has caused the mansion to be nicknamed "The White House of Kingsport." The mansion was built in 1953 and from the 500 acre property the Brooks raised Black Angus cows and Tennessee Walking Horses. In their will, they deeded the mansion to the city of Kingsport so that it could be used by the community. The mansion is designed in a Georgian architecture style. There are four chimneys, formal fireplaces in each main room, and a hipped roof. A grand wooden curved staircase is the main feature in the foyer. The Barn is located along US 11W (the old Lee Highway) in Kingsport, where the city extends into Hawkins County.
Allandale Mansion - Kingsport, TN The Allandale Mansion was the dream home of Ruth and Harvey Brooks. The mansion's distinctive portico has caused the mansion to be nicknamed "The White House of Kingsport." The mansion was built in 1953 and from the 500 acre property the Brooks raised Black Angus cows and Tennessee Walking Horses. In their will, they deeded the mansion to the city of Kingsport so that it could be used by the community. The mansion is designed in a Georgian architecture style. There are four chimneys, formal fireplaces in each main room, and a hipped roof. A grand wooden curved staircase is the main feature in the foyer. The mansion is located along US 11W (the old Lee Highway) in Kingsport, where the city extends into Hawkins County.
Davy Crockett replica birthplace cabin This log cabin was built in 1986 at the Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park near Limestone, TN as a replica of where he was born. There is a rock marker signifying the spot just in front of the house. Update: This replica will be replaced with another replica: www.greenevillesun.com/news/local_news/crockett-cabin-rea... UPDATE: This cabin was destroyed by Hurricane Helene flooding. Source: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1096835198677909&set=pcb....
Humphreys County Museum - Waverly, TN This museum is located inside the Archibald Butterfield House which was built in 1922 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It's located at Fort Hill, which was a Union Civil War fort overlooking Waverly and the important railroad line Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tn-civil-war/ 15 Sights In Tennessee That Will Take You To A Dark, Deadly Past 10) Fort Hill at Waverly Built from 1863-1864, Fort Hill was protected by the 12th and 13th Colored Troops, as well as the 1st Kansas Batter and 8th Iowa Cavalry.
The Ledges - Lewisburg, TN The Ledges, also known as the Joe Chase Adams House is on the National Register of Historic places, notable for it's Queen Anne architectural style.
Gillespie Stone House According to the historical marker along nearby US 11E/321: This was built in 1792 for George Gillespie by Seth Smith, a Quaker stone mason from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. An early fort originally stood on the site, and was the dividing line between Washington and Green Counties in 1783. The house was purchased in 1842 by Jacob Klepper and has been preserved by his descendants. Today the house is on the National Register of Historic Places as Col George Gillespie House. (The register also lists the address as being on highway US411, but 411 has been decommissioned around here. The road is old TN34.) Also, the county lines must have shifted some as it is now fully in Washington County. The town of Limestone is nearby. For more info: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~snipper/wau/st...
William Blount Mansion - Knoxville, TN The Blount Mansion in Downtown Knoxville was the home of one the areas earliest leaders and the house is one of the oldest in the state. Blount was a signer of the United States Constitution, the only governor of the Southwest Territory, the olny US Senator expelled from the senate for treason (excluding the Civil War) and an early important politician in Tennessee. Blount moved to the area now known as Knoxville in 1792 and built his house overlooking the Tennessee River. When the house was completed in 1796 it became the de facto capitol of the Southwest Territory. The mansion was built at a time when all the other homes in the area were essentially log cabins. Then as a new state was ready to form, the Tennessee Constitution was drafted in the house. By the 1920's, the house had deteriorated, and there were plans to demolish the house and turn this land into a parking lot. This was despite well-known Tennessee historian John Trotwood Moore calling the house the most important historical spot in Tennessee. By 1930, D.A.R. and the East Tennessee Historical Society had enough money raised to purchase and restore the house. Today, the Blount Mansion operates as a museum. It was one of the state's first properties to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also designated a National Historic Landmark. For more info: www.blountmansion.org/ Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/historic-houses-tn/ Everyone In Tennessee Should Visit These 20 Houses For Their Incredible Past
Hale-Wilkinson Carter Home - Hillsville, VA This old home is located next door to the old Carroll County Courthouse and was used as offices until the new courthouse was built a few blocks away. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the "Hillsville Historic District." Here is the story according to the historical marker on the front of the home: This Hillsville residence gently and graciously recaptures its rightful position as an historical home that echoes the lives and periods of the three families who lived here. A pair of chimneys on the north and south sides balances the original house built by Fielden Lewis Hale in 1845, as a three story, thirteen-room home of Federalist design. While serving in the Confederate Army, Captain Hale sold his home to James Wilkinson in 1864 for ten thousand Confederate dollars. The Wilkinson family lived here during part of and folliwing the War Between the States. James Wilkinson's daughter Mayetta married George Lafayette Carter. They, with their son James Walter, were the third and last family to live in this house. George L. Carter added the fourth and fifth floors , renovated the house to Colonial Style, and covered the outside with stucco. After the death of Mayetta Carter on January 10, 1957, the county used the house for offices. After the Carroll County offices moved, the future of the house was bleak. On February 14, 2001, an angel appeared before the county board of supervisors to speak of a plan to save the house. Evelyn Hawks Botschen was behind the creation of the Hale Wilkinson carter Home Foundation, Inc. In honor of Mrs. Evelyn Botschen, her many helping angels, and in honor of this structure's historical significance, the Wood's River Chapter Virginia Society National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century Places this Tablet. May 7, 2006
Granny Cabin - Blountville, TN Behind the Deery Inn in Blountville, TN is a collection of preserved old buildings. the marker for this one reads: This unique log cabin has only three logs per wall and a puncheon floor. It was moved here from Hawkins County and Virginia Caldwell named it the Granny cabin. It is furnished to show the roughest dwelling of the early settlers.
Colonial Hall - Pulaski, TN From the historical marker: Built between 1853 and 1860 by Dr. William Battle, this house is a significant example of Greek Revival architecture. As the home of Dr. Elihu Edmondson, it was occupied by Union troops during the civil war. The house was owned by John C. Brown after his term as Governor of Tennessee. In 1927, the residence was sold to Dr. and Mrs. James Knox Polk Blackburn, who modernized the dwelling known as "Colonial Hall." Martin Methodist College purchased the house in 1994. Two years later, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/...
Craighead-Jackson House Located in downtown Knoxville next to the Blount Manison. There lots of good info on the Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craighead-Jackson_House
Carter House - Franklin, TN The Carter House is a historic house along Columbia Avenue (US31) in Franklin, Tennessee. In that house, the Carter family along with neighbors and servants hid in the basement waiting for the second Battle of Franklin to end. It is a Tennessee state historic site, and it is a contributing property and centerpiece of the Franklin Battlefield, a U.S. National Historic Landmark historic district. Fountain Branch Carter completed construction of the house in 1830. The federal style brick farm house was accompanied by several other outbuildings such as the farm office, smokehouse, and kitchen. The house and the other three buildings are still intact and illustrate the horror of the Civil War battle with over a thousand bullet holes still visible, making it perhaps the most fired upon building during the war. The Carter House played a very important role in the Second Battle of Franklin. Prior to the fight, the house was used as Federal headquarters. After the battle it was used as field hospital aiding both Federal and Confederate wounded. The middle son of Fountain Branch Carter, Tod Carter, was mortally wounded in the battle. He was still alive the morning after the battle when he was found and brought to the house. There he lived for several more hours, surrounded by his distraught family. Tod Carter died of his wounds December 2, 1864, and was buried that day in Rest Haven Cemetery just north of town. He came home for the first time in over three years when he fought at the Battle of Franklin in the 20th Tennessee Infantry. The room where Tod Carter died is one of the features of the guided tour of the home today. Tours of the Carter House and grounds are available daily and include a video about the Battle of Franklin as well as a museum with artifacts relating to the site. The State of Tennessee owns the house, and the site is administered in partnership with the Tennessee Historical Commission by the Battle of Franklin Trust. Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tn-civil-war/ 15 Sights In Tennessee That Will Take You To A Dark, Deadly Past 13) Carter House or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tn-hauntings-oct/ These 10 Hauntings in Tennessee Will Send Chills Down Your Spine
Rock Castle - Hendersonville, TN Rock Castle, located in Hendersonville, is the former home of Daniel Smith. Construction began in 1784; its completion was delayed by Indian attacks until 1791. It is listed with the National Register of Historic Places and is open to the public. It is a Tennessee State-Owned Historic Site and is operated by the Friends of Rock Castle in partnership with the Tennessee Historical Commission. www.historicrockcastle.com/ Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/historic-houses-tn/ Everyone In Tennessee Should Visit These 20 Houses For Their Incredible Past or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tn-castles/ Most People Don’t Know These 5 Castles Are Hiding In Tennessee or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/hidden-historic-tn-gems/ These 11 Hidden Gems In Tennessee Hold Historic Keys To The Past
Savannah, TN Historic District: Williams-Schutt House Built in 1874. The Savannah Historic District is a group of 17 homes that form together to become an entry on the National Register of Historic Places.
Savannah, TN Historic District: Yellow House The Savannah Historic District is a group of 17 homes that form together to become an entry on the National Register of Historic Places. I didn't get the name or the year of this house. It's at the corner of Church St. and College St.
Savannah, TN Historic District: Welch-Hansgen House The Savannah Historic District is a group of 17 homes that form together to become an entry on the National Register of Historic Places. This home dates back to 1901.
The Gordon House From the marker: "One of the few remaining buildings associated with the old Natchez Trace is the house of ferry operator John Gordon. Built in 1817-18, the Gordon House was one of the first brick homes in this area. "In the early 1800's, Gordon settled here as ferry operator, farmer, and Indian fighter. Because military expeditions kept him away from home, his wife Dorothea supervised the building of this house. Gordon died shortly after it was completed, but Mrs. Gordon lived here until her death in 1859. In 1978 the National Park Service restored the house to is original appearance." The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is in Hickman County - barely. Maury county makes an odd zig-zag here and if I'd stepped back 5 feet, I'd been in that county. A short trail of about a half mile walk from here takes you to a segment of the original trace and to the location of the ferry site at the river. The house is accessible from the Natchez Trace Parkway"
Christopher Taylor House - Jonesborough, TN When visiting historic Jonesborough, this two story log cabin is located along Main St. from this historical marker: About one mile southwest of this location, this log house was built in 1777 by this officer who was a veteran of the French and Indian War and a major in the American Revolutionary War. He is buried in the family cemetery nearby. Andrew Jackson lived here in 1788-89 wile practicing law in Jonesborough. The house was moved intact to this site in 1974 to preserve it from demolition.
Faxon-Thomas Mansion This Mansion was built in 1904 with a Classical Revival Edwardian style on a high bluff overlooking the Tennessee River. The house was originally built for Ross Faxon, a wealthy insurance broker. A few years later, it was sold to the widow of Benjamin F. Thomas, on of the founders of the first Coca-Cola bottlers. In 1952, the mansion became the Hunter Museum of American Art, with modern expansions added on to the back of the mansion. The Mansion / Museum is the centerpiece of the Bluff View Arts District near downtown Chattanooga and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For the full story: www.huntermuseum.org/about/hunter-history/
Hughes House - Clifton, TN Watch out for the uneven historical sidewalk in the front. Since I took this photo in 2012, it was repainted light green and became the Commodore Inn. According to this post, it is under consideration for the National Register of Historic Places. www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=344264617913359... Update: 10 years later, here's a short video about this home www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE4J7tAKciE Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tn-river-towns/ 7 Charming River Towns In Tennessee To Visit This Spring
The Home of Buford Pusser - Adamsville, TN Buford Pusser is the small town sheriff who became legendary because of the film "Walking Tall." Pusser returned to McNairy County to find things weren't like they used to be, then successfully ran for Sheriff to clean up the corruption. After a couple of terms as sheriff, he became the Adamsville constable. Then in 1974, he died in a one car crash. Today, the home he lived in is preserved as a museum. www.bufordpussermuseum.com/
Milky Way Farm's House Franklin Mars, the founder of Mars Candies, the company that made the Milky Way candy bar, built a farm here in the earlier 30's and named it after his famous candy bar. The farm was built along highway US31 north of Pulaski, TN. During the Great Depression, the cattle farm was the largest employer in Giles County and the farm had it's own train station. In 1940, their horse Gallahadion won the Kentucky Derby. The farm is on the National Register of Historic Places. At one time not too long ago, the Tudor Revival Manor House was a bed and breakfast. I think there are new owners currently trying to develop the area into a new attraction. The home is very large with 21 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms and cannot fit into a photo well. It is said to have the largest dining table in Tennessee milkywayfarm.info/history/
The Igloo House of Navarre Beach, FL Located along the Emerald Coast in Florida's Panhandle is Navarre Beach, home of some of the whitest sand of any beach anywhere. One local landmark is this house shaped like an igloo. It's unusual shape makes it more hurricane resistant.
Davy Crockett's Last House and Museum After being defeated in a re-election effort for U.S. Congress in 1834, Davy Crockett decided to move out to West Tennessee. About 10 miles away from where his mom and sister were living, he built a farm in Gibson County, which would eventually be his last residence. Soon thereafter, he went to fight in the Texas battle for independence and died at the Alamo in 1836. About halfway between the location of his farm, and where his mom and sister lived is the town of Rutherford, TN. The townspeople took the remaining logs from his last house which had fallen apart, and assembled them to make "Davy Crockett's Last house and Museum." The home is located along old US45W on the north side of town. Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/reasons-to-love-tn/ Here Are 20 Undeniable Reasons Why Everyone Loves Tennessee 18) Tall tales and history textbook writers are forever indebted to this southern state as the birthplace of Davy Crockett. The coon hat has simply never been the same. or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tn-cabins/ These Awesome Cabins In Tennessee Will Make Your Stay In Nature Unforgettable
1876 Pfeiffer House Located in the Historic Pensacola Village
Brown-Pusey House - Elizabethtown, KY This Georgian mansion was built in 1825 by John Y. Hill. It is known as "Hill House" and as "Aunt Beck Hill's Boarding House." The Swedish Nightengale, Jenny Lind sang on the front steps here in 1851 in front of a large crowd. General George Armstrong Custer and his wife Elizabeth boarded here from 1871-73 while he was tasked to combat the Ku Klux Klan and illegal distilleries. Doctors William Allen and Robert Brown Pusey gave the house to Elizabethtown in 1923 for a Community House and library. Today, the house is on the National register of Historic Places. For more info: www.touretown.com/Visitors/See/Brown-Pusey-House.aspx
Andrew Johnson Homestead (alt view) - Greeneville, TN Under the oversight of the National Park Service is the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site. In addition to his final house shown here, the National Historic Site also covers his Early home, his gravesite, and the visitors center which includes his tailor shop. The Andrew Johnson Homestead is maintained to look as it did when he and his wife lived in the domicile from 1869 to 1875. Johnson had purchased the home in 1851. During the war years, the house was occupied by soldiers. It required renovations when the family returned to the house after Johnson's leaving the presidency in 1869. It is a Greek Revival two-story brick house. The 1851-75 residence, built not long before Johnson purchased it, stayed in the possession of his heirs until 1942, the year the Federal Government acquired it. It had undergone considerable alteration throughout the years, including an extensive remodeling in the Victorian style in 1884-85. The National Park Service has restored and refurnished it to its 1869-75 appearance. It now consists, as it did then, of a two-story, brick main house and a two-story, brick ell at the rear. The brickwork is Flemish bond on the front and common bond on the sides. A double veranda extends along the rear of the main section and the northeast side and end of the ell; the exposed basement level gives the effect of three stories on this side. The front of the house sits flush on the street. The structure contains 10 rooms: kitchen and storeroom (also servants' quarters) in the basement; parlor, dining room, and two bedrooms on the first floor, one of which rooms was possibly the original kitchen; and four bedrooms on the second. The rooms of the main block on the first and second floors are divided into pairs by central halls. Each floor of the ell contains two rooms, one behind the other and separated by a chimney wall; these rooms open onto the porches.
Andrew Johnson Homestead - Greeneville, TN Under the oversight of the National Park Service is the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site. In addition to his final house shown here, the National Historic Site also covers his Early home, his gravesite, and the visitors center which includes his tailor shop. The Andrew Johnson Homestead is maintained to look as it did when he and his wife lived in the domicile from 1869 to 1875. Johnson had purchased the home in 1851. During the war years, the house was occupied by soldiers. It required renovations when the family returned to the house after Johnson's leaving the presidency in 1869. It is a Greek Revival two-story brick house. The 1851-75 residence, built not long before Johnson purchased it, stayed in the possession of his heirs until 1942, the year the Federal Government acquired it. It had undergone considerable alteration throughout the years, including an extensive remodeling in the Victorian style in 1884-85. The National Park Service has restored and refurnished it to its 1869-75 appearance. It now consists, as it did then, of a two-story, brick main house and a two-story, brick ell at the rear. The brickwork is Flemish bond on the front and common bond on the sides. A double veranda extends along the rear of the main section and the northeast side and end of the ell; the exposed basement level gives the effect of three stories on this side. The front of the house sits flush on the street. The structure contains 10 rooms: kitchen and storeroom (also servants' quarters) in the basement; parlor, dining room, and two bedrooms on the first floor, one of which rooms was possibly the original kitchen; and four bedrooms on the second. The rooms of the main block on the first and second floors are divided into pairs by central halls. Each floor of the ell contains two rooms, one behind the other and separated by a chimney wall; these rooms open onto the porches.
Two Rivers Mansion - Nashville, TN
The Largest Dining Table in Tennessee Milky Way Farms and it's Tudor Style mansion is home to what is believed to be the largest dining table in Tennessee. The farm and mansion was the home of Frank Mars, the creator of the Milky Way candy bar. If you were ever to be served a meal at this home a few miles north of Pulaski, you would find it can seat up to 40. Photo courtesy of my mom, who took the tour. Her big question for the cleaning staff was how they keep the center of the table dust free. They have a duster with a really long handle.
"Gateway" - Belle Meade, TN This artwork on the side of the home at 734 Jackson Blvd. in the Belle Meade area of Nashville has become controversial. The home's owner, Louise Kohler, calls the mural "Gateway." However, some of the neighbors don't think the large painting fits in with the traditional, upscale neighborhood. Personally, I like it, but I don't live in Nashville's richest neighborhood. For the full story: www.newschannel5.com/story/17549591/belle-meade-mural-pro...
The Redding House - Biloxi, MS Built in 1908, The Redding House is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places and is the only surviving downtown Biloxi mansion. thereddinghouse.com/History.aspx
Loretta Lynn's Mansion These days, the town of Hurricane Mills is synonymous with the Coal Miner's Daughter, however the town dates back to the early 1800s as the site of an iron furnace and a flour mill. On July 22, 1863, a civil war battle took place on this land resulting in 19 soldiers losing their lives. Then in 1876, local plantation owner James T. Anderson decided to build this mansion. (The columns were added to the front in the 1930's) The Classical Revival mansion and grounds, and the city at large had enough history there that the area was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Hurricane Mills Rural Historic District. In 1996, Loretta and Mooney Lynn fell in love with the mansion and the small town and bought the whole area, making this mansion their personal residence. After living in mansion for about two decades, they had another home built behind the mansion and opened the area up as a tourist attraction. Even part of the movie Coal Miner's Daughter was filmed here. Today, paying customers can take a tour of the inside of the home, or cheapskates like me can stand on the curb and look at it from here. While the rags-to-riches story make Hurricane Mills and the Mansion a top ten visited tourist attraction in Tennessee, there's something else that gets people talking. People say it's haunted. Loretta Lynn and all of her children have seen multiple ghosts. There's the stories of the ghost of James T. Anderson, the ghost of a lady who died while giving birth and ghosts of Civil War soldiers. For the whole haunting story, look here: www.ghosteyes.com/haunted-hurricane-mills-plantation Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/movie-views-tn/ These 15 Breathtaking Views In Tennessee Could Be Straight Out Of The Movies
Alex Haley's Home - Henning, TN Alex Haley was best known for his Pulitzer prize-winning novel Roots which was subsequently turned into one of the most watched television miniseries of all time. The bungalow home was built in 1919 and Haley lived here as a young boy with his grandparents. It was on the front porch that a young Haley would hear the oral accounts of his family's history, such as Kunta Kinte. After his death in 1992, he was buried to the side of that front porch. Today, the home which is owned by the state operates as a museum and in 2010 the Interpretive Center was built behind the home. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and was listed as the W. E. Palmer House, which was Haley's grandfather and a prominent local businessman. Haley's headstone also lists his other works: Malcolm X, Palmer Town, Madam Walker, A different Kind of Christmas, Queen, Henning and Fred Montgomery. Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tiny-towns-tn/ Tiny Towns In Tennessee Where HUGE Things Happened or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/hidden-historic-tn-gems/ These 11 Hidden Gems In Tennessee Hold Historic Keys To The Past
Alex Haley's Home - Henning, TN Alex Haley was best known for his Pulitzer prize-winning novel Roots which was subsequently turned into one of the most watched television miniseries of all time. The bungalow home was built in 1919 and Haley lived here as a young boy with his grandparents. It was on the front porch that a young Haley would hear the oral accounts of his family's history, such as Kunta Kinte. After his death in 1992, he was buried to the side of that front porch. Today, the home which is owned by the state operates as a museum and in 2010 the Interpretive Center was built behind the home. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and was listed as the W. E. Palmer House, which was Haley's grandfather and a prominent local businessman. Haley's headstone also lists his other works: Malcolm X, Palmer Town, Madam Walker, A different Kind of Christmas, Queen, Henning and Fred Montgomery. Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/historic-houses-tn/ Everyone In Tennessee Should Visit These 20 Houses For Their Incredible Past
McLean House - Bardstown, KY Built by brothers, Samuel and Hector McLean in 1812, to be used for office and rental purposes. In 1840 the Post Office, a newspaper office and later a chair manufacturer would use the building. This house is on the Bardstown town square along with the more famous Talbott Inn. Based on an internet search, I can't tell if this is currently run as a hotel or as apartments. When I took the photo in the summer of 2010, much of the town square was under construction. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Bardstown Historic District. If your into ghosts and the paranormal, many people say this is haunted after many Civil War soldiers lost their life here when the home was being used as a hospital. There are many stories of people who stayed in the house to be awakened by the sounds of moaning and weeping.
Christopher Columbus Collier house - Charlotte, TN Located on Charlotte's town square, this house of the local merchant was built ca. 1830. This house was built that year, probably because a devastating tornado destroyed almost all buildings in town earlier that year. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Charlotte Courthouse Square Historic District.
The Doctor Bowers House - Elizabethton, TN From the brochure entitled the Elizabethton Walking Tour, this home is listed as stop #4: The house known as the Doctor Bowers House was built around 1906 by Dr. E.E. Hunter and his wife, Mollie Jobe Hunter, daughter of Dr. Abraham Jobe, after a fire destroyed their previous home. One of Elizabethton's most beloved physicians, Dr. Hunter, also operated a drug store in the city, served for a short time as Postmaster, and oversaw the construction of the Covered Bridge. The house is primarily Greek Revival Style with various other architectural style influences, particularly Classical Revival. The north bay of the interior stair landing features beautiful stained glass windows.
Pecan Place - Trenton, TN This lovely Victorian Home home is located along the main road through Trenton (US45W). I'd tell you all about it, but it looks like the home's owner's have a blog where they have chronicled their journey through remodeling the home. teapottreasure.blogspot.com/2006/09/hi-this-is-our-victor...
Old Brick House in Florence, AL There's no historical marker in front of this house, and I can't find any info using online resources other than someone calling it the oldest house in Florence (which I can't confirm). Any info would be appreciated. It's located at the corner of E. Limestone & S. Oak
Gideon Morgan House - Kingston, TN According to a historic marker located inside the old county courthouse museum next to a painting of this home: This beautiful home, which stands on the corner of Cumberland and Kentucky streets, directly across from the historic Roane County Courthouse, is the oldest house in Roane County. Gideon Morgan, a patriot in the Revolutionary War from Massachusetts, was born in 1751 and arrived in Kingston in 1808. He built the house between 1811 and 1813 and opened an "ordinary" which was a combination of a public house, hotel, general store, and livery stable. This home served in this capacity for years during the early days of Kingston and later as a private home. It was aquired by William B. Ladd in 1936 in poor condition and was completely restored. It has been lovingly maintained by Ladd's daughter, Mildred Ladd Delaney and her husband Robert Delaney for many years. The home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
John Frost House, Cottonport This two story brick house is near Brentwood, TN along Old Smyrna rd. in Williamson county. The home is on the National Register of Historic Places From the Historical Marker: Cottonport stands on the site of Mayfield Station, a fort constructed as protection from Indian raids. Built on the site of an Indian town, the station was attacked by Indians in 1788. John Frost, later a captain in the War of 1812, came here from Newberry, South Carolina. In the early 1800's. While building his brick home, he lived in a log house believed to be the present smoke house. With the addition of a cotton gin, general store, grist mill and post office, Cottonport became the commercial center for the surrounding community.
Manuel Barrios Cottage - Pensacola, FL Dating back to 1888, the Manuel Barrios Cottage is part of the Historic Pensacola Village. This part of the multi-venue museum complex demonstrates Pensacola life of the 1920s.
Rutledge House - Blountville, TN Along the main street in historic downtown Blountville are several historic properties in a row. This one is next door to the Deery Inn, the most famous building in town. On the left is a black metal gate. There is a marker on that gate that they were designed by Adolph Cluss, and displayed at the Smithsonian from 1879-1910 and then brought here in the 1940s by Virginia Caldwell. On the right there's a historic marker for hall-of-fame long bow fiddler Ralph Blizard. UPDATE: I have since learned that the Traditional Appalachian Musical Heritage Association which was founded by Ralph Blizzard plans on converting this house into the Ralph Blizard Bluegrass Museum.
Boyhood Home (and smokehouse) of Nathan Bedford Forrest Disclaimer before we get started: I recognize that Forrest (and the confederate flag) are controversial. After the Civil War, Forrest started the Klan but some people claim that his intentions at the time were not racist. I do not take a stand on the issue but I don't have a tolerance for racism. My goal is to photographically document historic or significant sites in the area. Forrest was born to William and Mariam Beck Forrest in Chapel Hill, NC in 1821. In 1830, the family purchased this log cabin and lived here for about 3 years before moving to Mississippi. A few years ago, the home was purchased by the local chapter of Sons of Confederate Veterans. Their goal has been to restore the property to its original condition. There is a sign out front that asks for a $5 donation to help with the upkeep. Once a year, they have a fundraiser event with period costumes and demonstrations. I was actually unaware of this place as I was driving the back roads and looking for something else. I suppose his controversial nature has caused this historic site to not be listed in any brochures or tour guides. I had heard that the house where he was born was long gone.
Boyhood Home of Nathan Bedford Forrest Disclaimer before we get started: I recognize that Forrest (and the confederate flag) are controversial. After the Civil War, Forrest started the Klan but some people claim that his intentions at the time were not racist. I do not take a stand on the issue but I don't have a tolerance for racism. My goal is to photographically document historic or significant sites in the area. Forrest was born to William and Mariam Beck Forrest in Chapel Hill, NC in 1821. In 1830, the family purchased this log cabin and lived here for about 3 years before moving to Mississippi. A few years ago, the home was purchased by the local chapter of Sons of Confederate Veterans. Their goal has been to restore the property to its original condition. There is a sign out front that asks for a $5 donation to help with the upkeep. Once a year, they have a fundraiser event with period costumes and demonstrations. I was actually unaware of this place as I was driving the back roads and looking for something else. I suppose his controversial nature has caused this historic site to not be listed in any brochures or tour guides. I had heard that the house where he was born was long gone.
Boyhood Home of Nathan Bedford Forrest Disclaimer before we get started: I recognize that Forrest (and the confederate flag) are controversial. After the Civil War, Forrest started the Klan but some people claim that his intentions at the time were not racist. I do not take a stand on the issue but I don't have a tolerance for racism. My goal is to photographically document historic or significant sites in the area. Forrest was born to William and Mariam Beck Forrest in Chapel Hill, NC in 1821. In 1830, the family purchased this log cabin and lived here for about 3 years before moving to Mississippi. A few years ago, the home was purchased by the local chapter of Sons of Confederate Veterans. Their goal has been to restore the property to its original condition. There is a sign out front that asks for a $5 donation to help with the upkeep. Once a year, they have a fundraiser event with period costumes and demonstrations. I was actually unaware of this place as I was driving the back roads and looking for something else. I suppose his controversial nature has caused this historic site to not be listed in any brochures or tour guides. I had heard that the house where he was born was long gone. Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tn-bucket-list/ The Ultimate And Definitive Bucket List For Everyone In Tennessee
Anderson Townhouse - Blountville, TN The front log cabin part of this house dates to somewhere between 1792-95. The back portion was added in 1826. Today, this building and several other structures on either side of the street along the Old Stage Road are on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Blountville Historic District. Today, the center is home to the Traditional Appalachian Musical Heritage Association. There's a historical marker added during the country's Bicentennial Celebration. You can see the marker here: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/...
Cravens House - Lookout Mountain The Cravens House is the oldest surviving structure on Lookout Mountain, and was the home of Robert Cravens, a pioneer Chattanooga Industrialist. The home is located on a shelf-like ledge of the eastern slope of Lookout Mountain and provides a great overlook of Chattanooga. The house was a major focal point in the Civil War "Battle Above the Clouds" on Nov. 24, 1863. Today, the house is under the oversight of the National Park Service as part of the National Battlefield and free tours are offered on Saturday and Sunday Afternoons. See the historical marker here: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/... Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/hidden-historic-tn-gems/ These 11 Hidden Gems In Tennessee Hold Historic Keys To The Past
Cravens House - Lookout Mountain The Cravens House is the oldest surviving structure on Lookout Mountain, and was the home of Robert Cravens, a pioneer Chattanooga Industrialist. The home is located on a shelf-like ledge of the eastern slope of Lookout Mountain and provides a great overlook of Chattanooga. The house was a major focal point in the Civil War "Battle Above the Clouds" on Nov. 24, 1863. Today, the house is under the oversight of the National Park Service as part of the National Battlefield and free tours are offered on Saturday and Sunday Afternoons. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Cravens-Coleman House. See the historical marker here: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/...
Mooreland - Brentwood, TN Here is an example of an old Majestic Home that has been repurposed after a commercial development has sprawled up around it. Revolutionary War General Robert Irvin settled here in 1807. Work began on this house in 1838 by his son Robert Irvin Moore and their family lived in the house until 1944. During the Civil War, both sides used the Greek Revival home as a hospital. Today, this area around Franklin Pike (US31) in Brentwood is home to many businesses. I didn't even realize until recently this old home was here among all the office complexes here. In 1985, the home was restored by Koger Properties and they use it for their offices. See the historical marker here: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/... This photo has been used without permission, violating the creative commons license here: backgroundchecks.org/25-safest-cities-in-tennessee-2016.html The Safest Cities in Tennessee 2016 Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/best-raise-family/ Here Are The 10 Best Cities In Tennessee To Raise A Family
Mississippi Governor's Mansion The Mississippi Governor's Mansion is a historic residence in Jackson, MS, located at 300 East Capitol Street. Since it's first use in 1842, It is the second oldest executive residence in the U.S. that has been continuously occupied as a gubernatorial residence (only Virginia's Executive Mansion is older). In 1969, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Then, It was designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of Interior in 1975, an honor previously bestowed on only one other state gubernatorial residence. The mansion was also declared a Mississippi Landmark in 1985. William Nichols designed the Mansion in the period’s most popular architectural style – Greek Revival. Architectural historians consider the mansion to be one of the finest surviving examples of the Greek Revival style in the U.S. In 1840, here is how Nichols described his plans to the state legislature: "The building will be seventy-two by fifty-three feet. The ground or basement story is eight feet high and is divided into servants’ room, store rooms, and cellar. On the principal floor the main entrance is from a portico twenty-eight by twelve feet, into an octagon vestibule, which communicates with a drawing room fifty by twenty-four feet, with a dining room which by means of folding doors may be made of the same size, and with the great staircase leading to the upper floor; … the upper floor will contain four spacious chambers, a wardrobe and a private staircase, communicating with the basement story. The portico on the principal front will be supported by columns of the Corinthian order. In finishing the building, it is intended to avoid a profusion of ornament, and to adhere to a plain simplicity, as best comporting with the dignity of the state." After about seven decades of use, it started to fall into disrepair that in 1908 newly elected Governor Edmund Noel refused to move in. The legislature approved funding for renovations and many internal changes were made. About another seven decades passed and the story repeated itself in 1971 and Governor John Bell Williams had to move out for a second major renovation. Mark your calendars for 2035 when it might be due to happen again. For a more complete history: mdah.state.ms.us/museum/mhistory.html
W.C. Handy Home and Museum - Florence, AL Here is the description of the log home which later became a museum on the Florence website: "Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the red clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills my hometown, Florence." William Christopher Handy begins his autobiography, Father of the Blues, with these words. W.C. Handy was born in a small log cabin in Florence on November 16, 1873. Handy became famous for his blues compositions such as "Memphis Blues" & "St. Louis Blues". He was also a musician, band conductor, and author. The museum houses a collection of memorabilia, musical instruments, personal papers and original sheet music. Handy's famous trumpet and his personal piano are just a few of the items on display. W.C. Handy died in New York in 1958. His hometown of Florence honors the legacy of the "Father of the Blues" with a birthday party at the museum each November 16th and with the week-long W.C. Handy Music Festival during the summer.
The Futuro - UFO House - Pensacola Beach, FL From 1968 to 1978 the Finnish company Oy Polykem Ab sold houses like this one known as Futuro II designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. The prefabricated home was assembled in their facility and then flown by helicopter to this spot in Pensacola Beach. The house has one bedroom, one bathroom, a kitchen and dining area, and a 23 foot long couch that's by several of the windows. Admit it, you secretly wish this was your house. Not only is it cool, there's a second reason to love it. Round houses are better able to withstand strong wind as this has outlasted Hurricanes Ivan, Dennis, and any other storm that has come through the Santa Rosa area. Today, the home is a local landmark, and you can tell the owner embraces the spaceship look with the aliens in the windows. It's located along Via De Luna, which is the most important road through town and used to be highway US98.
J.C. Campbell House - Marion, VA This house is a contributing property to the Marion Historic District listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Here is the mention of this house on the district's writeup: "Many of the larger houses, typically built in various interpretations of the Colonial-Revival style were built in the early 1900s by the various industrial entrepreneurs who prospered in the early 20th century. These houses were usually based in architectural designs or published plans and rely less on local tradition. The J.C. Campbell House (119-0012-0008) at 205 West Main Street was built in 1906 by the president of the U.S. Spruce Lumber Company as a showcase for the natural beauty of the local lumber resources."
The Old Governors Mansion - Frankfort, KY According to the historical marker: Home of 33 governors during their terms of office and scene of elaborate political and social functions, 1797 to 1914. Thomas Metcalfe, who laid the stone foundation in 1797, later occupied the mansion as the tenth KY governor, 1828-32. Not used from 1914 to 1956. Then it was renovated and made residence for the Lieutenant Governors. The mansion is reputed to be the oldest official executive residence officially still in use in the United States, as the mansion is the official residence of the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. The last actual occupants of the mansion was Lieutenant Governor Steve Henry and his wife Heather French Henry. Since Henry in 2003, Lieutenant Governors have chosen not to live in the mansion but to maintain residences in their hometowns and travel to Frankfort as needed. Because of this, the mansion has been turned over to the Kentucky Historical Society. Although the historical marker doesn't mention, according to legend there was also a bricklayer for the mansion, Robert P. Letcher, who later too became governor from 1840 to 1844. The Home barely survived fires and neglect through the years. It has undergone several style changes as evidenced by some Victorian design elements that were added to the original Georgian plan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Memorial Hall a.k.a. Chevy Chase - Jackson, TN Originally, this was land that belonged to Confederate Colonel William H. Stephens in 1824, known as Willow Banks. This home was built in 1918 by Jackson Sun newspaper owner Clarence Pigford. Since 1952, the land and the home have been owned by Jackson's First Presbyterian Church who built their church building next door. Update: This Home and the church have been added to the National Register of Historic Places in Dec. 2016. Read more about it in this article from the Jackson Sun: www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2015/12/11/chevy-chas...
Forks of Cypress replica - Florence, AL Forks of Cypress was a Greek Revival plantation house near Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was designed by architect William Nichols for James Jackson and his wife, Sally Moore Jackson. Construction was completed in 1830. It was the only Greek Revival house in Alabama to feature a two-story colonnade around the entire house, composed of twenty-four Ionic columns. The name was derived from the fact that Big Cypress Creek and Little Cypress Creek border the plantation and converge near the site of the main house. Although the main house was destroyed by fire on June 6, 1966 (6/6/66), the site was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on April 14, 1992 and the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1997. What makes it unusual to an unknowing passerby is a field with a bunch of columns in a rectangle. When the home caught fire, the entire mansion burned down, leaving the columns as a perimeter. According to legend, since Jackson raised horses, the columns had fire-retardant ground horsehair as an ingredient. Before making my visit, I did not realize that the remaining columns were on private property and you can't get closer than a view like this from the road. Some people, such as a couple of my flickr friends, have gotten advance permission to get a closer view. Even if you can't get close to the original, you can get up close to a replica. 5 miles away in downtown Florence is a replice which was built to be used as a Regions Bank branch. Another nearby site of local lore was recently demolished. The "Ghost Bridge" was the home to many local legends and on the original plantation property. For more info, look here: bridgehunter.com/al/lauderdale/61/
Forks of Cypress remains Forks of Cypress was a Greek Revival plantation house near Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was designed by architect William Nichols for James Jackson and his wife, Sally Moore Jackson. Construction was completed in 1830. It was the only Greek Revival house in Alabama to feature a two-story colonnade around the entire house, composed of twenty-four Ionic columns. The name was derived from the fact that Big Cypress Creek and Little Cypress Creek border the plantation and converge near the site of the main house. Although the main house was destroyed by fire on June 6, 1966 (6/6/66), the site was placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on April 14, 1992 and the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1997. What makes it unusual to an unknowing passerby is a field with a bunch of columns in a rectangle. When the home caught fire, the entire mansion burned down, leaving the columns as a perimeter. According to legend, since Jackson raised horses, the columns had fire-retardant ground horsehair as an ingredient. Before making my visit, I did not realize that the remaining columns were on private property and you can't get closer than a view like this from the road. Some people, such as a couple of my flickr friends, have gotten advance permission to get a closer view. Even if you can't get close to the original, you can get up close to a replica. 5 miles away in downtown Florence is a replice which was built to be used as a Regions Bank branch. Another nearby site of local lore was recently demolished. The "Ghost Bridge" was the home to many local legends and on the original plantation property. For more info, look here: bridgehunter.com/al/lauderdale/61/
1805 Charles Lavalle House - Historic Pensacola Village Seen as part of the Historic Pensacola Village tour. In the foreground is a collection of tools used by the in-costume guides. The house was added to the National register of Historic Places in 1971. Here's an article for further reading: Construction Makes Lavalle Home Unusual articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-07-22/business/89072031...
The Painted Lady - Jackson, TN This elegant old Victorian house near the central business district of Jackson has been converted into a restaurant. "The Painted Lady" has apparently been the name of the house for a while and the cafe that opened up on the inside is known as "Lunch at the Lady."
The Cannonball House - Blountville, TN Located in the historic district in Blountville, the Miller-Haynes House was fired upon during the Battle of Blountville on September 22, 1863. From this picture, I can't see any of the damage, but there are examples on the Civil War Trails marker, which you can see here: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/...
Old House in Salem, VA That powerline just had to ruin everything! Located on N. Broad St.
Lear-Rocheblave House As part of the Historic Pensacola Village, this house dates back to the 1890's. Here is their write-up: The Lear-Rocheblave House interprets a middle-class family home during the late Victorian Period, 1890-1910. Once owned by Benito Rocheblave, a tug-boat captain, the house and collection pieces reflect Pensacola's connection to the Gulf. This is the fourth and final house museum of the guided public tour.
Squincy Bird Cabin According to the plaque on the restored cabin, this was originally located in Cherokee, NC as it was the cabin of Chief Squincy Bird. Today, it is seen along the Reflection Riding Trail at the Chattanooga Nature Center.
Belle Vue I 1795 Log Home The following text is taken from the Bellevue Harpeth Historic Association website where they also have some "before" photos: The Belle Vue I log cabin was built by Abram Louis DeMoss in 1795 on a hill overlooking the Harpeth River on what is now Morton Mill Road. Later, Riverside was built next to the cabin. Riverside was destroyed by fire, so in order to preserve the history for future generations, Dolly Carter (wife of descendant Frank Carter), donated the cabin to the Bellevue Harpeth Historic Association. BHHA then contracted with Leatherwood to dismantle, label and reconstruct the cabin at Red Caboose Park on Colice Jeanne Road. Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/nashville/nashville-liv... 15 Reasons Living In Nashville Is The Best – And Everyone Should Move Here
Southall-Moore house - Florence, AL This house in downtown Florence across from Wilson Park is listed on the National register of historic places along with two nearby houses as "209, 217, and 223 E. Tuscaloosa St."
Nathan Brandon House - Dover, TN As I was driving around Dover, I saw this sign signifying this house belonged to Lt. Col. Nathan Brandon and it dated back to the 1870s. Aside from the sign, I could not tell if the house is meant to be a museum or if the current owners wanted to point out the significance.
Mabry-Hazen House - Knoxville, TN From Wikipedia: The Mabry-Hazen House is an historic home located on a 5-acre site at 1711 Dandridge Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee. Also known as the Evelyn Hazen House or the Joseph Alexander Mabry, Jr. House, when constructed in 1858 for Joseph Alexander Mabry, Jr. it was named Pine Hill Cottage. The house was in what was then the separate town of East Knoxville. Stylistically, the house exhibits both Italianate and Greek Revival elements. Having operated as a museum since the death of Evelyn Hazen, it has the good fortune of containing its original furniture, as well as a collection of antique china and crystal. The present site consists of 8 acres on top of Mabry Hill. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabry-Hazen_House Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/tn-move/ 12 Reasons You Should Move To Tennessee RIGHT NOW or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/unlimited-tn-cities/ Everyone In Tennessee Must Visit These Bigger Cities For Their Unlimited Options
Brown-Daly-Horne House - Pulaski, TN Built in 1855 and purchased by Governor John C. Brown in 1869, it is the best example of Queen Ann style in Giles County, and one of the finest in the state. The Daly’s celebrated their 20th anniversary in their new home in 1901. From 1918 to 1979, the Oscar Horne family owned the property. Today, the home is used as a bank, which means you can walk around inside during regular business hours. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/underrated-tn-2/ 11 Reasons Why Tennessee Is The Most Underrated State In The US
Boyhood Home of Carl Perkins This house is located along highway TN78 on the south side of Tiptonville, TN. Over the last decade, the area has been transformed into the city's visitor center with the addition of an old Illinois Central Caboose and a replica train station. TN78 has been renamed the Carl Perkins Highway. Perkins was born in Tiptonville on April 9, 1932. This photo has made Explore peaking at #412.
James White's Fort - Knoxville, TN according to Wikipedia: White's Fort, was an 18th-century settlement that became Knoxville, TN. The name also refers to the fort, itself. The settlement of White's Fort began in 1786 by James White, a militia officer during the American Revolutionary War. When William Blount, the territorial governor of the Southwest Territory, moved the territorial capital to White's Fort in 1791, he renamed it Knoxville in honor of Henry Knox, the American Revolutionary War general and Washington's Secretary of War. The fort itself began when James White built a cabin near what is now the corner of State Street and Clinch Avenue. This cabin soon became the center of a cluster of fortified log structures known as White's Fort. The original cabin later became the kitchen of the Kennedy House, which was built in the 1830s. In 1906, when the Kennedy house was demolished for development, Isaiah Ford bought the log structure and moved it to Woodlawn Park. It was purchased again in 1960 by the City Association of Women's Clubs; in 1968, the timbers were reconstructed as part of the fort. The fort still stands on a bluff near its original location. Seven log cabins and the stockade fence remain. The cabins house pioneer artifacts and furnishings. For more info: www.jameswhitesfort.org/history/
Home of Casey Jones - Jackson, TN According to the historic marker: This is the house where John Luther Jones was living, at the time of his death at the throttle of his engine, "Old 382," at Vaughn, Miss., April 30, 1900. A folk song has immortalized his name. For years, the home operated as a museum to Jones and railroad memorabilia. Originally, this home was located at 211 W. Chester St. and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1980, the home was unlisted as the home was relocated. When I look up that address on a map today, I see that the US70 / 45 Bypass is located, so I bet the house was moved to stay open as a museum and avoid demolition. When this home and museum was relocated around 1978, so was the Shaw General Store. The new tourist stop became Casey Jones Village and it is one of the top tourist stops in Tennessee today. Now, if you tour the railroad museum, you can still see the inside of the Casey Jones home.
James Weldon Johnson Home - Nashville This home is located on D.B.Todd Blvd just down the road from Fisk University. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Fisk University Historic District. According to the historic marker: This Dutch Colonial house was built in 1931 for James Weldon Johnson. He served as U.S. Consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua, editor of the New York Age, and field secretary of the NAACP. Johnson's poem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, is renowned as the Negro National Anthem. Johnson occupied the Adam K. Spence Chair of Creative Literature and taught creative writing at Fisk University from 1931 until his death in 1938.
Carter Mansion - Elizabethton, TN From the historic Marker: "The Mansion" was built before 1780 by John Carter and his son Landon. John Carter was chairman of the Watauga Association, a court of five men elected by settlers of the Watauga County in May 1772. "to govern and direct for the common good of all the people." Carter County is named for Landon Carter and Elizabethon is named for his wife Elizabeth Maclin. The family cemetery is located to the east of the house. Also of note: This is the oldest frame house in Tennessee. Little is known about John Carter as many records have since been destroyed by fire. Landon Carter is also the great-grandfather of brothers Alf & Robert Taylor who ran against each other for Governor. The property is also on the National Register of Historic Places. For more info about this house: www.oldhouseonline.com/carter-mansion-tenneesees-oldest-f... Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/historic-houses-tn/ Everyone In Tennessee Should Visit These 20 Houses For Their Incredible Past
Edward Washington King House - Bristol, TN Constructed in 1903, the E.W. King House is one of the few remaining homes from the beginning of the 20th Century in Bristol, and is an excellent example of Queen Anne architecture. The hill was the site of Fort Shelby which was an important Revolutionary War outpost. Today, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For more info: www.bristolhistoricalassociation.com/ewkinghouse.html Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/hidden-tn-oases/ Escape To These 10 Hidden Oases In Tennessee To Find Peace And Quiet
Old house in Blountville, TN The house at 3379 Highway 126 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Blountville Historic District. Otherwise, I have no more info.
Log Cabin - Huntingdon, TN This cabin containing Chestnut logs dates back to the early 1800s in nearby Benton County. It was relocated to Huntingdon in 2005 and placed in a property along US70 adjacent to Thomas Park
Site of the first County Court in Carroll County Here is the historic marker: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/... The home of R.E.C. Dougherty stood on the foundations of this house. Here, as chairman, he held the first meeting of the Carroll County Court on March 11, 1822. This is located along Main St. (US70A) in McLemoresville, TN.
Ambrose House in East Nashville Located in the East End neighborhood, this historic house is located on S 12th Ave between Russell St. and Holly St. This property is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the East Nashville Historic District. Architect Hugh Cathcart Thompson designed the house (He is most famous for designing the historic Ryman Auditorium.)
Elvis in Nashville - Col. Tom Parker's Office Built in 1935, this house along Gallatin Rd (US31E) in Madison was once the home and office of Colonel Tom Parker and the headquarters of one of the most successful partnership in the history of American entertainment. until 2013, the house served as a law office. Late that year, it went for sale on ebay for over $150,000. For more info: www.elvispresleyfansofnashville.com/elvis-presley-news/co... UPDATE This property has been added to Historic Nashville Inc. 2015 Nashville Nine. Every year, the Nashville Nine highlights historic properties that are threatened. See the press release here: www.historicnashvilleinc.org/resources/nashville-9/2015/2... UPDATE 2 This home is being taken apart brick by brick so that it can be assembled somewhere else. See this video for the complete story.
Neat old house - Lewisburg, TN In Lewisburg, this house is at the corner of Church St. & Hill St. It is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (However, The house across the street is. If you have any more info, I'd love to hear it.
W.C. Handy Home and Museum - Beale St. Memphis According to the sign: The Memphis Home of W.C. Handy. Musician - Composer - Publisher. 1873-1958. Father of the Blues In this house was born Memphis Blues, St. Louis Blues, Beale Street Blues and other great songs. The house was moved here from 659 Janette Street in 1983 and restored by the Blues Foundation. Museum operated by Heritage Tours. The home and museum isn't directly on Beale St. Instead there is a sign and a gate on Beale inviting people back to see it. Would you like to see more photos from Beale street? Check out the Beale Street gallery
The Vaughan House - Manchester, TN
John Wesley Work Home at Fisk University According to the historic marker: In 1937, this Victorian-style house became the home of John W. Work III. A teacher and composer for 39 years, he served his alma mater by enriching the Fisk musical traditions. Director of the Jubilee Singers, Work III, a serious composer, completed more than 100 compositions. He was not only an acclaimed composer and choral conductor, but also a recognized author, educator and ethnomusicologist. His father, John W. Work II, composer of the Fisk alma mater, "The Gold and Blue," was known as rescuer and preservationist of Negro religious music. Work II's book, Folk Songs of the American Negro, was one of the first extensive studies on the origin and development of religious African-American music be a descendant of an ex-slave who lived during the time many of the songs has their beginnings. Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.tngenweb.org/
John Oliver Cabin - Cades Cove According to the Smoky Mountains National Park historic marker: Among the first Euro-Americans to settle in Cades Cove, John and Lucretia Oliver arrived here in 1818. Probably by the early 1820s they had completed the 1 1/2 story cabin that you see here. Though its exact construction date is not known, it is one of the oldest structures in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Members of the Oliver family lived here for more than a century.
Mary Kate Patterson Home - LaVergne, TN West of the Old Nashville turnpike stands the home of Mary Kate Patterson, a Confederate spy. She assisted Capt. Henry B. Shaw's Coleman's Scouts, a Confederate cavalry unit and spy network that served the Army of Tennessee, from 1862 to 1865. She befriended Federals and obtained passes to Nashville, where she secured supplies and messages to smuggle to the Scouts in her buggy's false bottom. Her brother, Everard Patterson, also served in the Scouts. Her family sheltered and fed Confederate soldiers, signaling them by an arrangement of louvers and lanterns in the windows when it was safe to come in for medical help and hot meals. She was among the last to see neighbor and fellow spy Sam Davis before he was captured and killed in November 1863. She lived at this house until her death in 1931. For her full story, check this story from the Murfreesboro Post: www.murfreesboropost.com/the-unsinkable-mary-kate-cms-27343
Stone Hall - Nashville, TN Stone Hall was built by Dempsey Weaver Cantrell soon after the "1916 Great Fire" of Edgefield in Nashville. The home is constructed of hand-hewn pure dove limestone quarried on the Cantrell farm. Stone Hall takes its name from the sixteenth century home of the Cantrell ancestors in England. (Of course, there is a double meaning since the home is made of limestone and it overlooks the Stones River.) Today, the 1918 Colonial Revival home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was acquired by Metro Parks in 2007 and connects to the Stones River Greenway.
Monthaven - Hendersonville, TN Monthaven, also known as the Leonard B. Fite House, is a historic home in Hendersonville, TN and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The exact date of it's construction is not known and has multiple additions. It was used as a field hospital during the Civil War with bloodstains soaked into the poplar floors. A few skirmishes occurred on the property as well. The historic building is now home to galleries and offices of the Hendersonville Arts Council. For the full story: hendersonvillearts.org/wordpress/?page_id=15
Murfreesboro East Main: Gen. Palmer House This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District in Murfreesboro, TN. Here is a description of this house from the brochure entitled "Explore Historic Murfreesboro - A Walking Tour" 434 East Main Street Confederate General Joseph Palmer built this National Register–listed house during Reconstruction, circa 1870. Former state representative and mayor of Murfreesboro, Palmer organized a company of infantry and was eventually promoted to brigadier-general during the war. After the war, General Palmer had his home built in the Italianate style, the elements of which can be seen in the paired, arched windows; wide eaves with decorative brackets; and metal grill work on the front porch. In addition to being a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District, it is also independently listed on the National Register.
Murfreesboro East Main: 446 E Main This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District in Murfreesboro, TN. Here is a description of this house from the brochure entitled "Explore Historic Murfreesboro - A Walking Tour" 446 East Main Street A Reconstruction-era dwelling, this two-story brick house was built in 1869 by J. C. and Lizzie Alice Leiper. In 1881, Captain James Clayton purchased the house and added modern plumbing and Victorian details. His son updated it by adding the Neoclassical porch with square Ionic columns in 1910.
Murfreesboro East Main: 450 E. Main This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District in Murfreesboro, TN. Here is a description of this house from the brochure entitled "Explore Historic Murfreesboro - A Walking Tour" 450 East Main Street A two-story portico with fluted Ionic columns, an entrance with a fanlight and sidelights, and side porches characterize this home as a textbook example of the Neoclassical style. Nashville architects Fletcher and Bell designed this home in 1910 for George and Tempe Swoope Darrow. Hello to anyone who found this here: or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/murfreesboro-living-tn/ How This Small Tennessee Town Became One Of The Best Places To Live In The U.S.
Murfreesboro East Main: 435 E. Main This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District in Murfreesboro, TN. Here is a description of this house from the brochure entitled "Explore Historic Murfreesboro - A Walking Tour" 435 East Main Street The Clardy House was built in 1898 for J. T. Rather, a former mayor of Murfreesboro. This residence is an example of Richardsonian Romanesque style, featuring three wide, rounded arches supported by squat columns on the porch. Operated as the Clardy Guest House from 1948 to 2000, it was one of the state’s oldest bed and breakfast inns. More info from The Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County: There is a story that Mr. Rather, afraid of fire, had firecrackers placed in the walls when the house was built, the idea being that any fire would set the fireworks off. It remained a private home until 1948, when Jack & Henrietta Moore converted it to a guest house. In 1954, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Clardy purchased the house at auction and continued it as a guest house.
Murfreesboro East Main: 425 E. Main This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District in Murfreesboro, TN. Here is a description of this house from the brochure entitled "Explore Historic Murfreesboro - A Walking Tour" 425 East Main Street Built circa 1849 by Ivy J. C. Haynes, this house was remodeled after 1870 to reflect the popular Italianate style that dominated architecture from about 1850 to 1880. Paired rounded arches, brackets, a bay window, and the projecting tower covering the entry are typical of the Italianate style.
Murfreesboro East Main: 331 E. Main This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District in Murfreesboro, TN. Here is a description of this house from the brochure entitled "Explore Historic Murfreesboro - A Walking Tour" 331 East Main Street The windows—different shapes and sizes—draw attention to this 1896 house built for Murfreesboro jeweler William R. Bell. The elegant oval stained glass window beneath the Neoclassical porch is overshadowed by the projecting Palladian window on the first floor, above which are paired arched windows with keystones. On the roof, an elaborate round window, finials, cresting, and towering chimneys add to the picturesque quality of the dwelling.
Murfreesboro East Main: 340 E. Main This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District in Murfreesboro, TN. Here is a description of this house from the brochure entitled "Explore Historic Murfreesboro - A Walking Tour" 340 East Main Street The popular American Foursquare was built from about 1900 to 1925. The house plan was practical for town lots because it provided a maximum amount of floor space in a small area. These residences could be of frame, brick, or stucco with hipped or pyramid rooflines, dormers, and wide overhanging eaves. Different style characteristics, such as Classical Revival or Craftsman, are seen in the windows, porch columns, and eave details, making each house unique.
Murfreesboro East Main: 346 E. Main This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District in Murfreesboro, TN. Here is a description of this house from the brochure entitled "Explore Historic Murfreesboro - A Walking Tour" 346 East Main Street Charles Byrn, a hardware merchant, built this Queen Anne–styled house in 1903. Designed by Nashville architect Thomas J. Moore, the house incorporated many modern conveniences, including five bathrooms, a game room, gymnasium, and both gas and electric lights.
Murfreesboro East Main:: 628 E. Main This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District in Murfreesboro, TN. Here is a description of this house from the brochure entitled "Explore Historic Murfreesboro - A Walking Tour" 628 East Main Street The gable-front and wing emerged during the last half of the 19th century as a popular folk housing form. The gable-front may be either to the right or left, and generally a porch is placed within the “L” formed by the design. Its ease of construction and affordability made it a popular building choice in many towns. Serenity, built during the 1850s, is a gable-front and wing home constructed in brick and featuring a stick-and-ball spindle porch frieze supported by wooden rope twist columns. This type of decorative millwork would have been produced in Murfreesboro’s own lumber mills during the latter half of the 19th century. Residences at 618 and 407 East Main Street also reflect the gable-front and wing house form.
Murfreesboro East Main: 537 E. Main This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the East Main Street Historic District in Murfreesboro, TN. Here is a description of this house from the brochure entitled "Explore Historic Murfreesboro - A Walking Tour" 537 East Main Street The combination of Queen Anne and Classical Revival elements makes this house one of the most architecturally entertaining properties on East Main. The irregular roof line, gazebo front porch, and steeply pitched roof are features of the Queen Anne style in this house, while paired columns, a pedimented portico, and surrounds with bullseyes are Classical Revival influences. A stained glass window with keystone is yet another detail of interest. Hello to anyone who found this here: or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/murfreesboro-living-tn/ How This Small Tennessee Town Became One Of The Best Places To Live In The U.S.
Conway Twitty Mansion - Hendersonville, TN Country Music legend Conway Twitty had his mansion built in Hendersonville, TN in the early 1980s. At the time, he had a museum and gift shop also open on the property, an entertainment complex known as Twitty City. Fans were welcomed to walk around the gardens in front of his house. Twitty City remained open until his death in 1993. The property was purchased by the religious television station Trinity Broadcasting Network to create Trinity Music City. Trinity still allows visitors to walk around the gardens and offers free tours of the mansion. My guide said they get a good mix of Conway's fans and TBN fans. Most of Twitty's belongings were auctioned off, so only one of his items, a desk, remains inside the mansion. Many of the remaining interior rooms are used for TV show filming. Around Christmas, they string up an impressive display of holiday lights.
William C. Martin House - Dalton, GA The William C. Martin House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At one time, it was a city library but now is an office building.
House of Mayors - Murfreesboro, TN This residence at 500 N. Spring St. in Murfreesboro is usually called the "House of Mayors" as four Mayors lived here: Ingram Collier, Newton B. Collier, James H Crichlow, Jr. & N. Collier Crichlow. There is already another Collier-Crichlow house in town, so this one was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Collier-Lane-Crichlow House. The following description was taken from the brochure entitled "in the Footsteps of Notable Women; a Self-Guided Tour of Rutherford County" Built in about 1850, this house was purchased in 1858 by Jesse and Newton Collier for their widowed mother, Martha Covington Collier. Ten years later, a nephew of the Collier brothers, Ingram Collier Jr., bought the house for his sister, Martha Collier Lane, and her husband, William. Their daughter, Emily “Emma” Lane (1847–1923), kept a diary from 1864 to 1866 (now housed in the Albert Gore Research Center at MTSU). Extraordinary for her insights into the war, Lane lamented that it had brought “trouble, sorrow, and desolation to the hearthstones of so many.” Emma Lane and her husband, James Crichlow, raised their family here. For a thorough description, here is the nomination form for the National Register: pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/nrhp/text/78002629.PDF 2023 update: This house is scheduled to be torn down: www.newschannel5.com/news/historic-house-of-mayors-schedu...
Akin Log House - LaVergne, TN The following description is taken from the brochure entitled "A Traveler's Guide to Rutherford County's Log Architecture" Akin Log House Bicentennial Park (La Vergne City Park) beside City Hall - 5093 Murfreesboro Road The City of La Vergne acquired this hewn red cedar log house from a local family in order to provide residents with a visual reminder of their pioneer past as well as to preserve a rare surviving example of the early built environment of the area. This historic one room dwelling, originally located off Stones River Road, had been obscured by several modern frame additions over the years and was not identified as a separate pioneer structure until after demolition had started on the larger house. Now standing in Bicentennial Park near a 19th-century graveyard, the log building is being carefully restored to serve as an educational experience for both members of the community and visitors alike.
Eversong cabin - Nashville, TN Eversong is located at Stone Hall which became a Nashville park in 2007. Here is the story from a marker: Eversong was moved here by Dempsey Weaver Cantrell from Williamson County in the 1930s. If it had been at its present location overlooking the Stones River in the early 1800s, Eversong would have provided a view of Andrew Jackson's racetrack, store, and tavern just across the river. Dempsey's wife Nora, who was poet laureate of Tennessee and called her poems "songs," said that when she went down to the cabin by the river she "ever had a song in her heart," so she called it Eversong.
Cragfont Cragfont, located in Castalian Springs, TN, was the home of War of 1812 Brigadier General and Memphis founder James Winchester. Construction was started in 1798 and completed in 1802 by artisans from his home state of Maryland. It is listed with the National Register of Historic Places and is open for tours. It is owned by the State of Tennessee and administered in partnership with the Tennessee Historical Commission by the non-profit group Friends of Cragfont. At the time the home was completed, it was the largest home in Middle Tennessee. The exterior is made of Limestone quarried nearby. The most distinctive feature may be the seven six-pointed metal stars. The stars are not only for decoration, as they are caps on poles that span the entire mansion to hold it together in case of earthquake. www.cragfont.net/History.html
Richardson House - Fisk University This is now the Alumni building at Fisk University. Here is the house's history from the historic marker: This house, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1905 as the home of Reuben B. and Mary Knowles Richardson. Richardson, who served as Capt. of Eng. Co. No. 4 from 1893 to 1923, was one of the first blacks to obtain this rank in Nashville. In 1923, Eng. Co. No. 4 moved from Woodland St. to 12th Ave. N. and Jefferson St., and became Eng. Co. No. II. In 1930, the name of the building housing that company was changed to Reuben B. Richardson Hall.
All that's left of Evergreen Place - Nashville For Nashville preservationists, there may not be a subject in recent memory as sore the demise of Evergreen Place. Originally, the property belonged to Thomas Craighead, a minister who founded Davidson Academy. Here, he build a log cabin which was eventually expanded to become a wood frame and brick Tennessee vernacular farmhouse. The property was sold a couple of times before the Civil War, but then it was inhabited by the same family for 125 years. When I was born, Evergreen Place was the oldest home in Nashville. In 1980, the widow of country music singer Jim Reeves purchased the property and operated a museum in him honor. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places. After the museum closed, the home remained vacant for 15 years. All the while, people clamored for somebody to buy it and fix it up. That never happened. Instead, a developer bought the property because it was at a prime location along Gallatin Pike (US31E). Knowing the old home was about to be turned into retail space, preservationists complained that people can't just come in and tear down history. The developers countered that nobody had stepped in for over a decade, so they might as well turn the area into something useful. The preservationists sued to prevent the tear-down, but the developers got tired of waiting and they tore it down anyway. Today, the location is a prominent home improvement store, albeit one that a few bitter locals will never visit. Behind a new bank, two log buildings remain and one is labelled as a carriage house. To keep people out, the new owners have put a chain-link fence around the pair - because it would be bad if someone damaged a piece of history! Apparently, it's too much trouble to take care of the tall grass here. Before you know it, someone is going to call this an eyesore and there will be plans to turn this space into a hot dog stand.
Bowen-Campbell House - Goodlettsville, TN According to Wikipedia: The Bowen-Campbell House, also known as the Bowen Plantation House, is a two-story, Federal style, brick house located in Goodlettsville, Sumner County, Tennessee. The house was built from 1787 to 1788 by Captain William Bowen, a veteran of Lord Dunmore's War of 1774, the French and Indian War of 1754 to 1763, and the American Revolutionary War who brought his family to the area in 1785. His son, William Russell Bowen, later lived in the house. His grandson, Brigadier General William Bowen Campbell who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1851 to 1853 and U.S. Congressman from Tennessee from 1837 to 1843, was born in the house in 1807. It is the oldest brick house in Middle Tennessee. The bricks were imported from Lexington, Kentucky. The original plantation area around the house is now the home of Moss-Wright Park. The Bowen-Campbell House Association as well as the Tennessee Historical Commission, restored the house in 1976. In 1977, the structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Archaeologists found the family cemetery on the property in 1995 and restored it in 1996. It is open for tours as part of Historic Mansker's Station.
Becky Cable House Fireplace & Stove - Cades Cove Cades Cove at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular destination in the United States most visited national park. The isolated valley was the home to many early settlers and today several of those sites are well preserved. An 11-mile, one-way loop road circles the cove, offering motorists the opportunity to sight-see the wildlife, scenic beauty and historic district structures on the National Register of Historic Places at a leisurely pace. Several historic structures from the cove have been relocated and are now near the Cable Mill. Leason Gregg purchased land from John Cable and built this house in 1879 with lumber from Cable Mill. It is believed to be the first all-frame house in the Cove. Originally located south of its present location on Forge Creek Road, it was used as a store and later as a residence and boarding house, known as Aunt Becky's House. Rooms in the middle and on the right was original to the building when it was used as a store. Then, a room to the left, a kitchen, the upstairs and a porch were added when it became a residence. The house never had indoor plumbing and heat was generated from the fireplace. Rebecca Cable, better known as 'Aunt Becky' to the Cove community, was born on Dec. 7, 1844 in Carter County, TN. One of nine children, she moved with her family to Cades Cove in 1868. She bought this house in 1887 with her brother Dan and lived here until her death in 1940 at the age of 96. Never married, she owned over 600 acres in the Cove and kept busy spinning, weaving, knitting, farming, tending store, taking in family boarders, and caring for her brother's children after he became ill.
Becky Cable House & fence - Cades Cove Cades Cove at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular destination in the United States most visited national park. The isolated valley was the home to many early settlers and today several of those sites are well preserved. An 11-mile, one-way loop road circles the cove, offering motorists the opportunity to sight-see the wildlife, scenic beauty and historic district structures on the National Register of Historic Places at a leisurely pace. Several historic structures from the cove have been relocated and are now near the Cable Mill. Leason Gregg purchased land from John Cable and built this house in 1879 with lumber from Cable Mill. It is believed to be the first all-frame house in the Cove. Originally located south of its present location on Forge Creek Road, it was used as a store and later as a residence and boarding house, known as Aunt Becky's House. Rooms in the middle and on the right was original to the building when it was used as a store. Then, a room to the left, a kitchen, the upstairs and a porch were added when it became a residence. The house never had indoor plumbing and heat was generated from the fireplace. Rebecca Cable, better known as 'Aunt Becky' to the Cove community, was born on Dec. 7, 1844 in Carter County, TN. One of nine children, she moved with her family to Cades Cove in 1868. She bought this house in 1887 with her brother Dan and lived here until her death in 1940 at the age of 96. Never married, she owned over 600 acres in the Cove and kept busy spinning, weaving, knitting, farming, tending store, taking in family boarders, and caring for her brother's children after he became ill.
Becky Cable House - Cades Cove Cades Cove at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular destination in the United States most visited national park. The isolated valley was the home to many early settlers and today several of those sites are well preserved. An 11-mile, one-way loop road circles the cove, offering motorists the opportunity to sight-see the wildlife, scenic beauty and historic district structures on the National Register of Historic Places at a leisurely pace. Several historic structures from the cove have been relocated and are now near the Cable Mill. Leason Gregg purchased land from John Cable and built this house in 1879 with lumber from Cable Mill. It is believed to be the first all-frame house in the Cove. Originally located south of its present location on Forge Creek Road, it was used as a store and later as a residence and boarding house, known as Aunt Becky's House. Rooms in the middle and on the right was original to the building when it was used as a store. Then, a room to the left, a kitchen, the upstairs and a porch were added when it became a residence. The house never had indoor plumbing and heat was generated from the fireplace. Rebecca Cable, better known as 'Aunt Becky' to the Cove community, was born on Dec. 7, 1844 in Carter County, TN. One of nine children, she moved with her family to Cades Cove in 1868. She bought this house in 1887 with her brother Dan and lived here until her death in 1940 at the age of 96. Never married, she owned over 600 acres in the Cove and kept busy spinning, weaving, knitting, farming, tending store, taking in family boarders, and caring for her brother's children after he became ill.
Hazel Path Mansion - Hendersonville, TN Hazel Path is a mansion on the National Register of Historic Places located in Hendersonville, TN. An office park has surrounded in just off of US31. Today, the mansion is used for lawyer offices. Here is the history from a Civil War Trust marker: Hazel Path Mansion is associated with the beginnings and legacies of the Civil War in Tennessee. The home of Confederate Gen. Daniel Smith Donelson, completed in 1857, became a camp for escaped slaves during the war. Donelson was the grandson of Pioneers Daniel Smith of Rock Castle and John Donelson of Nashville. From the age of three, after his father's death, Daniel Donelson lived with his uncle, Andrew Jackson, at Jackson's Hermitage plantation. Donelson graduated from West Point in 1825 but served less than a year in the U.S. Army. Before Tennessee seceded in 1861, Gov. Isham G. Harris appointed Donelson a general of state troops and asked him to locate sites for fortifications. Fort Donelson, on the Cumberland River, was named for him. He became a Confederate General in July 1861 and served under Gen. Robert E. Lee in western Virginia. Donelson then served under Gen. Braxton Bragg in the 1862 Kentucky campaign and led a brigade at the Battle of Stones River at the end of the year. On April 17, 1863, Donelson died of natural causes while in charge of the Department of East Tennessee. He is buried west of here at the Presbyterian Church on Gallatin Pike. Donelson's widow. Margaret Branch Donelson, returned in July 1865 to find the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen's Bureau) occupying the plantation, which had been a contraband camp since the Battle of Nashville in December 1864. About 900 former slaves had lived there, growing crops, cutting timber, and operating a sawmill. Mrs. Donelson petitioned President Andrew Johnson for the return of her property. Johnson agreed because her father, North Carolina Gov. John Branch, had been kind to him in his youth. The Berry family owned the house from 1886 to 1978.
Wynnewood - Castalian Springs, TN Wynnewood is a National Historic Landmark in Sumner County. Dating back to 1828, this former stagecoach Inn is the largest existing log structure in Tennessee. The building features significant restoration following tornado damage in 2008. For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynnewood_(Tennessee)
Homes of Old North Knoxville Old North Knoxville is a historic district neighborhood north of downtown with over 400 contributing properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_North_Knoxville,_Knoxville,_Ten...
Homes of Old North Knoxville: Dunn Mansion James B. Dunn Mansion is a large Neoclassical-style house built in 1905 Old North Knoxville is a historic district neighborhood north of downtown with over 400 contributing properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_North_Knoxville,_Knoxville,_Ten...
Homes of Old North Knoxville: Lou-Mar Lou-Mar, built in 1889, is a Queen Anne-style house designed by architect David Getaz Old North Knoxville is a historic district neighborhood north of downtown with over 400 contributing properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_North_Knoxville,_Knoxville,_Ten...
Rogana - Hugh Rogan's Stone Cottage Hugh Rogan was born in Ireland in 1747, moving to America in 1775. He was part of the Donelson party that arrived in Nashville in April 1780. In 1784, he sold his Nashville property and bought a farm along Bledsoe Creek in Sumner County. In 1796, he journeyed back to Ireland so that he could relocate his wife and son back here at his two room stone house. The house served as a Mass Station for Catholics for over 50 years. In 1998, the house was moved to its current location at Bledsoe's Fort Historical Park. You can look inside the cottage during the yearly Colonial Fair that happens in May.
Neil House - From Trenton to Jackson, TN The Neil House was originally built in 1837 in Trenton, TN. The antebellum plantation house was built in a Federal style with two large porches, 14-foot ceilings and 12-foot windows. The home played a role in the Civil War Battle of Trenton as citizens gathered on the roof to watch the battle unfold. Later, it became the home to Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice M.M. Neil. It was the centerpiece of the Trenton Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. The Trenton Historic District has multiple churches all bunched together and one of those congregations felt they needed more parking spaces. At the time, the home was not lived in, although it was in decent condition for the age. The church owned the property and decided to turn it into a parking lot. Preservationists were not happy. Thankfully in this case there is a happy ending. The home was purchased by the Shaw family which owns Brooks Shaw's Old Country Store at Casey Jones Village in Jackson, TN. In 2010, the home was split in half and transported to Casey Jones Village. This photo was taken while the renovations were almost complete. Today, the home is restored and fitted with retro furniture under the name Providence House, and is available for events.
Greystone - Knoxville, TN From Wikipedia: Greystone, also called the Camp House, is a prominent historic home in Knoxville, Tennessee, that houses the studios and offices of WATE-TV. It is an imposing structure, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The mansion is located at 1306 Broadway (US441). Major Eldad Cicero Camp began constructing his home in 1885. Architect Alfred B. Mullet designed the mansion in the Richardson Romanesque style. Mullett had previously designed the Customs House building in downtown Knoxville. The home is two and a half stories, with a three-story tower in the front. The exterior of the home is sheathed in stone from a quarry in Lake City, Tennessee. The home contains elaborate hand-carved mantels from France. Each room is paneled in a different type of wood. The heads of windows include stained glass panels, and 22 different types of marble are used in the house. The site also includes a carriage house. Major Camp was born in Ohio, served in the Union army during the Civil War, made Knoxville his home and was appointed a U.S. District Attorney by President Ulysses S. Grant. The Camp family used the home until 1935. When Camp's heirs were no longer able to maintain the house, they sold some of the furnishings and subdivided the mansion into apartments. The condition of the building declined during its rental use, until WATE-TV purchased the building in 1965 at a cost of $75,000. Over the next two years, the mansion was restored and renovated for use by the television station. The restoration and renovation process cost $1.5 million. The first floor of the building was preserved and restored largely in its original form. A new 13,000-square-foot addition on the back of the building housed the station's studios. In April 1973, Greystone was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
McLemore House Museum - Franklin, TN The Harvey McLemore house was built in 1880 with Colonial Revival architecture. Five generations of the McLemore family lived here until 1997. Today the house is on the National Register of Historic Places and is the McLemore House African-American Museum. From the Historic Marker: Hard Bargain In 1873, W.S. McLemore subdivided 15 acres, which he called "Hard Bargain" because of a difficult land deal struck in 1866. Hard Bargain became a stable community, largely African-American. The Harvey McLemore house on this lot, built in 1880, was the home of a successful ex-slave and his descendants for 117 years. To the north stands the Franklin Primitive Baptist Church, organized in 1867, and Mt. Hope Cemetery, begun in 1875. On the east stood St. John's Episcopal Church, the church's Negro mission, and a tobacco warehouse. Due south was the 1910 subdivision of Franklin banker E.E. Green and the Green Street Church of God. On the west stood Folk Town, a row of shotgun houses, now a playground.
Colemere / Monell's at the Manor - Nashville The mansion shown here was originally the home of retired NCStL Railway President E.W. Cole. It was built in 1931 to replace the first mansion here which burned down. The area became an important property with its location along Murfreesboro Road (US41/70S) next door to the Nashville airport. In 1948, a group of businessmen turned the mansion into a private club known as the Colemere Club. In 1977 it became the popular seafood restaurant New Orleans Manor. In 2011, southern family style buffet restaurant Monell's opened up a second location at the Manor.
Dancy-Polk House - Decatur, AL According to Wikipedia: The Dancy-Polk House (also known as the Col. Francis Dancy House) is a historic residence in Decatur, Alabama. The house was built in 1829 for Colonel William Francis Dancy, an early settler in the area, who later moved to Franklin, LA. It is the oldest building in Decatur, and one of only four to survive the Civil War (the others being the Old State Bank, the Rhea-McEntire House, and the Todd House in the Bank Street-Old Decatur Historic District). Dancy came to North Alabama from southern Virginia, and built a Georgian house popular in his homeland. The two-story frame house has a double-height portico with four Doric columns on each level. The house was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1978 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Fisk University Harris Music Building Text of the historic marker: This Italianate structure was built ca. 1876 as the home of Richard Harris, an entrepreneur and owner of Harris Furniture Co. In the late 1880s, he became the first Black trustee of Fisk University. W.G. Waterman, a Fisk professor, became owner of the house, and in 1909 he conveyed ownership to Fisk. In 1927, the building became the Music Annex. In 1991, the Music Annex was rededicated as the Harris Music Building.
Dr. A H Ewing House - Franklin, TN The Historic Franklin Tour Commission sign says the house dates to 1910.
Roberts-Moore House - Franklin, TN On the Franklin walking tour, the sign lists this home dating to 1898.
Saunders Marshall Wright House - Franklin, TN On the Franklin historic walking tour, this brick home dates to 1805.
Watson House - 1881 - Franklin, TN One of the houses on the Historic Franklin Walking Tour
Hunter-Bennett 1876 House - Franklin, TN This is one of the houses on the Historic Franklin walking tour
Eggleston-Dickinson House (1880) - Franklin, TN One of the historic homes on the walking tour of Historic Franklin
Elizabeth Eaton House (1818) - Franklin, TN This house from 1818 is on the historic Franklin walking tour. This text taken from a book, even though it says he lived here before another source says it was built. The house of Elizabeth Eaton, mother of John Henry Eaton. It was here that John Eaton resided before his first marriage in 1813. Here, too, Eaton and his second wife, Peggy O'Neil, often visited when on leave from his duties in Washington
Maney-Gaut Shuff House (1828) - Franklin, TN This house is on the Historic Franklin Walking Tour. With its close location to the Franklin town square, this is now the home of Shuff's Music Sales & Studios.
Church House - Columbia, TN The Church House (aka Barrow House) is a historic mansion along 7th Street in Columbia TN. It was built in 1873 in Second Empire architectural style. The first owner was Sheriff Latta, but was sold to Robert Church in 1885, and then inherited by grandson Robert Church Barrow. For full info: focus.nps.gov/GetAsset?assetID=c165e8c2-4000-4cee-af0e-45... Hello to anyone who found this here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/southern-tn-town/ The One Tennessee Town That’s So Perfectly Southern or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/best-2017-tn-towns/ The 12 Towns You Need To Visit In Tennessee In 2017
González-Alvarez House (or The Oldest House museum) The González-Alvarez House is a National Historic Landmark in St. Augustine, Florida. It claims to be the Oldest House in America and now operates as a museum by the local historic society. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonz%C3%A1lez-Alvarez_House
Clover Bottom Mansion - Nashville, TN From Wikipedia: Clover Bottom Mansion occupies land on the Stones River first claimed in 1780 by John Donelson, who abandoned his homestead following an Indian attack. The mansion was built in 1858 and was the centerpiece of the 1500 acre Clover Bottom Plantation. The Mansion was built near Nashville's first horse-racing track for Dr James and Mary Ann Saunders Hoggatt, who owned sixty slaves. Mrs. Hoggatt was a granddaughter of Daniel Smith, and her half-brothers were Andrew Jackson Donelson and Daniel Smith Donelson, for whom Ft. Donelson was named. The mansion was constructed in the Italianate style. A strong similarity to nearby Two Rivers Mansion that was being erected around the same time suggests that the same unknown contractor and/or architect was used, although no records have been found. The interior of the home had French scenic Zuber wallpaper, and the parlor had a frescoed ceiling. Clover Bottom Plantation was the childhood home of John McCline, whose autobiography "Slavery in the Clover Bottoms" provides a rare and detailed account of the life of a Davidson County slave prior to and during the early days of the Civil War. A Tennessee Civil War Trails marker was erected on the property in 2015 detailing the story of McCline. Dr. Hoggatt died in 1863, and the home was occupied at different times during the Civil War by soldiers from both armies. Mrs. Hoggatt's brother-in-law, the former U.S. and Confederate Congressman Meredith P. Gentry, was left destitute from investing his money in the Confederacy and moved into the home. He died at Clover Bottom in 1866. In the 1886 the property was sold to Andrew Price. Mr. Price, married to Anna Gay Price, was a four term Congressman from Louisiana who had Tennessee roots. Price restored the home and added several substantial outbuildings, raising thoroughbred horses on the property. In 1918, A.F. Stanford purchased the house, and his widow Merle Hutcheson Stanford Davis (1907-2011) owned it until she sold it to the state in 1948. The house was converted into housing for faculty for the Tennessee School for the Blind. It then suffered an unfortunate period of neglect and abandonment starting in the early 1980s, until an effort led by Edward Nave and fellow members of the local Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities helped convince the state to restore it. It has been the home of the Tennessee Historical Commission, the State Historic Preservation Office, since it was renovated in 1994. The property contains several important historic outbuildings, including two former c. 1858 slave cabins that are among a handful of former slave dwellings remaining in Davidson County. There is also a c. 1850s carriage house that may slightly predate the present dwelling. The c. 1890s transverse crib thoroughbred horse barn is one of the finest 19th-century barns remaining in the area. At the initiative of the Tennessee Historical Commission, the historic outbuildings were restored by the State in 2015-16 and interpretive signs were added. Over 150 trees of native species were planted, and a walking trail is being added. The grounds are open to the public during daylight hours. Tours of the house (which has no period furnishings or exhibits) are by appointment only. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1975.
Davis-Woldridge House (1810) - Franklin, TN This house is on the Historic Franklin Walking Tour.
Elm Springs - Columbia, TN Elm Springs is a two-story, brick house built in 1837 in the Greek Revival style. It is located just outside Columbia, TN. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 and has served as the headquarters for the Sons of Confederate Veterans since 1992. For more history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_Springs_(house)
Cox House - Franklin, TN The Cox House was built in 1891 with Late Victorian architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Eventually, this house became part of Harpeth Academy, Then in 1998, the property was acquired by Battle Ground Academy for their elementary school.
Glen Echo - Franklin, TN From Wikipedia: Glen Echo, also known as Harpeth Hall, is a property in Franklin, TN that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is a former plantation house that is now the centerpiece and administrative office of the Battle Ground Academy's Upper School campus. It was designed and/or built c. 1828 by Joseph Ruff for Williamson County's first Circuit Judge Thomas Stuart. The structure includes Federal architecture. The NRHP listing was for an area of 14 acres with just one contributing building. It was one of about thirty surviving antebellum "significant brick and frame residences" built in Williamson County that were centers of slave plantations. It is one of several of these located "on the rich farmland surrounding Franklin"; others were the Dr. Hezekiah Oden House, the Franklin Hardeman House and the Samuel Glass House, the Thomas Brown House, the Stokely Davis House, the Beverly Toon House and the Samuel S. Marten House.
Rippavilla Plantation - Spring Hill, TN Completed in 1855, Rippavilla is a Greek Revival mansion build for Confederate soldier Nathaniel F. Cheairs IV. The Civil War battle of Spring Hill happened on the grounds. Today the home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is open for tours and the 'Swanky Plank' Marketplace. It is located along highway US31 across from the public entrance to the Saturn plant. For more history: www.rippavilla.org/history.html
Ty's House aka "Hard Bargain Cemetery House" - Franklin, TN Originally, this ca. 1905 house in a Second Empire style belonged to the caretaker of Mt. Hope Cemetery in Franklin. This house is located in "Hard Bargain" which is a historic African American neighborhood dating back 130 years. This home became the community center for the association seeking to preserve the neighborhood. In 2012, the home was renamed Ty's House in honor of local resident Ty Osman II who died in a highway accident. For more info and pictures of the house renovation, look here: thedecorologist.com/tys-house-community-center-in-souther...
Murrah-Maples-Pryor House ca. 1838 Also known as the Luke Pryor house or the Frances Snow Pryor house, this home is located at 405 N. Jefferson St. in Athens, AL. It is stop #15 on Limestone County's Antebellum trail. Luke Pryor became the owner of this home in 1854. Pryor was an Alabama Congressman who helped get the Tennessee and Alabama Central Railroad built. The first locomotive to run on that line was named in his honor. Pryor became a US Senator in 1879.
Leeman House - Cannonsburgh Village - Murfreesboro, TN The Leeman House is a historic log house that was originally owned by the Leeman family in the town of Milton. When Cannonsburgh Village was created, this house, along with most structures in the park, was relocated here. Today, it is available for rent as a reception hall.
Kentucky Governor's Mansion From Wikipedia: The Kentucky Governor's Mansion is a historic residence in Frankfort, Kentucky. It is located at the East lawn of the Capitol, at the end of Capital Avenue. On February 1, 1972, it was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places. Kentucky Governor, Matt Bevin, and his family currently reside in the mansion. It was built in 1912-14 to be the governor's mansion, to designs submitted by Weber, Werner & Adkins of Cincinnati, Ohio; besides the Kentuckian architects normally credited with the design, the brothers Chris C. and Edward A. Weber (1875–1929) of Fort Thomas, partners in the firm included G.S. Werner, and J.S. Adkins. The brothers Weber were selected from among four firms invited to submit plans. The new mansion replaced the Old Governor's Mansion, built in 1798, which still stands, at 420 High Street, Frankfort. The Act specified that the new mansion should be "constructed, trimmed and finished with native stone produced from quarries in Kentucky." The Beaux-Arts design owed a great deal to the Petit Trianon at Versailles' interiors were in neoclassical French taste. The landscaping design for the mansion was developed and implemented by William Speed of Louisville. The Governor's Mansion Preservation Foundation is a charitable trust that is charged with conservation of the historic structure. The Governor's Mansion is regularly open for tours. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Governor's_Mansion
Judge Nathan Green Sr. House - Lebanon, TN This house is located at 607 W. Main St. in Lebanon and is stop #12 on the Historic Lebanon Driving tour. Here is the text from that brochure: This house was constructed soon after Judge Nathan Green Sr (1792-1866) moved to Lebanon in May 1850 and purchased six acres on the north side of the turnpike leading to Nashville. Green had served on the Tennessee Supreme Court for twenty-one years before his retirement in 1852, when he accepted a professorship to teach law at Cumberland University. Preceding his tenure on the Supreme Court, Green had been Chancellor of the East Tennessee Division of the court while a resident of Franklin County, Tennessee. In September 1865 Green and his son Nathan Green Jr. re-established Cumberland’s law school which had closed in April 1861 with the outbreak of the Civil War. Built in a simple Federal style, very common in ante-bellum Middle Tennessee, the structure has been home to several prominent Lebanon families. Amzi and Alice Williamson Hooker were one such family. Hooker (1878-1933) was President of the Lebanon National Band and had a successful lumber business. Members of the family lived in the home from the early 1900s to the mid-1970s.
Fort Nash House - Decatur, AL This prominent Art Deco styled house is located in Decatur's Historic district and was designed by Edwin Lancaster who was then the head of Auburn University's Architecture department. The home was built in 1939 as a wedding gift for the daughter of Ruby Nash of the local Coca-Cola distributor. Learn more and see interior pictures here: www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2016/06/cool_spaces_-_art_dec...
Robert L Caruthers Mansion - Lebanon, TN The Robert L Caruthers house at 241 W. Main St. (US70) in Lebanon is stop #2 on the Historic Lebanon Driving tour. Here is the text from that brochure: This fine home was built in 1828 by Henry Reiff for Robert Looney Caruthers. Reiff was also the builder of the Hermitage in 1819. Caruthers (1800-1882) was a successful Lebanon lawyer in 1827 when he was appointed 6th district Attorney General by Governor Sam Houston. His political career included election to the Tennessee House of Representatives, 1835, United States House of Representatives, 1841-43, and appointment to the Tennessee Supreme Court, 1852, replacing Judge Nathan Green Sr. Caruthers was elected governor of Tennessee in 1863 but did not take office as Federal troops occupied Nashville preventing the General Assembly from convening. He was a founder of Cumberland University, elected President of its first Board of Trustees, 1842, and served in this office until his death. Along with his brother Abraham, he co-founded Cumberland’s law school in 1847, and served as professor of law from 1868 until 1882. Before he was elected Governor in 1863, Caruthers accepted the nomination in a speech delivered from the home’s balcony. The home’s elegant curvilinear staircase is a feature also seen at Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage, as well as Tulip Grove, both of which were also constructed by the Caruthers home builders. The federal style home, updated with Eastlake features in the 1880s, is the earliest surviving brick residence in the city. For many decades, the home has been owned by Ligon & Bobo Funeral Home.
Fields-Brewer Cabin This log house is now located at Chickasaw State Park in Chester Co., TN. Here is the text of the sign: Originally built in the Roby community in 1876 by A.B. Fields and his wife Clearandie Stanfill Fields. Ownership was passed down to their daughter Lessie Fields Woods and then to her daughter Ruby Nell Woods Brewer. During the Bi-Centennial Celebration in 1976, the cabin was moved from Roby to the farm of Ruby Nell and Max Brewer in the Jacks Creek area. After the death of Max Brewer, Mrs. Ruby Nell and her two daughters, Joy and Gina, decided to donate the cabin to the Chickasaw State Park. In 1998 the cabin was disassembled and moved to this location. Parts of the original cabin could not be used because of decay, so logs were custom cut from local logs to restore the cabin. Cost of the restoration was shared by the "Friends of Chickasaw" support group and by Chickasaw State Park. Our goal is to offer this as a memorial to the memory of Max Brewer and the early settlers of the Chester County area.
Fite-Fessenden House - Lebanon, TN This building is stop #8 on the Historic Lebanon Driving tour. Here is the text from that brochure: The Wilson County Museum is housed in the two-story Federal -style brick house built about 1870 by Dr. James Leonidas Fite who began practicing medicine in Lebanon before the Civil War. In 1862, he was appointed surgeon of the 7th Tennessee Infantry Regiment in Virginia under the command of General Robert Hatton. In 1891 Dr. Fite’s daughter, Margaret Harsh, opened an elementary school in her parents’ home. Mrs. Virginia Wooten continued a school in the house from 1917 to 1920. In 1928, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fessenden acquired the property for their home. Their daughter, Sallie Barry Fessenden, who died March 6, 1983, directed in her will that the house be used as a museum. It is operated by the History Associates of Wilson County to preserve and educate about Wilson County’s heritage. This site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Nathaniel Parker Cabin - Bledsoe's Fort Historical Park The 1790's Parker family cabin is located now at Bledsoe's Fort Historical Park near Castalian Springs. Originally it was located in Rogana, about 4 miles to the north but was dismantled and relocated in the park. Parker married Mary Ramsey Bledsoe— the widow of Anthony Bledsoe— in the 1790s and commanded the fort at Greenfield.
I.W.P. Buchanan House - Lebanon, TN This home is stop #10 on the Historic Lebanon Driving tour. Here is the text from that brochure: 428 W. Main St. The Queen- Anne style Victorian house built by I.W.P. Buchanan is a George Barber design. Barber was a well-known American architect headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1888. Construction began on the home in 1894 and was completed in 1897. Isaac William Pleasant Buchanan (1866-1943) came to Lebanon as a child when his father, Dr. A.H. Buchanan, accepted a teaching position at Cumberland University. Buchanan would receive his bachelor and doctorate degrees from Cumberland and serve as professor of mathematics at the school in 1894-1898. Buchanan was a natural at mathematical and mechanical applications. He held several patents and in addition to founding the Castle Heights School in 1901, also designed its Main Administration building. Buchanan married Willie Conn Elkins in 1892. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Shannon House - Lebanon, TN The Shannon House is located at 321 W. Main St. (old US70) on Lebanon, TN. The house of late Victorian Architecture was built ca. 1902 for Laban Lacy Rice who would go on to become the owner of Castle Heights School and then President of Cumberland University. He sold the home to J.L. Shannon in 1909 when a home with the same floor plan was built on the Castle Heights campus. In 1909, Shannon started the J.L. Shannon and Sons Drug Store on Lebanon's Public Square. Shannon died in 1929, but his children operated the store into the 1960s and lived in the home until 1989. Today, the home is the office of THW Insurance.
Mitchell House - Lebanon, TN This home and the Castle Heights Military Academy is stop #13 on the Historic Lebanon Driving tour. Here is the text from that brochure: The Mitchell House is a fantastic example of neoclassical style architecture. Built as the home of Castle Heights President, David Mitchell, it was completed in 1910. The three story, Sewanee sandstone structure has 10,600 square feet and many fine original features such as hand-carved woodwork, ornamental ceilings and an impressive staircase. In 1936 the building became the home of the Junior School for the Castle Heights Military Academy. After the school closed in 1986, the home sat empty and neglected for over ten years. The Cracker Barrel Foundation, with its national headquarters in Lebanon, oversaw the complete restoration of the structure in 1998. Now the Executive Office of Sigma Pi Fraternity International, the building is a grand testament to the community’s preservation efforts.
Westwood - Knoxville, TN From Wikipedia: Westwood is an historic home located at 3425 Kingston Pike at the edge of the Sequoyah Hills area of Knoxville, Tennessee. Also known as the Adelia Armstrong Lutz House, the house was built in 1890 by John Lutz and his wife, artist Adelia Armstrong Lutz, on land given to them by Adelia's father, Robert H. Armstrong. In 1984, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_(Knoxville,_Tennessee) Today, the home is owned by Knox Heritage. knoxheritage.org/westwood/
Neat house in Lebanon, TN I can't find anything about this old house along Main St. (Old US70) in Lebanon, TN. It has a parking lot in the back and is next door to Ligon & Bobo Funeral Home, so I wonder if they use it for offices.
Bleak House - Knoxville, TN From Wikipedia: Bleak House is an antebellum Classical Revival style house in Knoxville, TN. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The house was first occupied by Robert Houston Armstrong and his wife, Louisa Franklin. It was built for the couple as a wedding gift by the bride's father, Major Lawson D. Franklin. Robert Armstrong's father, Drury Armstrong, gave them the land. The Armstrongs named the house after Charles Dickens' "Bleak House" novel of the same name. The bricks in the house were molded on-site using slave labor. The home was used by Confederate Generals James Longstreet and Lafayette McLaws as their headquarters during the 1863 Battle of Knoxville. Three Confederate sharpshooters who were stationed in the house's tower were killed by Union cannonballs. Two of the cannonballs are still embedded in the walls, and Civil War-era sketches of the slain soldiers are displayed on the walls of the tower. The home now belongs to local Chapter 89 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and is commonly called Confederate Memorial Hall.
Hundley-Clark House - Huntsville, AL The Hundley-Clark house at 400 Franklin Street is one of the Hundley Rental Houses. Here is the Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundley_Rental_Houses The Hundley Rental Houses are historic residences in Huntsville, Alabama. The houses were built by Oscar Richard Hundley, a prominent local judge and politician. Hundley built the two houses behind his own, along with a third one block away, in 1905. The houses all represent the transition from Victorian styles popular in the late 19th century to Colonial Revival styles of the early 20th century. A fire damaged the house at 400 Franklin Street in 1909, and a rear addition was likely added at this time. Hundley sold his own house the same year, and sold 400 Franklin in 1912 and 108 Gates Avenue in 1918. The houses are in use today as offices. 400 Franklin, also known as the Hundley-Clark House, is a two story Dutch Colonial Revival structure, with the second floor featuring large gambrel gables. This house has a one story porch, supported by plain wooden columns with tapered capitals. The house's front door has a transom and sidelights with diamond-shaped panes, The houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Biscuit Love - Franklin, TN (2016) This Queen Anne-styled Victorian home in downtown Franklin dates back to 1892. The owners operate two businesses here, Lillie Belle's Lunch and Tea Room, plus four rooms are available as the Inn at Franklin Square. Update: This is now Biscuit Love. The photo was taken in 2016
Ravenswood Mansion Spring House - Brentwood, TN Ravenswood is the 1825 mansion of James and Emeline Wilson featuring Greek Revival and Federal Architecture. The home gets it's name from 'The Raven' Sam Houston who was the Best Man at Wilson's wedding. It was the manor house of the third largest plantation in Williamson County as it was over 1,000 acres. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 2010, the city of Brentwood purchased the mansion and outbuildings with 325 acres. Today, the area is open to the public as Marcella Vivrette Smith Park, named after the 1960's property owner. Preserved featuers of the park include the spring house, cistern and root cellar, tree-lined driveway, and spring-fed pond. The entrance to the park is along highway TN252 (aka Wilson Pike or Harpeth Turnpike) and includes a new bridge over the 1914 train tracks. For more history: www.ravenswoodmansion.com/history www.brentwoodtn.gov/departments/parks-recreation/parks-tr...
Ravenswood Mansion (Rear) - Brentwood, TN Ravenswood is the 1825 mansion of James and Emeline Wilson featuring Greek Revival and Federal Architecture. The home gets it's name from 'The Raven' Sam Houston who was the Best Man at Wilson's wedding. It was the manor house of the third largest plantation in Williamson County as it was over 1,000 acres. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 2010, the city of Brentwood purchased the mansion and outbuildings with 325 acres. Today, the area is open to the public as Marcella Vivrette Smith Park, named after the 1960's property owner. Preserved features of the park include the spring house, cistern and root cellar, tree-lined driveway, and spring-fed pond. The entrance to the park is along highway TN252 (aka Wilson Pike or Harpeth Turnpike) and includes a new bridge over the 1914 train tracks. For more history: www.ravenswoodmansion.com/history www.brentwoodtn.gov/departments/parks-recreation/parks-tr...
Ravenswood Mansion (Front) - Brentwood, TN Ravenswood is the 1825 mansion of James and Emeline Wilson featuring Greek Revival and Federal Architecture. The home gets it's name from 'The Raven' Sam Houston who was the Best Man at Wilson's wedding. It was the manor house of the third largest plantation in Williamson County as it was over 1,000 acres. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 2010, the city of Brentwood purchased the mansion and outbuildings with 325 acres. Today, the area is open to the public as Marcella Vivrette Smith Park, named after the 1960's property owner. Preserved features of the park include the spring house, cistern and root cellar, tree-lined driveway, and spring-fed pond. The entrance to the park is along highway TN252 (aka Wilson Pike or Harpeth Turnpike) and includes a new bridge over the 1914 train tracks. For more history: www.ravenswoodmansion.com/history www.brentwoodtn.gov/departments/parks-recreation/parks-tr...
Ravenswood Mansion - Brentwood, TN Ravenswood is the 1825 mansion of James and Emeline Wilson featuring Greek Revival and Federal Architecture. The home gets it's name from 'The Raven' Sam Houston who was the Best Man at Wilson's wedding. It was the manor house of the third largest plantation in Williamson County as it was over 1,000 acres. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 2010, the city of Brentwood purchased the mansion and outbuildings with 325 acres. Today, the area is open to the public as Marcella Vivrette Smith Park, named after the 1960's property owner. Preserved features of the park include the spring house, cistern and root cellar, tree-lined driveway, and spring-fed pond. The entrance to the park is along highway TN252 (aka Wilson Pike or Harpeth Turnpike) and includes a new bridge over the 1914 train tracks. For more history: www.ravenswoodmansion.com/history www.brentwoodtn.gov/departments/parks-recreation/parks-tr...
Couey House - Summerville, GA Text of the interpretive marker: Built in the early 1840s Andrew McSelland Couey, this log house was one of the earliest pioneer homes and Chattooga County. As the land was cleared, the house was constructed of huge logs which were hoisted into place in carved into half dovetail ends as the house was erected. The house was restored to this site as it was considered to be a significant representation of the craftsmanship and lifestyle of the early pioneers in this area of north Georgia. Originally, the house was located nearly seven miles from this site in Dirt Town Valley near Tidings, Georgia. As the home of the family of Andrew and Fereby Couey, the house was once surrounded by a profitable 400 acre farm which produced corn, cotton and livestock. As with many southern homes, the War Between the States brought much hardship and Union soldiers passed through the area and depleted supplies. In addition to the loss of material goods, the inhabitants of the Couey House suffered greatly during the War Between the States with the death of their son Andrew Jackson Couey in Virginia on November 1, 1861. Like most Chattooga County men, Couey fought with the Confederate Army. His death and all to the county's loss of life and livelihood particularly ironic, since its humble county with very few slave holders had voted against succession from the union at the succession convention held in Milledgeville, Georgia on January 19, 1861. The Couey younger son, Eli Couey, also joined Company B., Knight Georgia Infantry, served throughout the war, and was present at the surrender Appomattox, Virginia on April 9, 1865. Also known as the Couey-Owings-Knowles House, this historic structure was the home of Andrew Couey until his death in 1882. Later, in 1904, it became the home of Couey's granddaughter, Flora Couey, who married William H. Owings. After the farm was subdivided and sold over the following decades, the house was last owned by Billy Knowles prior to being acquired by the Georgia Department of Transportation. Due to the widening of US Highway 27, the original site of the Couey House was needed. The relocation to Dowdy Park in Somerville was begun in 1995 and, though modern additions to the house had been added, only the original log structure was moved. Heroic efforts of the Summerville fire Department saved the house from complete loss in 2005. As the house was once again restored, the preacher porch was removed to allow the front porch to the open across the full width of the structure. This return the façade to the appearance of the early 1900s as remembered by Chattooga County Historian, Robert S. Baker, descendant of the Couey family and author of Chattooga the Story of a County and its people. Since 1998, the house has been maintained by the city of Somerville as an example of the historic preservation and for the enjoyment and education to all who visit the site. The Chattooga County Historical Society has continued to assist with the preservation and furnishing the house is well as with the documentation of the history surrounding it.
Neddy Jacobs cabin replica - Lebanon, TN The Neddy Jacobs replica cabin is on the Northern side of Lebanon's town square which is stop #1 on the Historic Lebanon Driving tour. Here is the text from that brochure: This replica cabin, built in 2002, depicts the home of Needy Jacobs in 1800. The Jacobs cabin’s original location was to the northwest of the Big Spring, later known as the Town Spring. This spring would provide water to Lebanon for over 100 years. In the early years, citizens would descend stone steps into the spring to retrieve their water. In 1887 stand pipe was laid to carry the water to homes and businesses. The spring was abandoned in 1932 and the city went to the Cumberland River for its water source. Listen and you can still hear the spring running as strong as ever under our Public Square. Here is the marker in the photo: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/... While this is a replica of the Neddy Jacobs cabin, the logs are from a different historic cabib. John Kelley built his home in Leeville in 1833. See that marker here: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers/... If I am understanding the markers properly, the town square of Lebanon was built around the town spring, however the spring was eventually covered up but still runs under the square. As part of the grounds of this cabin is a small trickle of water which flows in front. I wonder if that water is engineered to be tapped from the original spring or if it is just pumped in.
Moye-Green Boarding House - Portland, TN The Moye-Green Boarding House is one of the earliest residential properties in Portland dating back to 1878. It is located near the the site of the L&N railroad depot, and operated as a boarding house from about 1890 to 1945. The house features decorative Folk Victorian detailing on the front porch. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. At the same time, the house sat vacant for many years and was subject to deterioration and decay. The house was added to the Tennessee Preservation Trust's 2013 Ten in Tenn list of endangered properties. Since then, it appears to have undergone some renovation.
Richland (Replica) - Nashville West This replica home is located along Charlotte Pk. (US70) in what used to be H.G. Hill Park. Portions of the park are still there, but this is now surrounded by Nashville West shopping center and multiple new businesses. Text of this historic marker: 1.2 mile NE James Robertson built his cabin in 1779 at 23rd and Park. In October 1784 Robertson moved to his Richland Creek farm, living in the log structure until 1787, when the first brick house in Middle Tennessee was completed. Called Travellers' Rest until 1816, the brick house, which burned in 1902, was located inside his fort at 5904 Robertson Road. The two-story log house was dismantled in 1970. The replica at this site was erected during the 1996 Tennessee Bicentennial by the West Nashville Founders' Museum Association.
Savannah, TN Historic District: E.W. Ross House Built in 1908 and located along Main St. (US64) The Savannah Historic District is a group of 17 homes that form together to become an entry on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hunley Cabin - Bledsoe Fort Historic Park Three old houses have been relocated to the Bledsoe Fort Historic Park near Castallian Springs in Sumner County. Of the three, I can't find any details of this cabin. However, there is also a monument to Civil War submarine captain Horace Lawson Hunley here: flic.kr/p/UmK7xb
Polk Sisters' House - Columbia, TN The Polk Sisters' House is a historic house in Columbia, TN, that was the home of two sisters of U.S. President James K. Polk (Maria Polk Walker 1798-1876 & Ophelia Polk Hayes 1812-1851). The Polk Sisters' House was built in 1818. It is next door to the James K. Polk House and houses its visitors' center, a museum, and a gift shop. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Baillet House & Tullahoma Fine Arts Center This home on Jackson St. (US41A) in Tullahoma was built in 1868 for the Baillet Sisters. 100 years later, in 1968 it became the Tullahoma Fine Arts Center. www.tullahomafinearts.org/past/ Here is the text of the Tennessee Historical Comission Marker: Jane (Jennie) Baillet 1834 - 1918 Emma Adell Baillet 1838 - 1926 Affa Ann Baillet 1850 - 1934 This house was the home of Jane, Emma, and Affa Baillet whose family purchased the property in 1868. From around 1870 to 1913 the sisters, businesswomen and artists, owned and operated J. & E.A. Baillet Millinery Shop where they created original fashionable ladies wear and hats. Their legacy of Tennessee landscape and genre paintings date from 1870 and include estate portraits and historical sites of Tullahoma. Here is the text of the Tullahoma History Trail Marker: Now the city's regional Fine Arts Center, sisters Jennie and Affa Baillet and their parents lived and worked here beginning in the 1870's. Jennie was an artist and the family operated a millinery store downtown. They watched much of what happened in Tullahoma during its prosperous years between 1875 and 1925.
Dick Wickham house - Woodstock, VA This old house now serves as the Shenandoah County Library and Woodstock Museum. As one of the oldest buildings in town, it began as a log house with the exterior being a new addition. Full story here: archives.countylib.org/tour/items/show/39
The Leming House - Manchester, TN This house was build by John Leming in Manchester, TN. Today, it operates as a Bed & Breakfast and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Octagon Hall According to the Historic Marker: An antebellum landmark built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell, an ardent advocate of the southern cause. Many Confederate soldiers found shelter here. Bricks were made, wood cut and finished, stone was quarried on the place. The house erected by Caldwell and his men, has three floors, with four large rooms, a hall and stairway. Large basement provided hiding place. This historic home is now open as a Civil War museum. It is located north of Franklin, KY along US31. Today, it is on the National Register of Historic Places. There are only four of these eight sided homes remaining in America. In time for Halloween, it's also home of many ghost stories: wkrn.com/2017/10/26/spirits-of-civil-war-soldiers-never-l... www.kentuckytourism.com/octagon-hall-civil-war-museum/2216/
Marsh-Warthen House - Lafayette, GA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh-Warthen_House From Wikipedia The Marsh-Warthen House in Lafayette, Georgia is a historic Greek Revival house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is open as a historic house museum and events venue, and is owned by the government of Walker County, Georgia. The house was built c.1836 and expanded c. 1895-1910. Colonial Revival modifications were done c.1935. The Marsh-Warthen House was built in 1836, by Spencer Stewart Marsh and his wife, Ruth Terrell Brantley Marsh. The original house consisted of four rooms over four rooms with wide hallways running through the center of the building on both the upper and lower levels. A large porch with square columns was constructed on the south side of the house; a second-story balcony with a door from the upstairs hall was built over this porch. The original kitchen was in the basement, and food was brought up to the main level by a dumb waiter. The kitchen remained in the basement until about 1900, when the grandson of Spencer Marsh, Spencer Marsh Warthen, built a two-story wing on the northeast side of the house. The lower level of the new wing contained the kitchen and a large pantry, while the upper level was used as servants’ quarters. The Marsh-Warthen House is an early Greek Revival-style home and is significant as an example of a Georgian-type house with original Greek Revival-style and later Colonial Revival-style details. According to Georgia's Living Places: Historic Houses in their Landscaped Settings, a statewide context, the Georgian house was popular in Georgia's towns and cities from the early years of the 19th century well into the 20th century. The Greek Revival style, which was found more often in towns and cities, was popular from the 1840s through the 1860s. The Marsh-Warthen house is thus an early example of the Greek Revival style of architecture on the Georgia frontier. It retains many of its original stylistic features including overall symmetrical massing, low hipped roof, central-hall plan, and architectural details including prominent square Doric columns and a front door surrounded by narrow sidelights and a rectangular line of transom lights above. Due to the presence of African-American slaves on the property, the early construction date of the house, and the tradition of using slave labor in the antebellum period in Georgia, it is likely that Mr. Marsh's slaves were involved in the construction of the house. Spencer Marsh's youngest daughter, Sarah Adaline, married Nathaniel Green Warthen in 1859. After living on a plantation in McLemore's Cove (northwest of La Fayette) and retreating to the old Warthen home place in Warthen, Washington County, Georgia, during the Civil War, the Warthens and their children moved into the Marsh-Warthen House, probably about 1875, after the death of Mr. Spencer Marsh. Their son, Spencer Marsh Warthen, was responsible for the Colonial Revival elements including the roof dormers added to the house in the early 20th century and for the two additions to the house. According to Georgia's Living Places, the Colonial Revival-style elements were often simply added onto buildings of other styles. The Colonial Revival style was very popular in Georgia from the 1890s through the 1940s. The Patrick R. Clements family owned the house from 1992-2002 when it was purchased by the Walker County, Georgia, Historical Society. In the summer of 2003, the house was purchased by Walker County from the Walker County Historical Society. Under an agreement with the county, the Walker County Historical Society manages the building, and through the Marsh House Community Task Force (Board of Trustees), raises funds for the operation and maintenance of the building and surrounding grounds. The Marsh House is open to the public from 1:30 until 3:30 on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons. The Marsh House aims to serve as a major educational and cultural institution in Northwest Georgia and the greater Chattanooga area by providing in-depth tours led by trained interpreters, by offering historically accurate reenactments, by working with local schools to offer curriculum-targeted instructional experiences, and by hosting exhibits and events which promote understanding of Northwest Georgia's diverse peoples and history. More than 10,000 persons visit the house and grounds each year, many as a continuation of their visit to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park which is only 12 miles away. The Marsh House Museum Board also manages the Chattooga Academy for educational programs across the lawn which Spencer Marsh helped to found and which is the oldest brick school house in Georgia. The house is significant in the area of European settlement of North America. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Cherokee Nation included the area that would become Walker County. The Georgia Land Lottery of 1832 followed by the removal of the Cherokee by the federal government opened the area to white settlement. Spencer Marsh moved his family to La Fayette c.1835 from Newton County, Georgia, and became one of the pioneers of the county. During the early years of his life on the frontier, Mr. Marsh had many dealings with his Cherokee neighbors and was given the name Estachee by the Cherokee Indians. Marsh House history notes that one of his servants at the Marsh House, Ninatoya, was a Cherokee woman who was forced west on the Trail of Tears in the late 1830s. The home he built c. 1836-1837 is one of the few surviving houses from that period of early white settlement. The Marsh-Warthen House is important to an understanding of social and cultural history due to Spencer Marsh's efforts to promote the welfare of the La Fayette area. As a community and business leader in La Fayette and Walker County, Marsh encouraged progress in the economic, educational, and religious life of the community. In addition to his influence as a local merchant Mr. Marsh helped organize the Trion Factory (in Chattooga County, south of La Fayette) in 1845, the first cotton mill in northwest Georgia. He served as an Inferior Court justice and as a state senator. He also donated the land for the Chattooga Academy (located just south of the Marsh-Warthen House and listed in the National Register on February 15, 1980) and served as a trustee for the academy and for the La Fayette Female Academy established soon thereafter. Mr. Marsh was an active member and major funder of the First Baptist Church of La Fayette, where his family and slaves attended. The Marsh household was a typical wealthy Southern household during the mid-19th century. The family coexisted and interacted closely with the African-American slaves who lived on the property and later with the African-American servants who lived in the main house. Spencer Marsh was thus a prominent local example of the kind of enterprising pioneer who helped settle Georgia's westward-moving frontier during the late 18th and early 19th Centuries through his contributions to the developing community's social, economic, and cultural life.
Roy Acuff's Opryland House In the early 1980s, after the death of his wife, Mildred, Roy Acuff, then in his 80s, moved into a small house on the Opryland grounds and continued performing daily at the Grand Ole Opry. He arrived early most days at the Opry before the shows and performed odd jobs, such as stocking soda in backstage refrigerators. Seeing the exterior of the house is part of the Grand Ole Opry tour, but anyone is able to walk up to it at any time.
Heigold House facade detail George Washington - Louisville, KY text of the historic marker: Christian Heigold, a German immigrant and stonecutter, came to Louisville sometime prior to 1850, and in 1857 he built his home at 264 Marion Street in an area known as the Point. This was a period of unrest and attacks on Irish and German immigrants, not long after the infamous Bloody Monday incident in 1855. In order to prove his patriotism and loyalty to America, he carved inscriptions and busts of American notables into the facade of the house. Among the incised mottos is one reading, "Hail to the City of Louisville." Heigold died shortly after the facade was completed in 1865, and his son Charles lived there until his death in 1925. The Heigold house was one of only a few structures on the Point to survive the Great Flood of 1937, and the only one still inhabitable. The house survived until 1953 when the city purchased the property in order to expand the city dump. Mayor Charles Farnsley saved the facade of the house from demolition by moving it to Thruston Park on River Road between Adams and Ohio streets. In June of 2007, the facade was moved to the entrance of historic Frankfort Avenue. For more info: louisvilleky.com/louisville-uncovered-presents-the-heigol...
Heigold House facade detail of James Buchanan - Louisville, KY "Hail to Buchanan, now and forever" text of the historic marker: Christian Heigold, a German immigrant and stonecutter, came to Louisville sometime prior to 1850, and in 1857 he built his home at 264 Marion Street in an area known as the Point. This was a period of unrest and attacks on Irish and German immigrants, not long after the infamous Bloody Monday incident in 1855. In order to prove his patriotism and loyalty to America, he carved inscriptions and busts of American notables into the facade of the house. Among the incised mottos is one reading, "Hail to the City of Louisville." Heigold died shortly after the facade was completed in 1865, and his son Charles lived there until his death in 1925. The Heigold house was one of only a few structures on the Point to survive the Great Flood of 1937, and the only one still inhabitable. The house survived until 1953 when the city purchased the property in order to expand the city dump. Mayor Charles Farnsley saved the facade of the house from demolition by moving it to Thruston Park on River Road between Adams and Ohio streets. In June of 2007, the facade was moved to the entrance of historic Frankfort Avenue. For more info: louisvilleky.com/louisville-uncovered-presents-the-heigol...
Heigold House facade - Louisville, KY text of the historic marker: Christian Heigold, a German immigrant and stonecutter, came to Louisville sometime prior to 1850, and in 1857 he built his home at 264 Marion Street in an area known as the Point. This was a period of unrest and attacks on Irish and German immigrants, not long after the infamous Bloody Monday incident in 1855. In order to prove his patriotism and loyalty to America, he carved inscriptions and busts of American notables into the facade of the house. Among the incised mottos is one reading, "Hail to the City of Louisville." Heigold died shortly after the facade was completed in 1865, and his son Charles lived there until his death in 1925. The Heigold house was one of only a few structures on the Point to survive the Great Flood of 1937, and the only one still inhabitable. The house survived until 1953 when the city purchased the property in order to expand the city dump. Mayor Charles Farnsley saved the facade of the house from demolition by moving it to Thruston Park on River Road between Adams and Ohio streets. In June of 2007, the facade was moved to the entrance of historic Frankfort Avenue. For more info: louisvilleky.com/louisville-uncovered-presents-the-heigol...
Carriage Inn - Tell City, IN This historic house along Main St. in Tell City, IN is now a Pizza restaurant.
Endangered: Lookout Mountain Hardy House (aka Littleholme) www.timesfreepress.com/news/community/story/2018/jan/17/l... From the article: The house was built in 1928 by Edith Soper Hardy after her husband passed and left her $25,000 to turn her home into the one she'd always dreamed of. So she tore down the 1800's cottage on the property and built a small storybook style home. Local historian David Moon, founder of PicNooga, a historical photography preservation organization, argues the house has historical value due to Edith's humanitarian work and her husband Richard's time as mayor of Chattanooga from 1923 to 1927. Edith founded the Humane Educational Society of Chattanooga in 1910, and was named director of The American Humane Association. While the house has historic value, it has also been vacant and neglected for two decades. The home is now owned by the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, located next door to the prominent Cravens House. The focus of the military park is the Civil War, so they don't have the resources to maintain a delapidated house built 60 years after the war. The Park now has plans to demolish the house. The Cravens house is in desperate need of better parking, so this would likely become a parking lot. Plus the park has plans to add landscaping consistent with the time period of the Civil War. Now, people who wish to save this house have one thing in their favor: the park doesn't have the money to demolish the house. www.facebook.com/savinglittleholme/
Mayes-Hutton House - Columbia, TN From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayes-Hutton_House The house was built in 1854 for Samuel Mayes, who sold his slaves as he believed slavery would come to an end, and re-invested his money in this house. The original portion of the house has a large 54 foot by 58 foot section with an 18 by 18 foot attached wing on the west of the back side. The brown brick house sits on a stucco-covered limestone foundation. The front of the house, probably heavily modified in the 1870s, includes four fluted Corinthian columns supporting a pediment, and a parapet, presenting a massive front facade. The interior is less ostentatious. but well designed, with a central hall that continues through the house, a free-standing stair, and balcony. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural qualities on July 8, 1970.
James K. Polk Ancestral Home - Columbia, TN From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Polk_Ancestral_Home The James K. Polk Ancestral Home is a historic house museum at 301 West 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee. Built in 1816, it is the only surviving private residence of United States President James K. Polk. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The James K. Polk House is located just west of the commercial central downtown area of Columbia, at the southwest corner of West 7th and South High Streets. It is an L-shaped brick building, two stories in height, with a gabled roof. The front facade, facing West 7th Street, is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the rightmost bay, recessed in a segmented-arch opening. The door is flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a semi-oval transom window with tracery, and the interior walls of the recess are paneled. The other bays house windows, which are topped by lintels of brick and a stone keystone. The interior retains finishes period to its construction, but has otherwise been adapted for museum displays. The property includes a reproduction of the kitchen outbuilding that would have been present during Polk's residency; none of the outbuildings from his time survive. The house was built in 1816 by Samuel Polk, and was the home of his son, U.S. President James K. Polk, for several years as a young adult. It is the only surviving private residence associated with President Polk to survive. James lived in the house until 1819, when he left to read law in Nashville, and for a time after his return to Columbia, where he opened his law practice. The house remained in the Polk family for many years, and passed through several owners before its acquisition by the state of Tennessee in 1929. The museum is operated by the James K. Polk Association. The fountain on the site was moved here in 1893 after Polk Place, the president's later home, was demolished. On March 27, 2017, the Tennessee Senate voted 20-6 to relocate the remains of President Polk and his wife Sarah Childress Polk from the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville to the house.
Ganoe-Bussell Log Cabin - Tullahoma, TN This cabin which dates back to ca. 1850 is located in the park in front of the old Tullahoma High school. According to the sign in front: This log cabin, which may be the oldest extant building in Tullahoma, was located at 607 S. Atlantic St. when it was discovered in 1990. Will and Mary Ganoe purchased the house in 1898 from the family of Thomas Wells. Ganoe descendants lived in the house until 1975
First Marshall County Court House (1836) - Lewisburg, TN According to the TN Historic marker: In this room of the original Abner Houston home the first court of Marshall County met October 3, 1836. Moved and restored by Robert Lewis Chapter DAR October 6, 1957. Abner Houston was a pioneer of Lewisburg, and this home originally stood on Haynes St. two blocks north of the town square and current Marshall County Courthouse. Today, it is located in front of Lone Oak Cemetery in the triangle formed by US31A and Yell Rd. Learn more here: www.marshalltribune.com/story/2134723.html
Bell House - Winchester, VA The Bell House in Winchester, VA is part of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District as part of the Third Winchester Battlefield. In 2016, the two century old house was sold by the Bell family to the "Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation." www.washingtonpost.com/news/house-divided/wp/2016/08/01/h...
Douglass Clark House (and Courthouse) The original log house which incorporates a single room building, built in 1787, served as the first Sumner County Courthouse. Andrew Jackson appeared at the courthouse in his role as Attorney General for the Metro District. In the 1860s, four sons of Emma Douglass Clark fought for the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Only one of the four Douglas men, Charles, survived the war. He was discharged after serving under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. This house is located outside of Gallatin where Long Hollow Pike (TN174) passes Station Camp Creek. The home remained a family dwelling until 2007 when it was sold to the county. From there, Sumner County spent several years completely renovating the home. In 2015, the home opened as a visitor's center. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. Learn more from this Tennessee Crossroads video: youtu.be/DNg0ZDtzlyg
Tovar House - St. Augustine, FL The biggest claim to fame of this house is that it is located next door to the oldest house in the country. However, this house has a history of it's own. Here is the text of its historic markers: The infantryman José Tovar lived on this corner in 1763. The original site and size of his house remained unchanged during the British period, when John Johnson, a Scottish merchant, lived here. After the Spanish returned in 1784, José Coruña, a Canary Islander with his family, and Tomás Caraballo, an assistant surgeon, occupied the house. Geronimo Alvarez, who lived next door in the González-Alvarez House, purchased the property in 1791. It remained in his family until 1871. A later occupant was Civil War General Martin D. Hardin, USA. The characteristic site plan of Spanish Colonial architecture is evident in the Tovar House which is situated on the street edge and the property is enclosed with a solid wall. Rectangular window openings, a front balcony, and coquina stone construction are other important Colonial characteristics. The building has been under stewardship of the St. Augustine Historical Society since 1918, and like other original Colonial buildings, its history is still being investigated. Spanish records reflect that an earlier building was located onsite and identifies it as a tabby structure which is different than quarried coquina stone. Archaeological and architectural research are ongoing that help to provide more information on the original building footprint and interior finishes.
Dr. Beal's Shell Museum This old house/museum is located along US98 a few miles west of Fort Walton in Okaloosa County. From the historical marker: Dr. James Hartley Beal (1861-1945) was an influential pharmacist, chemist, lawyer, educator, and scientist. Despite his busy life, he began collecting land and marine shells, purchasing his first specimen, in 1888. The Fort Walton Beach resident bought this house in early 1928. The building was used by Dr. Beal as his office and housed his extensive shell collection. By 1940, his collection had grown to be one of the largest shell collections in the world. The nearly two million shells were donated to Rollins College, where they remained on display until 1988. They were then transferred to the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, Gainesville. The house was extensively remodeled and converted into the Summerhouse Restaurant, which operated there from the 1980s until 2004. It was originally located at 2 Miracle Strip Parkway in Fort Walton Beach. The building was slated for demolition in the fall of 2004. In order to save the building, Dr. Beal’s Shell Museum was purchased and moved by barge to its present location.
Smotherman House - Tullahoma, TN The Smotherman House was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. Here is the write-up from the Tennessee Historical Commission press release. Smotherman House (Tullahoma - Coffee County) The Smotherman house was designed by Nashville architect George Waller and built in Tullahoma between 1932 and 1934. Landscape architect John Byars Holder designed the gardens at the same time. Fletcher Smotherman, a wholesale grocery businessman, moved from Murfreesboro to Tullahoma when he became part owner of the wholesale grocery and moved the company headquarters to Tullahoma. Smotherman directed Waller to design his new house to look like his former home in Murfreesboro. Both Georgian Revival Houses are two stories, red brick with classical entries, and flanked by one story extensions. The Smotherman House exhibits characteristic details of the Georgian Revival style in its symmetrical design, molded woodwork, and classical columns. In addition to being a well-known architect of residences in the South, Waller designed many school buildings, commercial buildings and churches. www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=191951697477985...
Hank Williams' Boyhood Home - Georgiana, AL Text of the marker: Hiram Williams lived in Georgiana from age 7 to 11. In 1931, Mrs. Lillie Williams moved Hiram and his sister Irene from rural Wilcox County to this house owned by Thaddeus B. Rose. When he was 8, his mother bought him a guitar for $3.50. Black street musician Rufus (Tee-Tot) Payne became his teacher. Hiram practiced guitar under the raised-cottage house and sang on the streets for tips. The family moved to Greenville in the fall of 1934 and then to Montgomery in 1937 where, at age 14, Hiram began calling himself ‘Hank.’
Rachel H.K. Burrow Museum - Arlington, TN This old home / museum is located in Arlington, a suburb of Memphis. From the Historic Marker: Early pioneers settled in the Arlington area around 1830. A depot, called Withe Station, was established in 1856. The land was given by General Samuel Jackson Hays. In 1872 his land holdings were sold at public auction and the community became Haysville, incorporated in 1878. The name was changed to Arlington in 1883, and again incorporated in 1900. In 1905, the Arlington Bank and Trust Company was established in this building.
Tulip Grove - Nashville, TN Tulip Grove is the 1836 house of Andrew Jackson Donelson, nephew of President Andrew Jackson. The home was designed by Joseph Reiff who also built the Hermitage. Donelson was a West Point graduate, foreign minister to Prussia, and unsuccessful candidate for Vice President in 1856. The home is close enough to President Jackson's Hermitage that it is part of the Hermitage grounds. You can see it as part of your Hermitage visit, although it is a bit of a walk. From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_Grove While Andrew Jackson was still President in 1834, Andrew Jackson Donelson decided to build Tulip Grove in land close-by to the Hermitage. The house was completed in 1836 with the original name of "Poplar Grove." President Martin Van Buren suggested he rename it to Tulip Grove in 1841. In 1858, Donelson sold the property to the parents of painter Mayna Treanor Avent (1868–1959), who grew up at Tulip Grove. Later, it passed through successive owners until 1964 when it was acquired by the Ladies' Hermitage Association. Tulip Grove is representative of the antebellum Greek Revival style that was popular before the American Civil War. It consists of two main stories, a basement, and attic. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
Alfred's cabin - The Hermitage This double pen log cabin is an original slave cabin preserved on the grounds of Andrew Jackson's Hermitage in Nashville. Studies of the cabin show it may be as old as 1841. It is called Alfred's Cabin as former slave Alfred Jackson as a free man lived here until his death in 1901.
Nicholas Gotten House - Bartlett, TN Text from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Gotten_House The Nicholas Gotten House is located on 2969 Court Street in Bartlett, TN. It houses the Bartlett Museum, a local history museum operated by the Bartlett Historical Society. The white frame structure was built by Nicholas Gotten in 1871 in the New England saltbox style. A saltbox is a wooden frame house with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back. Nicholas Gotten immigrated from Germany at the age of 22 in 1854. He was a blacksmith and served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. In the years following the war, Gotton made a living as a miller and ginner. He and his wife Julia Coleman raised three children in the house. Until the late 1970s, the Gotten House was owned by the City of Bartlett and used as the Bartlett Police Station. In the early 1980s, the house was leased by the City of Bartlett to the Bartlett Historic Society in a 50-year contract for $1 per year, to save the house from planned demolition and to refurbish the property. The structure became the seat of the Bartlett Historic Society, and since 1990 it has housed the Bartlett Museum. Exhibits on display at the museum are of relevance to local history: the collection includes photographs, written documents on the history of Bartlett, artifacts, and period furniture. The museum is open to the public every first and third Sunday of the month from 2-4 pm. Admission to the museum is free. On March 20, 2002, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. After a $100,000 renovation in 2007, which included authentic new windows, doors and fixtures, the Gotten house was declared a Bartlett Historic Landmark by the Bartlett Historic Preservation Commission in 2008.
McGavock-Gatewood-Webb House - Nashville, TN Every year, Historic Nashville Inc. releases the "Nashville Nine." This is a list of endangered historic sites in Nashville. This house with a fascinating history made the list in 2011 but appears to be in better shape now than then. From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGavock-Gatewood-Webb_House The McGavock-Gatewood-Webb House, also known as Blue Fountain, is a historic house in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It was built in the 1840s. The house is located at 908 Meridian Street in Nashville, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is located opposite the Ray of Hope Community Church (formerly known as the Meridian Street United Methodist Church, built in 1925), between Vaughn Street and Cleveland Street. It is in the neighborhood of Cleveland Park, in East Nashville. It is East of Downtown Nashville, and East of the Cumberland River. The house is linked to the McGavock family. In 1754-1755, James McGavock moved from County Antrim, Ireland to Philadelphia. By 1765, his son, David McGavock, acquired 640 acres of land East of the Cumberland River, though he did not live here. (Another son, Randal McGavock, who served as the Mayor of Nashville from 1824 to 1825, built the Carnton plantation in Franklin, Tennessee.) The estate was divided into two sections for each of his two sons: John McGavock inherited 320 acres, as did James McGavock. Shortly before his death, James McGavock built this house, known as Fountain Blue upon its completion circa 1840. It was designed in the Federal architectural style. After James McGavock died in 1841, the 320 acres were divided into four for each of his children. The 94 acres with the Fountain Blue house were inherited by his daughter Lucinda. Lucinda lived here with her husband, Jeremiah George Harris, the editor of the Nashville Union newspaper and a supporter of President James K. Polk, their son Joseph, and their daughter Lucie. Harris redesigned the house circa 1844, adding Greek Revival finishes and French wallpaper. After Lucinda died in 1847, husband and children continued to live in the house. During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, the house was uninhabited, as Jeremiah served in the Union Navy while his son Joseph in the Confederate States Army in Knoxville, Tennessee, and his daughter Lucie was in the Northern states. After the war, in 1868, Lucie moved into the house with her husband, Professor Van Sinderen Lindsley, a Professor of Surgical Anatomy at the University of Nashville. They redesigned the house in the Italianate architectural style circa 1870, and Meridian Street was created a year later, in 1871. The house was purchased by Leslie Emmett Gatewood in 1891. Gatewood lived here until 1905, when he sold it to Alonzo C. Webb. Webb rented the house to Professor J. J. Keys, the superintendent of Nashville public schools. By 1915, Webb house was converted into apartments for lease. After his death in 1939, the house changed ownership several times before it was owned by Webb's son, Hanor Webb, as a rental property. In 2003, the house was purchased by the Ray of Hope Community Church to house the Better Tomorrows Adult Education Center. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 11, 2007.
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Frederick Stump Tavern-Inn - Nashville From the historic marker: Frederick Stump (1724-1822), an early settler in the Fort Nashborough area, came from Pennsylvania by way of Georgia. He was a revolutionary war soldier and noted Indian fighter. He owned a large plantation along White’s Creek where he operated a mill and inn and rented land to other settlers. This log house is reputed to have been his home where he operated the inn. From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Stump_House The Frederick Stump Tavern-Inn is a historic house in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It was built by Colonel Frederick Stump, an early settler of Nashville who arrived in the region as part of the first group of white settlers at Fort Nashboro in 1779. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 2, 1973. The two-story building is constructed of red cedar logs and has eight rooms, including three sleeping rooms on the upper floor. It originally sat closer to the road, but was moved back approximately 100 feet when Buena Vista Pike was widened. The structure is directly down the street from the Alexander Ewing House, another listed historic building constructed in 1821 that sits approximately 850 feet to the north of the Stump House. Frederick Stump was born circa 1724. In Pennsylvania by the 1760s he was known to be aggressive in Native American territory. In January 1768, he killed or helped to kill ten native people, including four women, two children and an infant, in an incident later called "Stump's Massacre," "Stumps Run Massacre," or "The Frederick Stump Affair." After bragging about this event to others, Stump was arrested. He initially claimed self-defense, but then managed to escape prison with the help of an armed mob who supported his deeds. Stump ended up fleeing to Georgia and never received any consequences for his crime. After serving in the American Revolutionary War under Francis Marion, he was arrested, escaped prison again, and fled to Tennessee. He arrived at White's Creek on Christmas Day 1779, and is a signer of the Cumberland Compact, along with his son Jacob Stump who was killed by Native Americans in 1780. Colonel Frederick Stump also built a log cabin home on the east side of White's Creek where he and wife Anna Snavely resided.
Hank Snow's Rainbow Ranch - Nashville, TN This is the long-time estate of Country Music star Hank Snow. He lived in this house in the Madison neighborhood for 44 years until his death in 1999. While the house is called Rainbow Ranch, there is also a barn in the back yard which was used as a recording studio and has the words Rainbow Ranch painted on it. I took the picture at this angle, which is the only way it can barely be seen from the street, along with a tour bus. You might need to view the picture at full size to see it on the right. This home is now available as a vacation rental: hanksnowsranch.com/index.html The Rainbow Ranch was also added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. I was inspired to upload this photo today because of the Ken Burns Country Music documentary.
Jesse Owens Childhood Home (Replica) The Jesse Owens Museum in Oakville, AL is a tribute to the Olympic Track and Field great. He captured four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics shattering Hitler's Aryan supremacy theory. The museum pays tribute to his athletic and humanitarian achievements. Also on the grounds of the park are a bronze statue, 1936 Olympic torch replica, a broad jump pit where you can test your own ability, and the Gold Medal tree. This is a replica of the simple wooden house Jesse Owens lived in at the time of his birth. jesseowensmuseum.org/
John McLeod House - Hattiesburg, MS This Queen Anne style home was built for Businessman John McLeod who moved to Hattiesburg in 1896. This house is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Hub City Historic District. Today this is the office for a law firm.
Douglas-Wyatt House - Fayetteville, TN Located in Fayetteville, this house was built for Hugh Bright Douglas circa 1893. The house was designed by Rickman & Bills in a Steamboat Gothic architecture style with Queen Anne & Victorian elements. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as the Hugh Bright Douglas House.
Old house in Jonesville, VA I don't know the name or story of this house since I was just passing through Jonesville on US58, but it reminded me of a haunted house on Halloween.
Miles House - Nashville, TN "The Pearl of Woodland Street" From Wikipedia: The Miles House is a historic building located at 631 Woodland Street in Nashville, Tennessee It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 1978. Since 1978 the Miles House has been cared for by Phillip Miller and is currently home to the Miller Law Offices. The Miles House has withstood Nashville's Great Fire of 1916 and a tornado in 1998. When first built prior to the civil war the building was a private residence, but was converted to a private girls school to serve the wealthy neighborhood of Edgefield. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_House
Benjamin Harrison Home - Indianapolis From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison_Presidential_Site The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, previously known as the Benjamin Harrison Home, was the home of the 23rd President of the U.S., Benjamin Harrison. It is in the Old Northside Historic District of Indianapolis, IN. Harrison had the sixteen-room house with its red brick exterior built in the 1870s. It was from the front porch of the house that Harrison instituted his famous Front Porch Campaign in the 1888 United States Presidential Campaign, often speaking to crowds on the street. In 1896, Harrison renovated the house and added electricity. He died there in a second story bedroom in 1901. Today it is owned by the Arthur Jordan Foundation and operated as a museum to the former president by the Benjamin Harrison Foundation History: Benjamin Harrison arrived in Indianapolis in 1854 in order to begin a career as a lawyer. In 1867, following his service in the military, he bought a double lot from an auction, on what was then the outskirts of town, on North Delaware Street, just north of present-day I-65. In 1874 construction of a house on the property began, and was completed in 1875, at the cost of $24,818.67 (equal to $566,242 today). The trend for wealthier citizens of Indianapolis to move to the north side of town started with Benjamin Harrison moving his family to 1230 Delaware Street. When built, the property featured many elm and oak trees. Except for the time Benjamin Harrison served as United States Senator from Indiana (1881–1887), and his time as President of the United States (1889–1893), he lived at the home for the rest of his life. Benjamin Harrison died in the master bedroom of the house on March 13, 1901. While running for president in 1888, Benjamin Harrison issued campaign speeches to listeners on the street outside his home, in what were called "front-porch speeches". The front porch was not built until 1896, 3 years after he left the presidency. After Benjamin Harrison's death, his widow Mary Lord Dimmick Harrison owned the property. In 1939 Mary Lord Harrison sold the house to the Arthur Jordan School of Music (now located at Butler University as the Jordan College of Fine Arts), with the proviso that the house would always serve as a memorial to Benjamin Harrison. The Arthur Jordan School renovated the house, turning the second and third floors into a dormitory for the female students of the school, and making the first floor a museum. The Benjamin Harrison Home became a National Historic Landmark in 1966. In 1974 the Arthur Jordan Foundation once again renovated the house, making it a house museum. The Arthur Jordan Foundation currently leases the house to the 1966-incorporated Benjamin Harrison Foundation in order for the latter to run a museum inside the house. Structure: The Italianate Benjamin Harrison House was built at 1230 Delaware Street from 1874 to 1875, using the plans of architect Herman T. Brandt. The red brick house has sixteen rooms. The bracketed cornices and three-story bay window are indicative of the Italianate architecture style. Interior features include an oak-trimmed walnut staircase, butternut woodwork, and parquet floors. Many renovations took place in 1896, which included electricity and the front porch. Today: Presently, the house is open for tours throughout the week. Ten of the sixteen rooms are open for visitors, all decorated in the Victorian style typical of Benjamin Harrison's time at the residence. 75% of the 3,700 pieces of memorabilia actually belonged to Benjamin Harrison and his family, and the books in the museum number 2,440. Besides archives regarding Benjamin Harrison, the house also features archives of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The front parlor is set to look as it did when Benjamin Harrison brought his new bride to the house.
Andrew Jackson's Hermitage (Entrance) thehermitage.com/ Here is the historic entrance path to the Hermitage mansion. The 1998 Nashville tornado uprooted many of the trees which lined this, so this is what the new trees look like 20 years later.
Andrew Jackson's Hermitage (Back entrance) thehermitage.com/ When I was younger, I thought this was the front. My 3rd grade class came here on a field trip, and there is a class picture of us back here. I've seen that picture more often than I saw the actual front
Andrew Jackson's Hermitage (Wide Angle) thehermitage.com/
Andrew Jackson's Hermitage - Nashville thehermitage.com/ This is about the best view you can get from the front with two large evergreen trees in front of the mansion.
Graham-Kivett House - Tazewell, TN This historic house is apparently under renovation, probably to restore it as it was when first built. The front porch and an addition in the back has been removed. (However, the stone fireplace from the back addition is still standing.) From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham-Kivett_House The Graham-Kivett House is a historic house in Tazewell, Tennessee. It was built of limestone around 1800 by William Graham, an immigrant from Ireland who co-founded of Tazewell. The house was designed in the Federal architectural style. By the turn of the 20th century, it belonged to William Yoakum, who sold it to James Kivett, a lawyer. It was inherited by his son, J. K. Kivett, who served as the county judge of Claiborne County until he was "convicted in December 1956 of taking four $1,000 county bonds to a Knoxville bank in June 1954 to obtain a personal loan of $5,400." The house remained in the Kivett family in the 1970s. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 29, 1975. See the historic marker here: seemidtn.com/gallery3/index.php?album=historical-markers%2...
Estill-Fite House This home has recently been repainted white. Other pictures I've seen of this house from 2015 or earlier have chipping white paint exposing the red bricks below. From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estill-Fite_House The Estill-Fite House is a historic house in Winchester, TN. It was built in 1860 for Francis Thomas Estill, an attorney. Estill, a graduate of the University of Nashville, was elected as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1847, and as the secretary of the board of directors of the Winchester and Alabama Railroad Company in 1857. He died in 1878, and the house remained in the Estill family until 1920. The house was purchased by the Fite family in 1950. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 23, 1979.
Avondale Station - Gallatin, TN Located south of Gallatin along US31E, this old building is now a Bed and Breakfast. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 as the "Mary Felice Ferrell House." Here is the history from their website: The Hancock House is a spacious fifteen room colonial revival log inn located in the rolling hills of middle Tennessee. Beautiful farm land lies in full view across the road and a horse farm adjoins our property. Even though we are "out in the country" we are only a few minutes outside of Gallatin and Hendersonville and just 25 miles northeast of Nashville. Prior to our purchase of the inn, Felice Ferrell was the owner and proprietor of a nationally known antique establishment for over 60 years in the main part of the inn. Historically, the inn is a pre-1851 stage coach stop and toll gate house known as Avondale Station on the famous Avery Trace. www.bbonline.com/united-states/tennessee/gallatin/hancock... Learn more here: npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/92000348
800 Russel St. - Nashville Located in the Edgefield Historic District, this home was built in 1899. It is one and one half story tall made of brick with terra cotta and stone in a Queen Anne style.
Smith-Trahern Mansion - Clarksville, TN This 1859 mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic places as the Christopher H. Smith House and is also known as the Queen of the Cumberland. The house remained in the Smith family until 1919.The house was acquired by the city of Clarskville and repurposed as a community center in 1986. From the historic marker: This mansion was built by Christopher H. Smith noted tobacco exporter and businessman. The home reflects the style between Greek Revival and Italianate popular in the 1850's. It is believed that architect Adolphus Heiman designed the building. The mansion is significant because of its association with the pre-Civil War tobacco industry in Clarksville.
W.H. Stark House - Orange, TX en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Stark_House The W.H. Stark House is a fully restored, 14,000-square-foot Victorian home located on the corner between Green Avenue and Sixth Street in Orange, TX. The W.H. Stark House was home to William Henry and Miriam Lutcher Stark, who spent a lifetime collecting rare and unique decorative objects. Miriam Melissa Lutcher moved to Orange with her parents, Henry Jacob Lutcher and Frances Ann Lutcher, in the late 1870s. Henry Jacob Lutcher was co-owner of the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company. He and his wife Frances began a philanthropic dynasty that continues to benefit the Orange community today. In 1881 Miriam M. Lutcher married William Henry Stark, who made his fortune in banking, oil, rice, insurance, and the regional timber industry. They moved into their home in 1894 and occupied it until 1936. They were passionate collectors. Their son H.J. Lutcher Stark grew up influenced by their lifetime dedication to philanthropy and the arts. When the Stark family moved into their new home, W.H. Stark was forty-three, Miriam was thirty-five, and their son Lutcher was seven. They were the only family to inhabit the house. When W.H. and Miriam Stark died in 1936, Lutcher Stark closed the house. It was vacant until 1970 when restoration began. Restoration to the era of 1894 continued for ten years, and the house was opened as a house museum for public tours on February 10, 1981. Construction on The W.H. Stark House began on June 29, 1893, with completion in 1894. The house is classified in the Queen Anne architectural style, which is characterized by long sloping roofs, second floor balconies, Jacobean chimneys, wide verandas, and octagonal or round towers. Interior ceilings are 12 feet high on the first floor, 11 feet high on the second floor, and 10 ½ feet high on the third floor. Exterior walls are ten inches thick, with two layers of diagonal storm sheeting. Interior double walls are sixteen inches thick. The floor plan is duplicated on two of the three stories, and includes a concrete basement, which is unique in Southeast Texas. Cypress was chosen as the basic material because of the damp conditions in the area. Longleaf yellow pine was used for the intricate design work. Turned pieces were formed on a foot-operated machine lathe, and each board had to be cut and measured for a precise fit. All framework was selected from the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Mills. The 14,000-square-foot home today is furnished much as it was in the 1920s, with fifteen rooms and three stories of original family furniture, carpets, silver, antique porcelains, and American Brilliant Period cut glass. The ceiling in the Music Room is oil painted on canvas by artist E. Theo Behr; it features an allegorical scene with cherubs. The house also holds many unique objects, including a one-of-a-kind sterling silver Gorham Manufacturing Company tea service in the Louis XVI style, a rare copy of the Napoleon death mask, and decorative silver and china. The W.H. Stark House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark by the Texas Historical Commission. The W.H. Stark House is owned and operated by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, a private, non-profit foundation established in 1961 in Orange, Texas. It aims to improve the quality of life in Southeast Texas by encouraging, promoting, and assisting education, the arts, and health and human services. It carries out its mission through the Stark Museum of Art, The W.H. Stark House, Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, and Lutcher Theater. These programs offer the community a rich resource for study and enjoyment of arts, history, nature and culture.
215 N. Main - Springfield, TN I've seen this called the Woodard House, built 1900.
Mell Malone House - Murfreesboro, TN This description was written by the Rutherford County Historical Society and taken from this page: www.facebook.com/RutherfordCountyTennesseeHistoricalSocie... There was once a thriving community of mostly African-Americans located on and near the present day Stones River National Battlefield; the community was known as ‘Cemetery’. Merchants, churches, ball fields, even a school named ‘Cemetery School’ served this community. The community once known as ‘Cemetery’ was settled shortly after the end of the Civil War, becoming home to the recently freed African Americans. More than thirty families called Cemetery home at Cemetery’s height between the 1870’s and 1932, the year the Stones River National Battlefield was created. Former slave Sanders Malone fought for the United States as a part of the USCT – the United States Colored Troops. Mr. Malone purchased land just after the War north of the present day Stones River National Battlefield. Edith Ann Clark Moore, only three generations away from slavery, grew up in the home across from Stones River Methodist Church. Mell Malone, Edith Ann’s grandfather, purchased the land around the turn of the century built the home. Mell Malone, with no construction nor engineering experience, built the home in 1918 of materials from his land using self-taught engineering. Two of the three arches remain today as a testament to Mr. Malone’s engineering skills. Granddaughter Edith Ann Clark Moore beams with pride when sharing, “He used trees off his land to build this house. He used stones from his land to build this house. He even made his own cement to build this house.”
Poe's Tavern (Replica) - Soddy-Daisy, TN Text of the nearby historic marker: Hasten Poe, a veteran of the War of 1812, moved from Virginia and built a log structure on this (nearby) site in 1818. The area became known as Poe’s Cross Roads, later Daisy and in 1969 Soddy Daisy. The structure was used as a tavern and inn. On October 25, 1819, Hamilton County was formed from the southern section of Rhea County. The tavern served as Hamilton County’s first courthouse and county seat. For more info see this article: www.timesfreepress.com/news/news/story/2011/jun/25/poes-t... The replica was built in 2011. The park is located along Dayton Pike (Old US27)
Dwight and Kate Wade House - Sevierville, TN The Dwight and Kate Wade House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The house was built in 1940 as a replica of a demonstration home at the Town of Tomorrow exhibit from that year's New York World's Fair. It was deigned by Verna Cook Salomonsky with a Colonial Revival exterior and Art Moderne interior. Exterior features include a slate covered gambrel roof and Parapet side pierced by a window. Learn more here: npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/97001502
Idler's Retreat - Smyrna, TN From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idler%27s_Retreat Idler's Retreat, also known as the Dillon-Tucker-Cheney House, is a historic house in Smyrna, TN. It was built circa 1865 by J. D. Dillon. In 1882, it was purchased by John F. Tucker, and renamed Tucker Place. It was designed in the Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles. By the 1940s, it was inherited by novelist Brainard Cheney's wife. The couple entertained other writers like Robert Penn Warren, Caroline Gordon, Flannery O'Connor and Allen Tate. The house was later inherited by Roy Neel, who served as the chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 19, 2004. Other notes: Original owner Joseph Dillon was a local attorney and Pro-Union legislator. The home was briefly used as a USO headquarters. Before the addition of Central Heat in 1957, the home was nicknamed "Cold Chimney's." The name Idler's Retreat is based on a George Bernard Shaw quote, “A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.” Learn more: rutherfordtnhistory.org/harbers-history-idlers-retreat-se...
Felts Log Cabin - Bowling Green, KY This log cabin was built in 1810 in Logan County, KY, but later relocated onto the campus of Western Kentucky University in 1980. It has a dog trot floor plan and is made of poplar, oak and walnut logs. It is furnished as a living history museum as part of the Kentucky Museum on campus. www.wku.edu/kentuckymuseum/exhibits/felts.php
Lancaster Cabin - Fayetteville, TN This log cabin is located in Stone Bridge Park in Fayetteville, TN. I don't have any info on this cabin other than the plaque dedicated to Celia Lancaster Oldham (1952-2011) in front of it.
Noah "Bud" Ogle Place - House (view B) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Ogle_Place The Noah "Bud" Ogle Place was a homestead located in the Great Smoky Mountains of Sevier County, TN. The homestead presently consists of a cabin, barn, and tub mill built by mountain farmer Noah "Bud" Ogle (1863–1913) in the late 19th century. In 1977, the homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places and is currently maintained by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The surviving structures at the Noah Ogle Place are characteristic of a typical 19th-century Southern Appalachian mountain farm. Ogle's cabin is a type known as a "saddlebag" cabin (two single-pen cabins joined by a common chimney), which was a relatively rare design in the region. Ogle's barn is an excellent example of a four-pen barn, a design once common in the area, although this barn is the last remaining four-pen barn in the park. Ogle's tub mill is the park's last surviving operational tub mill and one of the few operational tub mills in the region. A later owner of the Ogle farm renamed the farm "Junglebrook," and the farm is thus sometimes referred to as the "Junglebrook Historic District." The Noah Ogle Place is situated near LeConte Creek (formerly known as Mill Creek) in the upper drainage of the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River. Gatlinburg lies opposite the park boundary to the north, Roaring Fork lies opposite the hills to the east, the Sugarlands lies opposite the hills to the west, and Mount Le Conte rises to the south. Cherokee Orchard Road (still occasionally referred to as Airport Road) connects the Noah Ogle Place to U.S. Route 441 in downtown Gatlinburg to the north and to the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail to the south. The site's tub mill is situated on the banks of LeConte Creek, approximately 0.5 miles from the cabin and barn. Noah Ogle's great-grandparents, William Ogle (1756–1803) and his wife Martha Huskey (1756–1826), were the first Euro-American settlers in the Gatlinburg area, arriving in the early 19th century (their cabin still stands in downtown Gatlinburg). The Ogles' descendants quickly spread out into the adjacent river and creek valleys. Noah Ogle's farm originally consisted of 400 acres, although by the early 20th century he had subdivided his land among his children, and retained only 150 acres. These last 150 acres comprise the bulk of the Bud Ogle Farm historic district. Ogle's cabin and outbuildings were built in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The land was poor and rocky (the National Park Service later claimed it was "unsuitable" for farming), and Ogle mostly grew corn. The land did include a sizeable apple orchard which grew multiple types of apples. Ogle's relatives were allowed free use of his tub mill, while others were charged a small percentage of meal. Excess corn and apples were shipped to markets in Knoxville. Ogle's wife, Lucinda Bradley Ogle, was a local midwife. In the 1920s, several investors established a 796-acre (322 ha) commercial apple orchard and ornamental nursery known as "Cherokee Orchard" just south of the Ogle homestead. When the Tennessee Park Commission began buying up property for the creation of the national park in the late 1920s, the owners of Cherokee Orchard threatened to fight a major appropriations for bill for the park's funding if their land was condemned. The orchard's owners dropped their opposition in 1931 in exchange for a long lease on the property. Noah Ogle cabin The Noah Ogle cabin consists of two cabins sharing a single chimney, known as a "saddlebag" cabin. The cabins were built approximately five years apart, the second cabin being added as Ogle's family grew. Both cabins measure 18 feet by 20 feet, and each consists of one story and a loft. The cabin's walls consist of hewn logs connected by half-dovetail notches, with six doors (one on the front and back wall of each cabin, and two next to the chimney to allow quick passage between the two buildings). Each cabin has a split-oak shingled roof, a sawn board floor, and hearths made of rubble. The cabin's windows were initially shuttered, but eventually replaced with glass. One cabin has a small window near the floor that allowed chickens to enter to escape predators. A covered porch spans both the front and back walls of both cabins. Ogle barn The Ogle barn is the last remaining four-pen barn in the park. It consists of four 11-square-foot pens, each one story with a loft, covered by a split-shingled roof. Like the cabin, the barn's walls are constructed of hewn logs connected by half-dovetail notches. The park service made numerous repairs to the barn in the 1960s.
Noah "Bud" Ogle Place - House (View A) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Ogle_Place The Noah "Bud" Ogle Place was a homestead located in the Great Smoky Mountains of Sevier County, TN. The homestead presently consists of a cabin, barn, and tub mill built by mountain farmer Noah "Bud" Ogle (1863–1913) in the late 19th century. In 1977, the homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places and is currently maintained by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The surviving structures at the Noah Ogle Place are characteristic of a typical 19th-century Southern Appalachian mountain farm. Ogle's cabin is a type known as a "saddlebag" cabin (two single-pen cabins joined by a common chimney), which was a relatively rare design in the region. Ogle's barn is an excellent example of a four-pen barn, a design once common in the area, although this barn is the last remaining four-pen barn in the park. Ogle's tub mill is the park's last surviving operational tub mill and one of the few operational tub mills in the region. A later owner of the Ogle farm renamed the farm "Junglebrook," and the farm is thus sometimes referred to as the "Junglebrook Historic District." The Noah Ogle Place is situated near LeConte Creek (formerly known as Mill Creek) in the upper drainage of the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River. Gatlinburg lies opposite the park boundary to the north, Roaring Fork lies opposite the hills to the east, the Sugarlands lies opposite the hills to the west, and Mount Le Conte rises to the south. Cherokee Orchard Road (still occasionally referred to as Airport Road) connects the Noah Ogle Place to U.S. Route 441 in downtown Gatlinburg to the north and to the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail to the south. The site's tub mill is situated on the banks of LeConte Creek, approximately 0.5 miles from the cabin and barn. Noah Ogle's great-grandparents, William Ogle (1756–1803) and his wife Martha Huskey (1756–1826), were the first Euro-American settlers in the Gatlinburg area, arriving in the early 19th century (their cabin still stands in downtown Gatlinburg). The Ogles' descendants quickly spread out into the adjacent river and creek valleys. Noah Ogle's farm originally consisted of 400 acres, although by the early 20th century he had subdivided his land among his children, and retained only 150 acres. These last 150 acres comprise the bulk of the Bud Ogle Farm historic district. Ogle's cabin and outbuildings were built in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The land was poor and rocky (the National Park Service later claimed it was "unsuitable" for farming), and Ogle mostly grew corn. The land did include a sizeable apple orchard which grew multiple types of apples. Ogle's relatives were allowed free use of his tub mill, while others were charged a small percentage of meal. Excess corn and apples were shipped to markets in Knoxville. Ogle's wife, Lucinda Bradley Ogle, was a local midwife. In the 1920s, several investors established a 796-acre (322 ha) commercial apple orchard and ornamental nursery known as "Cherokee Orchard" just south of the Ogle homestead. When the Tennessee Park Commission began buying up property for the creation of the national park in the late 1920s, the owners of Cherokee Orchard threatened to fight a major appropriations for bill for the park's funding if their land was condemned. The orchard's owners dropped their opposition in 1931 in exchange for a long lease on the property. Noah Ogle cabin The Noah Ogle cabin consists of two cabins sharing a single chimney, known as a "saddlebag" cabin. The cabins were built approximately five years apart, the second cabin being added as Ogle's family grew. Both cabins measure 18 feet by 20 feet, and each consists of one story and a loft. The cabin's walls consist of hewn logs connected by half-dovetail notches, with six doors (one on the front and back wall of each cabin, and two next to the chimney to allow quick passage between the two buildings). Each cabin has a split-oak shingled roof, a sawn board floor, and hearths made of rubble. The cabin's windows were initially shuttered, but eventually replaced with glass. One cabin has a small window near the floor that allowed chickens to enter to escape predators. A covered porch spans both the front and back walls of both cabins. Ogle barn The Ogle barn is the last remaining four-pen barn in the park. It consists of four 11-square-foot pens, each one story with a loft, covered by a split-shingled roof. Like the cabin, the barn's walls are constructed of hewn logs connected by half-dovetail notches. The park service made numerous repairs to the barn in the 1960s.
514 Russel St. - Nashville, TN The home at 514 Russel St. is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Edgefield Historic District. Here is the relevant portion of the district's nomination form: The Edgefield area contains a number of large city houses, built for the wealthy in the late nineteenth century, which display the variety and eclecticism of the nineteenth-century Victorian domestic architecture. Among these houses are two examples of the Dutch Renaissance style, one at 514 Russell Street and the other at 714 Russell. Both are built of red brick with contrasting stone trim and both have a projecting bay at the left side of the façade topped by a stepped Dutch gable. The house at 514 Russell Street is the more ornate and less formal of the two, with its free gable and chimney treatment and its fanciful stone trim and veranda woodwork.
502 Madison St. - Clarksville, TN I don't have confirmation of this, but it looks like this was a historic home which was converted into a bank. If so, it is probably listed on the National register of Historic Places as part of the Madison Street Historic District, unless they felt the bank altered the structure too much.
Clark Family Log Cabin - Andalusia, AL This log cabin is located on the grounds of the Three Notch Museum in Andalusia.
Wilson House - Ridgetop, TN This 1895 home is now the Ridgetop Historical Society Museum and is named after the prior owners who sold it to the city. It is located at Ridgetop Station Park and the grounds around the home are an arboretum.
Rose Mont - Gallatin, TN From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Mont Rose Mont was built by Judge Josephus Conn Guild (1802–1883) for his family. It was begun in 1836 and completed in 1842. All of the materials for its construction were obtained on the property. Rose Mont's architecture is a blend of Greek Revival and Palladian styles. These architectural styles not commonly seen in Middle Tennessee homes of the era, which is typified by Federal or Georgian-style houses with a front entry hall containing a staircase to the second floor. Judge Guild's departure from the local architectural fashions was due to his favorable impression of the Creole-style houses he had seen on frequent trips to Louisiana. Creole elements in Rose Mont include the use of loggias and galleries to connect separate wings, wide porches, open-air halls and staircases, large windows, a raised basement, and an over-hanging roof. The house's main façade employed a classic Italian design by Andrea Palladio, whose influence is seen in the design of many mid-19th century plantation houses in the southern United States. Rose Mont faces the east, so hot summer sun never falls on the main parlor, keeping it cooler. The name of the house derived from a large rose garden that Judge Guild's wife, Catherine Blackmore Guild (1803–1875), maintained on the north side of the house. In its early years, the house was the center for a 500-acre working farm that raised thoroughbred horses and longhorn cattle. In 1978, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name "Rosemont". It was occupied by members of the Guild family from its construction until 1993, when it was acquired by the City of Gallatin and the Rose Mont Restoration Foundation. It is open Tuesdays through Saturdays for guided tours from April 15 through October 31. The mansion and its reception hall are available for rental to the public.
McNabb House - Richmond, TX From the historic Marker: Phillip Vogel, a German merchant, built this residence in the 1850s. It reflects the simple Greek revival style popular at the time. A. D. McNabb, owner of a saddlery shop, bought the property in 1887. He married Charlien Gloyd, daughter of temperance crusader Carry Nation, who operated a boarding house in Richmond in the 1880s. The McNabb family owned the house until 1972, when it was moved from its original location at 202 Jackson Street. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1979
Model Electric Home - Chattanooga This home was built in 1925 by the Chattanooga Electric League to demonstrate the newest innovations of electric products. The home featured modern wiring systems, lighting and appliance from League members such as Westinghouse, GE and local power companies. The builders specifically chose to make the home Middle to Upper Middle Class to demonstrate people didn't need to be rich to own these newest products. The exterior of the home has a Tudor architectural style which was popular in the 1920s. The walls seen here feature a stucco covered fireproof clay tile. It remained a model home for about a year when it was sold to become a private residence. The section on the right is a modern addition. This home has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. If this interests you, I recommend reading the nominating form here, which also includes the text of the 1925 brochure about the home found in the home in 1979 during a remodel. npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/d3f09179-a191-4dd8-b3ed-f09932... This link includes pictures of the interior, including wall sockets which are not used today: npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/79a4d16b-1c51-4998-9945-b19c83...
Granville Babb Sprouse House - Greenbrier, TN When this home was completed circa 1895, it represented a stylish Late Victorian era home in the small community in Greenbrier. Mr. Sprouse was a prominent tobacco businessman in Robertson County. Today, the house is operated as a local history museum. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For more info and vintage pictures, check the NRHP link below: npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/81ab1016-57da-481a-8d15-770...
Jesse James house in Nashville I knew Jesse James lived in the Nashville area because of this historic marker in White's Creek. I figured if his house was still around, more people would know about it. Then I found this link: https://rs.locationshub.com/Home/LocationDetail?rsLocationId=052-10001560 (Link doesn't work for some reason) This home is located at 711 Fatherland St. in the Edgefield neighborhood. Jesse James lived here under the alias J.D. Howard from late 1876 to March 25, 1881. The home is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Edgefield Historic District. The house was then abandoned in the 1970s, then condemned and scheduled for demolition in 1983. Thankfully, it was purchased and restored. The Jesse James aspect of the house was not mentioned in the National Register listing, so there must be some doubt if the James family actually lived here. Here is the text from the listing: Among the oldest buildings in Edgefield is the house at 711 Fatherland Street. Built before 1850 in a simple vernacular style, its red brick two-story main block is topped by a simple pitched roof. On the lower floor are a door and two six over six light window above which are three windows on the second floor. A hip roofed veranda with simple supports runs the width of the façade. Cinder-block additions have been built on the rear of the house but do not affect the façade.
Hamilton-Toliver Log House This log home is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Hamilton-Toliver Complex. The log home is the central part of the registry listing which also includes a smokehouse, a 1950s general store and milk storage house, and the site of a cannery. Here is the text of the nomination form: npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/fab4e446-29b2-435a-b1b9-c2ae89... The Hamilton-Tolliver Log House is a one and one-half story and one story saddlebag log house built ca.1830 and still on its original site. Facing north, the house exhibits two discontinuous, slightly dimensionally asymmetrical pens located to the east and west of a central chimney, each covered with a separate gable roof. Whether these pens were built at the same time is not known with certainty, but they are likely to have been built within a few years of each other. The east pen measures 21' x 22', the west pen 24' x 22'. The logs, largely original yellow poplar (though with a few replacement members) exhibit half-dovetail corner joinery. The gable ends of the upper half-story are clad in unfinished wood siding. The primary roof, as well as those of the front and rear porches, is sheathed in standing seam tin. The current porches uniting the pens on the front and rear elevations were added in the 1920s. The foundation of the house displays a combination of early twentieth century form-poured concrete and more contemporary concrete block and sandstone veneer. The central chimney features a tripartite materials composition, including a poured-concrete foundation, a limestone base/hearth mid-section, and an upper flue section built of brick (partially replaced in 1988 with salvaged bricks from a neighboring structure). Fenestration in the single story (with attic) west pen includes a centrally placed single, wood paneled door entry on the north (front) elevation; a single six-over-six double-hung window on the west elevation; a single six-over-six double-hung window and single door entry on the south (rear) elevation. Additionally, the west pen features a hand-dug root cellar accessible from the east side just south of the chimney foundation, added in 1933. Fenestration in the one and one-half story east pen includes a single offset door in the north (front) elevation with two six-over-six double-hung windows flanking the door to the east. The upper half-story displays a single, fixed, three light window on the north elevation. The east elevation of the east pen features a single, symmetrically placed, double-hung twelve light window on the ground level (possibly replacing an earlier door), and a door entry inaccessible from the exterior on the upper half-story (likely for lifting furniture into the upper story). The south (rear) elevation of the east pen features a single, symmetrically placed simple wood paneled door entry. The windows and doors of both pens of the log house date at least to the 1920s, according to oral testimony of Irene Tolliver Hamilton, who was born in the house in 1918. The Hamilton-Tolliver log house retains a simple and unadorned interior. Both pens feature wood flooring (original in the west pen, with replacement tongue and groove added to the east pen in the 1920s), plain log interior walls (which have never been covered in paneling or plaster), exposed rafter ceilings, large limestone segmental arched fireplace/hearths emanating from the common central chimney, and continuous open single-room floor plans. The east pen includes a boxed stair with partial hand-hewn rail in the southeast corner providing access to the upper half-story room. The east pen's upper half-story features ceilings sloping sharply from the ridge. All surfaces in this upper room are covered in light colored wallpaper, a practice common in the early to mid-twentieth century to brighten interiors of otherwise dark, unfinished wood walls. The west pen appears to have functioned primarily as the kitchen pen, while the east pen was utilized as the primary living space. The cellar, hand dug beneath the west pen in 1933, served as a clandestine distillery as well as a general cold storage area. While the Hamilton-Tolliver House exhibits some minor alterations to the historic fabric and design executed in 1988, these are all sympathetic to the original structure and necessary to the building's continued preservation. Exterior changes include the stabilization of the west elevation's (west pen) crumbling foundation with new stone veneer, concrete block foundation, and the replacement of the first-course log with an equivalent replacement number. Likewise, some deteriorated siding and window trim was replaced in the west gable. The east foundation was stabilized in a similar manner. Deteriorated siding and trim were also replaced on the east pen, but only as needed. The structural integrity of the east pen roof was rehabilitated with the installation of new support rafters. However, the original rafters were left in place. The top third of the chimney was reconstructed using salvaged bricks to its appearance in photographs from 1979 (before the chimney collapsed). The rotting floor and upright posts of the front porch were also replaced and the roofing replaced with in kind, material (tin). Much of the exterior chinking was replaced in 1928. Interior changes include spot repairs to the chinking, and the replacement of broken window panes. The deteriorated ceiling of the east pen was also replaced with wood approximating the original. Likewise, wallpaper was replaced with approximate replica material, All of these changes were necessary to stabilize the house. Their execution was done with attention to detail and care in replicating historic materials as closely as possible. As the founding building and domestic epicenter of the larger complex, the house adequately conveys the historical continuity of the site when considered collectively.
Martha Jane Ogle Cabin - Gatlinburg There is a marker by the door, but I'm not sure when it was placed. This cabin moved circa 2016. At the time, it was US441 at Cherokee Orchard Rd. while Arrowmont School owner the property. Today, the spot is the parking lot next to Anakeesta. It's new location is where US321 (East Parkway) and US441 split. According to the marker: This cabin is the first house built in what is now Gatlinburg. About 1802, William Ogle selected a building site near here, in what he called "the Land of Paradise." Ogle cut and hewed the logs for the house and then retuned to South Carolina to bring his family of five sons, two daughters and his wife, Martha Jane. Unfortunately, he fell ill and died in 1803. In 1807, Martha Jane returned with her family and brother, Peter Husky and his family, and built the cabin you now see. The farm was sold to Pi Beta Phi as the settlement school expanded in 1921. The cabin was utilized as a hospital and then as a museum of mountain artifacts gathered by the school staff. As the Arrowmont School expanded again n 1969, the cabin was moved and then later moved to its present site (originally the site of the first church building in the community). The cabin has been listed on the National Register of Historic Sites since 1986.
821 Fatherland St. One of many houses on the National Regoster of Historic Places as part of the Edgefield Historic District in East Nashville. On the register, it is described as a one story clapboard cottage with Eastlake veranda, built in the late 19th century.
Risley-Head House - La Grange, KY Today, this is the Peyton Samuel Head Family Museum on the Oldham History Center Campus. Here is their description: touroldham.com/history-center-campus/ The Peyton Samuel Head Family Museum, originally built in the 1840’s, is now an interactive and interpretive community museum. Peyton Samuel Head (Sept. 8, 1849-Nov. 28, 1928) was a banker and landowner in Oldham County during the early 20th century. He invested in real estate, was one of the county’s earliest bankers, was town treasurer and served as deputy sheriff of Oldham County. Head’s daughter, Louise Head Dodge Duncan (b. about 1900-d. Dec. 30, 1990), inherited her father’s estate. In her will, she donated her home to the Oldham County Historical Society for the site of the current museum. Mrs. Duncan believed in giving back to the community, as proven by leaving the majority of her estate (over $5 million) in a trust for charitable groups in Oldham County. She owned the Archives building at one time as well. The museum has undergone a complete renovation as part of a $2 million capital campaign project for the entire campus. It has been added onto over time, and is painted in historically correct colors on the exterior, and trimmed in Victorian era scrollwork. This home is also part of the Central La Grange Historic District. From the National Register of Historic Places: 108 North Second Avenue. 1840s/c. 1890. Extremely significant as the grandest and most elaborate Victorian house remaining in La Grange. A two-story, weatherboarded, Victorian Eclectic house with an "I" house core, two large two-story additions that make it almost square in plan, and several one-story rear additions. House is said to have evolved from an early one-story dwelling into the present structure. Queen Anne detailing dates from c. 1890 and consists of decorative shingle-work in the cross gable and gable ends and in a second floor shingle band, one- and two-story bays, cut-away corners with sawn-work spandrels, and a cornice detailed with a chain-link motif applied in relief. The c. 1920 massive wraparound porch with a rusticated concrete block railing and battered, paneled posts is Craftsman in detailing. Judge I. T. Risley lived in this house through the 1870s and is responsible for some improvements; P. S. Head, one of the founders of and second president of the Oldham Bank and a prominent dealer in real estate, owned the house for many years and completed the changes after he moved in in the 1880s. Lot is surrounded on the east and north by a historic cast-iron fence.
Bell Buckle Boarding House I believe this house was built about 150 years ago to house students at the Webb School in Bell Buckle. While the Webb School is about half of a mile East of the middle of Bell Buckle, this house is on the other side of town, about half a mile west of town on Webb Rd. (TN82).
The House Made out of Coal In 1926, it took 42 tons of coal to build this house in Middlesboro, KY. Today, this house made of one of the area's most abundant natural resources serves as the town's Chamber of Commerce.
Home of Sleepy John Estes Sleepy John Estes was a Blues Pioneer who lived near Brownsville, TN. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_John_Estes He lived in poverty and his two-room house is now on display at the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center museum right off the interstate in Brownsville, TN. On the right side of this picture, this museum is best known for it's Tina Turner exhibit inside her childhood school which was also relocated here.
The Hart-Brown House - Springfield, TN This log house is at J. Travis Price Park outside of Springfield, TN. Here is the marker for this house: One of the oldest standing structures in Robertson County, this building once played a major role in the economy of Springfield. Originally built on Hwy. 76E, two miles east of here, it was the home of Joseph and Nancy Ann Hart about 1796. Jordan S. Brown purchased the hart farm in 1880 from distillery owner Elbert Duncan. Soon after, Brown began to manufacture whiskey under the name Wartrace Distillery. During that time, Robertson County whisky has a national and an international reputation as some of the best whiskey produced in the world. Local distillers were known as highly skilled practitioners of their craft. By 1885, Wartrace Distillery produced 27,674 gallons of whiskey. The prestige of Robertson County whiskey made the industry grow, and generated many jobs in the county. From 1877 until 1903, the Tennessee General Assembly passed a series of "bone dry" laws, prohibiting the sale and manufacture of spirits. A vote held in Springfield in early 1903 brought an end to whiskey's powerful economic force. This action made Springfield "dry" for the first time in its over 100-year history. When the Wartrace Distillery closed, this building returned to being a home for tenant farmers, but remained under the ownership of the Brown family until 1973. In 1995, the home was threatened by demolition. Volunteers worked to save and restore it. A year later it was moved to this park.
1789 Log House - Hancock County I don't have any info on this old house I photographed along highway TN63 (Mulberry Gap Rd.) in Hancock County. I googled it and can't find anything, such as a National Register of Historic Places listing. I also tried to email the county tourism dept. with no response. It looks like old-fashioned hand-cut logs, chimney in the middle and a date of 1789 in the middle. At some point, it has been updated with a new roof and clapboard over the top half.
Rutherford County's First Switchboard Operator's House This home built in 1916 in Rockvale was the residence of Ada Rowland, Switchboard Operator for Home Mutual Telephone Company. She was the first Switchboard Operator in Rutherford County. In the earliest days of telephones, switchboards were placed inside the Operator's home so she could place a phone call any time day or night. Ada's home, along with the switchboard inside, were moved to Cannonsburgh Village in Murfreesboro. This Village is a collection of historic structures from the Rutherford County area moved to this spot as part of America's Bicentennial in 1976. Cannonsburgh is the original name of Murfreesboro. Check out my video of Cannonsburgh Village including this home here: youtu.be/3aMSDLB7Vls
Rock House - Sparta, TN The roadgeek part of me wants to point out a note before reading below. the original road passed in front of this house. When the new highway was built which runs behind the house, the original road was then routed to the left. From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta_Rock_House The Sparta Rock House State Historic Site is a stone building near Sparta, Tennessee, United States, that once served as a rest stop and tollhouse. Built in the late 1830s, the Rock House catered to traffic along an important wagon road between Knoxville and Nashville, offering badly needed lodging and supplies to travelers who had just crossed (or were about to cross, depending on their direction) the rugged Cumberland Plateau. The Rock House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 for its architecture and its historical role as an important rest stop. The Rock House was probably built by either Samuel Denton or brothers Barlow and Madison Fiske, and initially operated by the latter two. Early guests at the Rock House included presidents Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk, and Governor Sam Houston. It was home to a tollhouse and supply store until at least the 1850s, and was used as a school at various times between 1880 and 1921. Due primarily to the efforts of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the state purchased and began restoring the Rock House in the 1940s. The Rock House is currently operated as a State Historic Site under an agreement with the Tennessee Historical Commission. Location: The Sparta Rock House is located at the junction of U.S. Route 70 and White County Highway 2220 (Country Club Road). The Rock House property sits on a shelf-like slope that lies along the physiographic boundary between the Cumberland Plateau to the east and the Highland Rim to west. The elevation of US-70 is approximately 900 feet at Sparta (on the Highland Rim), 1,300 feet as it passes the Rock House, and just over 1,800 feet as it tops out at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau. The Rock House State Historic Site property includes a large plot of woodland that extends east from the Rock House to Old Bon Air Road. History: The Walton Road, an early wagon road connecting Knoxville and Nashville, forked at Crossville atop the Cumberland Plateau. The main branch (roughly following the modern US-70N) continued northwestward to what is now Monterey, while a second branch (roughly following the modern US-70) proceeded westward to what is now Sparta. To provide a rest stop for travelers along the latter branch, the Rock House was built on the property of local farmer Samuel Denton sometime between 1835 and 1839. While sources are unclear as to whether Denton or the Fiske brothers, Barlow and Madison, built the Rock House, the Fiske brothers were nevertheless in possession of the structure by 1839. There is no definitive evidence that Barlow and Madison Fiske were brothers. Along with providing a nightly stopover, the Rock House was used as a tollhouse until the late 1850s, as wagon roads during this period were often contracted out to local operators. The construction of the Bon Air Hotel atop the Plateau a few miles to the east in the 1840s no doubt brought increased traffic to the Rock House, although the hotel was destroyed during the U.S. Civil War. In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, the Rock House was used variously as a residence and a school, known simply as the "Rock House School." In 1941, the Daughters of the American Revolution obtained appropriations from the Tennessee state government to purchase and restore the Rock House, which it operated as a public museum and meeting place for its local chapter. A local craftsman named Clifton Broyle completed numerous renovations at the Rock House in the 1960s. Design: The Rock House was originally a rectangular structure built of native sandstone quarried in the vicinity. A partition once divided the structure into two rooms, but that partition has been removed, and the original section of the structure now consists of one large room. A 1909 photograph shows a partially enclosed front porch spanning the front wall, but by the 1940s the porch had been torn down. In the mid-20th century, a new rear section was added to the structure, built of the same type of stone, but containing modern conveniences. The interior of the Rock House has large fireplaces at both ends of the original structure, and the wooden doors, window frames, ceiling, floor, and mantels are all original.
Neat old house in Washington, GA This home is located along Business Highway US78 and is part of the West Robert Toombs District on the National Register of Historic Places.
Patten House - Chattanooga Z.C. Patten was wealthy and his family lived in this 1893 home in Chattanooga. Their daughter Dorothy Patten became a noted theater actress and producer. upon the death of her parents, Dorothy donated the home on Oak St. to the adjacent University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Today, UTC uses the home for Alumni Affairs Department. Also of note are two Civil War cannons in the yard. (Only one is seen here.) This home is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Fort Wood Historic District. Here is the listing from the nomination form: irregular in shape, 2-1/2 stories, brick, hipped roof with gables, entrance area has arcaded recessed porch formed with bricks resting on coupled stone columns, stone balusters; above this 1-story porch is a parapet. On the façade at the first floor level and around the entire house on the second level and around the dormers and gables is a cornice with varying sizes of identical brackets. Above most of the windows are arches made of radiating bricks. The roof is slate and has tiles placed along the ridge lines.
Sabine Hill Note: this photo was taken in 2011 when the property was endangered and not open to the public. I took this photo while a passenger in a car along highway US321. There are more trees today, making this a tougher view, but you can go visit it now. From Wikipedia: Sabine Hill, also known as Happy Valley, Watauga Point, and the General Nathaniel Taylor House, is a historic house in Elizabethton, Tennessee. The two-story Federal style building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is an excellent example of federal architecture. It was threatened by demolition in 2007 when the owners sought to have the property rezoned for apartments. The rezoning request was denied and the home was bought by several preservation-minded locals who secured it until the State of Tennessee/Tennessee Historical Commission could purchase the museum-quality property. It is now restored and opened to the public on November 1, 2017, as a unit of Sycamore Shoals State Park. The property is operated by the Park under a memorandum of understanding with the Tennessee Historical Commission. Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hill Google map view: www.google.com/maps/@36.3275273,-82.2699079,3a,75y,124.05...
Colonel A. M. Shook House - Tracy City, TN en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_A._M._Shook_House The Colonel A. M. Shook House (also known as Boyd House) is a historic residence in Tracy City, TN. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 1, 1987. The house, located at the junction of Railroad Avenue and Montgomery Streets, was built in 1890 for Colonel Alfred Montgomery Shook, prominent in the coal industry in Grundy County. The 2 1⁄2-story frame house was designed in the Second Empire architectural style.
Rock Martin House The Rock Martin House, Circa 1820, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Martin-Miller Farm. This area of Warren County used to be known as Rowland Station. This house and farm are located along Old Rock Island Road, which is part of the original alignment of the Memphis-to-Bristol Highway and TN1, but the modern US70S is 1000 ft. to the east. Learn more here: npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/05000727
The Murder Bordello - Galena, KS This interesting house located along Route 66 in Galena, KS wasn't on any trip itinerary I read before making my travel. However, the semicircular stained glass window does get your attention. The home is known as the Galena Murder Bordello. The claim is this was the house used by Ma Steffleback. (The claim about the house can't today be validated, probably isn't even true, but I'll pretend it's true.) She was a Madam and this was her house of prostitution. In the 1890's, she and her accomplice family killed dozens of clients. This home sat in disrepair for many decades. However, a story like "Galena's Bloody Madam" can make for a profitable destinations these days. Starting in 2014, local investors bought the property and renovated it. Throw in a few ghost stories and today, it is open for tours and AirBnB. learn more of the story: www.joplinglobe.com/news/local_news/effort-under-way-to-s...
Boyhood Home of Mickey Mantle - Commerce, OK You can see my video of the home and nearby statue here: youtu.be/Wj3czcclm0A Text of the historic marker to the left of the door: Boyhood Home of Mickey Mantle (Where Mickey Learned to Play the Game) 319 South Quincy Street When Mickey was 3 years old his family moved to this location. At the age of 5 or 6 his father started teaching him to hit, they used the tin barn as their backstop. Mutt, his father, would pitch righty and Mickey's grandfather would pitch lefty while teaching him the fine art of switch-hitting. Everyday when his father returned home from the mines he and Mickey would start batting practice that lasted until dark. They made up games to add some fun to Mickey's batting lessons. A ball hit below the windows was a single, above the windows a double, the roof a triple and over the house was a home run. Mickey once said, "I was the only kid in town that didn't get in trouble for breaking a window." Mutt's dream and Mickey's hard work took him from the lead and zinc mining district in Oklahoma to the skyscrapers and bright lights of New York City. Mickey, "The Commerce Comet," blasted onto the national scene in the 1950's to become A Great American Icon. He entertained the world with his boyish Oklahoma charm and his amazing Paul Bunyan-like heroics. His tremendous popularity is what sparked the massive sports memorabilia industry that continues to flourish today. Home restoration Circa 1938 Mickey was 7 years old
Hubbard House - Nashville, TN From Wikipedia: The Hubbard House is a historic house in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.. It was built in 1921 for Dr George W. Hubbard, the then-president of Meharry Medical College, an African-American medical school. It was built on its original campus, and its construction was funded by trustees and alumni. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 14, 1973
Nalley-Martin House - Gainesville, GA The Nalley-Martin House is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Green Street District. Learn more: www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/history/green-street-house-...
The 214 House - Murfreesboro Today, this 1880 house is known as the 214 House as this is it's street address along Main Street. It is listed on the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities (APTA) as the East Main St. Church of Christ Parsonage. Because I know someone who frequents this place, I know it's this congregation's outreach to MTSU students, providing a place to for social gatherings or have a quiet place to study. www.the214house.com/
Patsy Cline's Dream House - Goodlettsville, TN According to the historic marker: This is the "dream house" of country music icon Patsy Cline, born Virginia Patterson Hensley in 1932. Roy Acuff offered her a job by the age of 16, but she opted to sing with a local group back home in Winchester, Va. She changed her name in 1953 and debuted on the Grand Ole Opry in 1955. She got her big break in 1957 singing "Walkin' After Midnight" on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. In 1973, she became the first female solo artist inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. This is in Goodlettsville, a suburb of Nashville on the north side. She and her husband bought the house in 1962. She only lived in the house for one year before dying in a plane crash. The home was then sold to Wilma Burgess. The home was up for sale a year ago. Thus, many pictures from the inside were available on real estate websites. tasteofcountry.com/patsy-cline-house-home-pictures-nashvi...
Trousdale-Baskerville House - Gallatin, TN en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousdale-Baskerville_House The Trousdale-Baskerville House, also known as Baskerville House and Maywood, is a historic house in Gallatin, TN. The house was built in 1838 for Richard H. May, the owner of plantations near Natchez, Mississippi who sold it to Benjamin Franklin Simpson in 1839. It was owned by Colonel George Elliott, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the First Seminole War who owned Wall Spring, from 1842 to 1846, when it was purchased by Dr. John Washington Franklin. During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, Franklin joined the Confederate States Army as a surgeon. From 1869 to 1900, the house belonged to Charles Trousdale, a Confederate veteran who was the son of Tennessee Governor William Trousdale. It belonged to Rebecca Donelson Dismukes from 1901 to 1911, when it was purchased by J.T. Baskerville. The house was designed in the Federal architectural style. It was later redesigned in the Late Victorian and Colonial Revival architectural styles. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 30, 2009.
Colorful House - Crawford, GA I went to visit the train station in town when I saw this house a block away. I wanted to get a closer look.
Ransome-Morgan House - Bell Buckle, TN This house next door to the Webb School is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Bell Buckle Historic District. From that entry: Marked by five-bay symmetry with a projecting windows at the center bay on the façade, this clapboard/frame house also has carved gingerbread ornaments at each gable end.
Miller-Steiner House - Bell Buckle, TN The Miller-Steiner House along Cumberland St. is entry #21 on the Bell Buckle Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. Here is the text of the entry: Large, clapboard/frame, 2 & a half story, Victorian residence, asymmetric plan, hip roof, L shape veranda, shingle-clad gables. Dormer features a Palladian style window. Includes an independent cellar with brick entranceway. (Note: the cellar is seen on the far right and Earth is built around it sloping halfway tall in the back.)
Riley H. Andes House - Sevierville, TN en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_H._Andes_House The house was built in 1867 for Riley H. Andes, his wife, Rebecca Rimel, and their daughter Sallie. The Italianate and Queen Anne woodcarving was designed by Lewis Buckner, an African-American carpenter, in 1890. After Riley Andes's death in 1917, their daughter Sallie, who was married to J. W. Trotter, rented the house, until she sold it to John Denton in 1942. It is now home to the Robert A. Tino Gallery, named after a local painter. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 8, 1980.
Oehmig House - Winchester, TN All I know about this house in Winchester came from a marker on the town square regarding Civil War sites. It says: During the war, the Oehmig house was used as a hospital for soldiers with contagious diseases and called The Pest House.
Dr. Ashley W. Trotter House - Sevierville, TN updated description, taken from the Sevierville Historic Walking Tour Stop #7: visitsevierville.com/Images/pdfs/SeviervilleHistoricWalki... A fine representation of Victorian style, Dr. Ashley W. Trotter built the three-story clapboard structure in 1892. Artisan Lewis Buckner, a nineteenth century African-Americas craftsman created the gingerbread trim gables and butterfly wings on the sides of the bay windows, as well as the dumb-bell dowels on the exterior facade. The interior is an exhibit of geometric designs and floral carvings. The house is currently a private residence.
Judge Faulkner's Cabin - Sallisaw, OK This cabin was built by Judge Franklin Faulkner during the 1840s. He married a Cherokee woman and was forced along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma. This cabin, plus a couple of others, along with a caboose and general store are part of the 14 Flags Museum in Sallinaw.
Moonshining Melungeon Mahala's Cabin - Vardy, TN She was "Catchable, but not Fetchable." Located in Vardy Valley of rural Hancock County in East Tennessee is a seemingly ordinary log cabin which had an extraordinary owner. Aunt Mahala was a 600lb. moonshiner. The cops knew where she was but couldn't get her out of the cabin. Mahala was also a Melungeon, a race of people of unknown origin in this area. youtu.be/3-yVifziViw In the linked video, I take a look around Mahalia's cabin, talk more about her story and the local Melungeons.
Harrell Farm Log Cabin See the marker here: seemidtn.com/gallery5/index.php?album=historical-markers/... This log cabin was moved to the Arlington, TN city center after being saved by the Arlington chapter of the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities in 1991.
Interesting House in Tazewell, TN Here is a house I found in the historic district of Tazewell, TN, but I can't find the history of it. All I see is the build date of 1905. It has many interesting architectural features such as a stone exterior, decorative shingles, all of the first and second story windows are topped by a semicircular arch, plus an octagon window on the top floor. Then, there's also all the red bricks along the front which I think look ugly. Maybe the strips of yellow bricks help, but it looks like it doesn't belong. I wonder if it is original to the house. It does hold up the roof to the house as well as a small 2nd floor balcony. Even more curious is the small octagonal structure behind the house. It is also made of stone, is two stories tall with a tall roof, plus small octagonal windows. Where it faces the street, it was two doors - one for the ground floor but also one for the second floor right above it but missing the stairs. I'd love some insight as to the history of the place, or even your guesses what is going on.
Adcock House This home from 1890 is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Bell Buckle Historic District. Not long ago, it was also the Walker Inn Bed and Breakfast. Historic District listing: 8. Adcock House (Webb Highway): Late 19th century, Victorian residence. Two story, clapboard/frame, irregular plan, hip roof, two-story bays feature corner bracketing at eaves, veranda features turned posts, balustrade and vergeboards.
Neat house in Cumberland Gap, TN Circa 1900 with interesting woodworking.
Governor Hendricks's Headquarters - Corydon, IN Governor Hendricks's Headquarters is part of the Corydon Capitol State Historic Site on the National Register of Historic Places. Davis Floyd, a former treasurer and auditor of the Indiana Territory and a delegate to the constitutional convention in 1816, built the residence in 1817, when he was an Indiana state legislator. After Floyd lost the home during the financial Panic of 1819, the state government purchased it to house the Indiana's governor. William Hendricks occupied the building from 1822 to 1825, when he was governor of Indiana. Hendricks was Indiana's first state representative to U.S. House of Representatives in 1816 and later served in the U.S. Senate. William A. Porter, a lawyer, judge, and politician, purchased the building in 1841. Judge Porter served in the Indiana legislature was speaker of Indiana House in 1847–48.
Lewis-Clay House - Huntsville, AL The 1830 Lewis-Clay House is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Twickenham Historic District. The home was built to house teachers for a seminary next door. Later, the house was purchased by the family of Governor Clement Comer Clay.
NCStL Section House - DeRossett, TN This 1904 house is on the National Register of Historic Places as the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Section House. A section house is a residence provided by the company for employees who were building the railroad in this area. Very few of these houses remain today. It is located along US70(TN1) in the small White county town of DeRossett and is today known as the Bon Air Coal Miner Railroad Mountain Museum. It's also stop #79 of the Promised Land Trail of the Tennessee Trails and Byways program.
The Ephraim Bales Place This log cabin is located along the Roaring Fork Motor Trail at the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Here is the text of the park service marker: It would be difficult to find a better place to imagine mountain life than this. Picture yourself growing up here as one of Ephraim and Minerva Bales' nine children. Look around. This was your world. Imagine yourself and 10 others living in this small cabin. Ephraim Bales owned 72 acres here. He farmed 30; the rest remained wooded. This was like many farms along the Roaring Fork, where families scratched a hard living from a very rocky land. The Ephraim Bales house is one of more than 80 historic buildings preserved in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Each stands as a memory to those who built it. Historic buildings like this are national treasures. Once lost, they can never be regained.
Bainbridge Tavern - Springfield, KY Text of the historic marker: Built on part of Matthew Walton's land used to establish Springfield. Deeded, 1817, to John Thompson by town trustees. Bought same year by John Bainbridge, who operated a tavern there. Sold in 1830 to D.H. Spears, noted silversmith. Later owned by James Calhoun, who boasted he cast only vote for Lincoln tallied in county, 1860. Named Ky. Landmark House in 1969. Plus this note from Wikipedia: One of the more important properties on the Walnut Street Historic District is the John Thompson House/Bainbridge Tavern, which served as a tavern operated from 1817 to 1830 by John W. Bainbridge. It is a two-story three-bay log building; it may have been built as a hall/parlor plan house originally. It has a massive brick chimney and very old beaded weatherboarding.
The Corners House after 2023 Readyville Tornado damage The Corners on Stones River is a historic home in Readyville, TN, barely in Cannon County. The building was significantly damaged by a tornado on April 1, 2023. This is how the house appeared in 2009: www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/3877000849/ On this particular day, this photo was taken after sunset. The sun was barely still turning the clouds pink to the right, which caused some great lighting here.
Alfred Reagan Place The Alfred Reagan House is in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and is a stop along the Roaring Fork Motor Trail. For a full history, here is a 1969 brochure from the National Park Service about this house: npshistory.com/publications/grsm/hsr-alfred-reagan-house.pdf Excerpt: Originally a one-story hewn log structure on stone piers. At an undetermined date the walls were raised to provide two attic rooms. This extension as well as the gables are of stud construction. The lower exterior walls are covered with vertical boards and battens and the gables are covered with lap siding. The central chimney is fieldstone with mud mortar. Two first-floor rooms are connected by a passage at the rear of the house which also gave access to a former kitchen ell. Access to the attic is by an enclosed stair from the front porch in the space created by the chimney. The first-floor looms are panelled with vertical boards. The building is a good example of a "Saddlebag" house.
High House - Versailles, TN High House was the 1830s home of several generations of the Francis Jackson family including Civil War Soldier Capt. Francis Marion Jackson III. It is located on the road between Versailles and Rockvale in Southwest Rutherford County. Francis Jackson II's wife Elizabeth was a Cousin of James K. Polk's wife Sarah Childress Polk, and they were frequent visitors here.
Patten Memorial AME Zion Church - Chattanooga This old brick church was built in 1886 at the base of Lookout Mountain in the St. Elmo neighborhood of Chattanooga. The church was established by the Patten family who also operated the nearby Chattem (Chattanooga Medicine) Company nearby. After being vacant for decades, it was purchased in 2005 and restored by local artist and sculptor Cessna Decosimo to be his personal residence and studio. Learn more in this story: www.chattanoogan.com/2005/5/18/67057/Realtor-Ellen-Brooks...
Bridal House - Cottontown, TN Text of the nearby historic marker: In 1795, Thomas Cotton founded Cottontown. He had been a captain of Hertford County, North Carolina Militia during the revolution. In 1819 Moore Cotton, son of Thomas, built Bridal House for his only daughter, Elizabeth. The House is architecturally significant and recognized primarily for its construction with unusually large logs, measuring about three feet in width. National Register of Historic Places entry: npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/82004059
Weeden House Museum - Huntsville, AL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeden_House_Museum The Weeden House Museum is a historic two-story house in Huntsville, Alabama. It was built in 1819 for Henry C. Bradford, and designed in the Federal architectural style. Until 1845, it was sold and purchased by several home owners, including John McKinley, who served as a Congressman, Senator, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. From 1845 to 1956, it belonged to the Weeden family. During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, the Union Army took over the house while the Weedens moved to Tuskegee; they moved back in after the war. Portraitist and poet Maria Howard Weeden spent most of her life in the house. After it was sold by the Weeden family in 1956, the house was remodelled into residential apartments. In 1973, it was purchased by the city of Huntsville and the Twickenham Historic Preservation District Association restored it before they acquired it from the city. The private residence became a house museum in 1981.
Smith Manor - Lincoln Memorial University - Harrogate, TN Smith Manor was formerly the house for the President of Lincoln Memorial University, but today serves as his office. The house was built in 1913. The pillars were added around 1975 and taken from Norton Hall when this girls dormitory was removed.
Versace Mansion - Miami Beach, FL One of the most notable sites along Miami Beach, this was the home of famous Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and the site of his murder in 1997. Originally called Casa Casuarina. it was built in 1930 by Ronin Wolf in a Mediterranean Revival style for Alden Freeman, the heir to the Standard Oil fortune. It was later converted into a 24 unit apartment called Amsterdam Palace. Versace bought it in 1992 for his personal residence. In 1997, after he walked back from the nearby News Cafe, he was shot and killed outside the mansion's front entrance. Today, it is a botique hotel known as Villa Casa Casuarina and is included on the Miami Beach Architectural District.
RyeMabee - Monteagle, TN Here's the text of the marker in the front: The first home on this property was the residence of Dr. Oliver D. Mabee, who died in 1896. After the 1925 death of Oliver's daughter-in-law Marie, and a subsequent and protracted legal dispute with her siblings, Mrs. Irene Mabee Dickinson of Chicago, the daughter of Oliver's son Charles, gained legal control of the property for a payment of $6,000. Shortly after, Mrs. Dickinson demolished the original Mabee home and started construction on the preset two story, ten room fieldstone Tudor Revival cottage she first called "Castlewood" and later "RyMabee." The Cottage is an exemplary representation of the early twentieth century Tudor Revival or English Cottage Revival Style. Roads first crossed over this, the narrowest portion of the Cumberland Plateau, in the 1840s. The Mabee home is located on what was the earliest east-west post road, and later, the first turnpike between Nashville and Chattanooga. Interviews with persons living in Monteagle in the late 1920s indicate that Al Capone frequented the original 1875 Mabee home. Capone, it is said, came through Monteagle on a regular basis when he was traveling between Chicago and his Florida estate in Miami. There are reportedly pictures from the late 1920s showing Capone in his car, being towed up Highway 41 from Pelham after it had mechanical problems. In the 1950s, the home became a restaurant, operated by Clara and Tom Shoemate. During that time, RyMabee was renamed "Claramont." In the early 1960s, after Clara Shoemate opened an event facility overlooking Lost Cove in Sewanee, the building reverted to a private residence before re-opening in the late 1990s as "High Point", once again a restaurant in an elegant and historic setting. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Their website also adds this note: The mansion was built in 1929 and still contains the original hardwood flooring and authentic light fixtures, presumably financed by Al Capone. In the twenties and early thirties, the three-story compound had escape hatches on the roof and underground tunnels in the basement. Capone used it for the transferring of liquor. It is widely believed that Capone and John Dillinger lounged outside on the mountain stone patio of the building while having drinks and playing numerous hands of cards.
Alvin Montjoy House - Falmouth, KY The Alvin Mountjoy Log Cabin is the oldest house still remaining in Falmouth. The cabin was built around 1795 by Alvin Mountjoy, one of Falmouth’s first settlers and Lieutenant for the American Revolution. It is believed that in this cabin, the peace officers, magistrates and commissioners met by appointment on July 4, 1799 to draw up the city charter. It is listed on the national Register of Historic Places as part of the Central Falmouth Historic District More info here on page 64: npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/a69e079c-23d2-43f0-8696-4391b2...
Torian Log Cabin - Grapevine, TX located in the middle of Grapevine, TX. Here is the text of the marker: This cabin of hand-hewn logs was built along a creek at the edge of the Cross Timbers near the pioneer community of Dove. It originally stood on a headright settled in 1845 by Francis Throop, a Peters colonist from Missouri. J.C.Wiley bought the property in 1868. He sold it in 1886 to John R. Torian (1836-1909), a farmer from Kentucky. Torian family members occupied the structure until the 1940s. The cabin was moved about four miles to this site in 1976. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1978
Fort Wood Historic District - Chattanooga This is property #87 on the Fort Wood Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. The listing includes these notes: Built 1922. rectangular, 2 stories, brick, tile hipped roof, 2 story central portico with fluted Ionic columns, multi-lighted transom with keystone and sidelights at door, second floor has a modified Palladian opening and a balcony, exposed rafters.
Mansion House/John Simpson Hotel - Jonesborough, TN From the town's walking tour brochure: Built in 1843 by Jonesbrough’s first official postmaster, John W. Simpson, this building was one of Jonesborough’s earliest hotels. It served stage coach travel through the Great Stage Road, running from Philadelphia into the southeast. In 1851, the building was known as the John Simpson Hotel, but by 1853 it became the Mansion House. The second story porch was added to the home in the 1880s, at the same time and probably by the same craftsman who added the porch to the Chester Inn. The Mansion House ceased operations as a hotel prior to 1862, when the building and the adjoining back lot was sold to Dr. Mahoney. The back lot held original slave quarters and a large stable, which is now the home at 103 First Avenue. Hello to anyone who found this photo here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/oldest-town-in-tn/ The Oldest Town In Tennessee That Everyone Should Visit At Least Once or here: www.onlyinyourstate.com/tennessee/incredible-tn-trips/ 11 Incredible Trips In Tennessee That Will Change Your Life
Clay House (1858) - Madison, AL Located on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Madison Station Historic District. Here are the notes from the listing: Originally built in 1858 as a simple two-story, side-gabled house with side hall and stairs, this house was altered before 1900 when a two-story four room addition was added on the west (right) side. A balcony was also constructed on the back porch at this time; it was later enclosed as an upstairs bathroom. In 1913, a second addition enlarged the first floor on the rear of the house and a side porch was added on the east side. In 1936, indoor plumbing and a full kitchen were added. The wood weatherboard house features one over one sash, true divided light windows and a one-story, partial front porch. The porch roof is supported with brick piers and tapered columns and covered with a dropped secondary roof with gabled pediment over the front door. The main entrance includes a single pane transom over a paneled wood door with partial glazing of six fixed panes. There is an interior chimney on the east gable end of the house and a second slope chimney on the rear of the western end. The first known occupant of the house was Sarah Clay, widow of Andrew Clay who was killed in the Civil War. She purchased the house in 1866.
John Neely Bryan Replica Cabin - Dallas, TX This is somewhat a replica of the first building in Dallas. I suppose they thought people were more likely to see it if they called it a replica of the home of the first Dallas resident. (Bryan's home was destroyed.) Instead, it's just a few years older than the Bryan cabin, and not a modern remake. It's located downtown at Founder's Plaza along Elm St. Text of the marker: Most colonists first settled in this "Three Forks" area of the Trinity River as members of the Peters Colony after 1841. Immigrants from such states as Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee brought with them a tradition of building log shelters. Land title was granted to settlers who worked at least 15 acres and built "a good and comfortable cabin upon it." This region was abundant in oak, juniper (popularly called cedar), walnut, ash, bois d'arc, and elm trees, which furnished sturdy building timbers. John Neely Bryan, a colonist from Tennessee, arrived near this site in late 1841 and built a log cabin in 1842. The area's first school and church was built of logs at Farmer's Branch (12 mi. NW) in 1845. J. W. Smith and J. M. Patterson brought goods from Shreveport (184 mi. E) in 1846 for resale at their log store in Dallas. Milled lumber appeared in Dallas buildings by 1849, and bricks were available by 1860. That year a fire destroyed most of the town's original log cabins. The nearby cabin was built of cedar logs before 1850, possibly by Kentuckian Gideon Pemberton. It was moved from its original site (7.5 mi. E) in 1926 and rebuilt at several locations, including Bryan's designated courthouse site (1 blk. SW) in 1936, and this block in 1971.
Rose Terrace House - Oliver Springs, TN This hose in Oliver Springs, TN received a historic Marker in 2021 Text of the marker: Rose Terrace was built in the mid-1880s by coal operator James K. Butler and was sold in 1921 to Chris Ladd and wife Matilda. The Ladd's daughter Dora married Howard H. Baker, Sr., in a ceremony held at Rose Terrace. Howard Sr. embarked on a storied career in politics as a candidate for governor of Tennessee and then as an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate. He was elected as a U.S. Representative in 1950 and served until his death in 1964. His refusal to join the resistance to the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education helped pave the way for the desegregation of schools. The firstborn of Howard and Dora was Howard H. Baker, Jr., who became a U.S. Senator from Tennessee and later served as Chief of Staff for President Ronald Reagan and as the United States Ambassador to Japan.
White Plains - Algood, TN en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Plains_(Cookeville,_Tennessee) White Plains is an antebellum plantation house located in Algood, Tennessee near the U.S. city of Cookeville. In the 19th century, the plantation provided a key stopover along the Walton Road, an early stagecoach road connecting Knoxville and Nashville, and in 1854 served as a temporary county seat for the newly formed Putnam County. In 2009, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The White Plains plantation was established in 1809 by William Quarles (1752–1814), a Revolutionary War veteran who had migrated to the area from Virginia. Quarles' grandson, Stephan Decatur Burton (1813–1892), built the White Plains house sometime around 1848, and in the late 1950s Harvey Draper bought the house and made numerous renovations. Location: White Plains is located on the eastern Highland Rim, a plateau-like upland between the higher Cumberland Plateau to the east and the lower Nashville Basin to the west. The western escarpments of the Cumberland Plateau, known locally as "Algood Mountain" and "Buck Mountain," rise about a mile to the east. The house stands along Old Walton Road just outside the municipal boundary of Algood. History: What is now White Plains was part of Cherokee lands ceded to the United States with the signing of the Third Treaty of Tellico in 1805. The Walton Road, a stagecoach road completed in 1801 connecting Knoxville and Nashville, brought the earliest permanent legal settlers to the Upper Cumberland region. Around 1804, an early pioneer named Daniel Alexander established an inn along the Walton Road at what is now White Plains. In 1808, Alexander sold the inn and land to William Quarles, a lawyer and Revolutionary War veteran from Bedford County, Virginia. Quarles moved his family, belongings, and thirty slaves to the new land in December 1809. According to family tradition, Quarles named the land "White Plains," as the waves of prairie grass appeared white in the winter sunlight as Quarles looked out over the land from the edge of the Cumberland Plateau. Shortly after his arrival, Quarles built a two-story log house with a detached kitchen and office, and several slave cabins. Within a few years, Quarles had established a general store, blacksmith shop, and post office at White Plains. The Kentucky Stock Road, a cattle drovers' path connecting Huntsville, Alabama and Danville, Kentucky, was developed in subsequent years and intersected the Walton Road at White Plains. The Quarles' inn was a popular stopover for travelers along these two roads, and three U.S. presidents— Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson— are known to have lodged at White Plains. Quarles's youngest son, John Adams Quarles (1802–1876), may have inspired author Mark Twain's story, "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (John Quarles was married to Twain's aunt, Martha Lampton). Quarles's daughter, Sallie, was married to U.S. Congressman Adam Huntsman, famous in Tennessee history for defeating Davy Crockett in the 1834 election and prompting Crockett's angry departure to Texas. On April 2, 1814, William P. Quarles was murdered by a man named William Phillips. His wife, Ann Hawes Quarles, continued to manage White Plains until her death in 1844, when the land passed to Stephen Decatur Burton (1813–1892), a grandson of William and Ann. Burton built the present house at White Plains in 1848, and built a two-story schoolhouse for the small community's children. Largely through inheritance, Burton was one of the Upper Cumberland's largest slaveholders, owning around 100 slaves at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. During the war, Burton lost the bulk of his fortune when Union forces burned several warehouses in Chattanooga, where Burton had amassed $125,000 worth of cotton. In the latter half of the 19th century, the community around White Plains disintegrated, although the house and farm remained in the hands of the Quarles-Burton family. The family eventually sold the house to Harvey Draper, who remodeled the house in the late 1950s. In 2018, the City of Algood purchased White Plains with plans to turn it into a museum. House: The house at White Plains was originally constructed in 1848 by Stephen Decatur Burton after the loghouse built by his grandfather William Quarles burned. The house originally consisted of a hewn log frame with weatherboard siding, built around a central floor plan. Two 15-foot (4.6 m) by 15-foot (4.6 m) rooms flank both sides of the central hallway on the first floor, and the second floor consists of four 15-foot (4.6 m) by 15-foot (4.6 m). A sitting room was added to the rear of the house in 1925. The 1958 renovations included the addition of a brick exterior, a front portico, and two single-story wings containing a kitchen and several bedrooms. The interior of the house originally consisted of poplar floors, although the poplar floor on the first story was covered with hardwood in 1958. The original rooms all had a fireplace, each with a unique mantel. A "dog-leg" staircase accesses the second story. The first-story hallway has built-in gun cabinets and a 19th-century pier mirror (the latter added in 1958).
Miles Gilbert House - Cairo, IL Cairo, IL is a fascinating city. A century ago, it was a thriving city at the southern end of Illinois where rivers meet. However, a large percentage of the population leaves every decade and eventually Cairo will be a ghost town. The town has fascinating and intricate architecture, but the few remaining citizens can't save everything. A few places are actively preserved, but many places are crumbling or have been torn down. This home was built ca. 1872-75 and listed on the Cairo Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. Here is the text from the nominating form: Miles F. Gilbert was but one prominent lawyer in an entire family of prominent lawyers. He was a member of the firm of Green & Gilbert after 1870 and was in 1892 admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. His brother William B. Gilbert was one of the founders of the firm and was in charge of the legal business of the Illinois Central, New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago, and Cairo & St. Louis railroads, the Cairo City Property Co. and other major corporations. Their father Miles A. Gilbert was one of the men entering the site of Cairo for purchase in 1835 and was the agent for the Cairo City and Canal Co. dispatched to the city in 1843 to preserve and/or restore order after the 1842 flood and collapse. In that capacity, he took a leading role in the early development of the city. All of these Gilberts seem to have resided in this house at one time or another.
Wall Manor - Mound City, IL wallmanor.com/historic-wall-manor/ Designed by Architect S. B. Prindle Incorporating classical revival, Victorian and Romanesque elements Built for Judge Warner A. Wall Completed 1913 The area is generally flat, but since there was a mound here, it is speculated to be on top of a Native American mound.
Brown's Ferry Tavern - Chattanooga, TN Brown's Ferry Tavern was one of the earliest Chattanooga sites added to the National Register of Historic Places. Here is the form: npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/71000822 Looking very impressive as it stands atop a knoll on Brown's Ferry Road, the Brown's Ferry Tavern commands a dramatic view of the surrounding Lookout Valley. John Brown, a half-Indian, had the tavern built in 1803 by Caspar Vaught from Blount County in East Tennessee. Vaught was a carpenter who came to do some work near this location for William Lewis Lovely, sub-agent under Colonel R. J. Meigs for the Cherokee Indians. The two-story log structure originally had two large rooms downstairs, separated by a dog-trot, and three rooms upstairs. A boxed-in winding stairway leads from the south end room to the second floor. The original pine floors still remain in all except one room. The exposed beams in the ceilings of all the rooms help to demonstrate the sturdy construction of the tavern. At each end of the tavern is a huge stone chimney, over eight feet in width. A fireplace in each room with a simple pine mantel provided the heat. A porch extends across almost the entire front of the tavern. Sometime following the Civil War an addition was built across the rear of the building to be used as a kitchen and back porch. Subsequent owners rearranged the addition, converting it into a bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen. In recent years the open dog-trot has been enclosed and is presently being used as a dining room. One of the oldest buildings in Hamilton County, Brown's Ferry Tavern has played an Important role in more than one phase of the county's history. It was built at a time when there was still much Indian activity in the area, and was built for a half-Indian. John Brown was a man of considerable ability, but is said to have been an eccentric character. He led a company in the Cherokee Wars with the Creek Nation, and thus was known as Captain John Brown. In his later years he was a trader, including trading in slaves, a ferry operator, tavern owner, and river pilot. His brother, William Brown, was supreme court judge of the Cherokee Nation and John Ross was his brother-in-law. Brown had his tavern built on a hill in a wooded area, fronting on an Indian trail linking the Creek Nation with tribes to the north. The trail ran essentially from Pensacola to Detroit. As the white man moved into this country, it. was designated a Post Road in 1820, and this segment of the Post Road ran from Kingston, Tennessee, into Alabama. Brown lived in this house and operated it as a tavern until about 1819 when he moved north of the Tennessee River where he lived for approximately ten years. During this time the tavern was operated by a relative, William Doherty, and it became one of the principal stopping places for travelers on the Old Post Road. About 1830 Brown moved back to the tavern and lived until the removal of the Indians in 1838. After a year or so in the Oklahoma Territory he was very dissatisfied and obtained permission to return to his house where he died in 1843, and was buried in a cedar grove back of the house. In addition to being a very important stopping place for travelers, Brown's Ferry Tavern played a prominent role in the Civil War in the area. Brown operated a ferry on the Tennessee River about a mile from his tavern, and the ferry was a strategic point on the river. In 1862 the Union forces captured Brown's Ferry, and General Joseph Hooker set up headquarters in Lookout Valley near Brown's tavern. The tavern was used as a commissary for Federal soldiers. It had earlier been occupied by Confederate troops. The road on which it is located was a major supply route for the Federal troops besieged in Chattanooga. Thus, Brown's Ferry Tavern has played an important role in the history of the area, and has seen it develop from a small wilderness outpost in Indian country to a thriving city.
Feuchter House - Cairo, IL Cairo, IL is a fascinating city. A century ago, it was a thriving city at the southern end of Illinois where rivers meet. However, a large percentage of the population leaves every decade and eventually Cairo will be a ghost town. The town has fascinating and intricate architecture, but the few remaining citizens can't save everything. A few places are actively preserved, but many places are crumbling or have been torn down. The Charles Feuchter, JR. House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Cairo Historic District, but is specifically mentioned for Historical and Architectural significance. The house was built ca. 1908-11 for the prominent businessman.
Neat house in Mound City, IL I have no details on the house other than I thought it is pretty and it's well maintained in an area of the country where other former nice homes are falling apart.
Maryland Manor - Brentwood, TN Today, the Maryland Farms area of Brentwood is a large business district, but at one time the whole area was a farm. Maryland Manor was the farmhouse. For about 40 years, the Manor has been home to Mere Bulles restaurant. Here is the description from the City of Brentwood website: maps.brentwoodtn.gov/portal/apps/experiencebuilder/experi... J. Truman Ward, owner of WLAC radio station in Nashville, purchased 100 acres of land along Old Hickory Boulevard in 1937. He later purchased an additional 300 acres and Maryland Farms became a showplace for Tennessee Walking Horses, American saddle horses and over 50 brood mares. Once the 20-stall stable for some of the nation's top American saddle horses and Tennessee walking horses, the remodeled barn is today the centerpiece of Brentwood's tree-lined business complex, Maryland Farms. Maryland Farms had its beginning in 1937 when J. Truman Ward, then owner of WLAC Radio Station in Nashville, bought 100 acres of "stump land" on Old Hickory Boulevard in Brentwood. He later added other lands until he had amassed a 400-acre spread, which he named Maryland Farms for his wife Mary. In 1941-2, they built a family home, calling it Maryland Manor. The two-story colonial style home contained more than 7,500 square feet of living space. Ward's love for horses manifested itself in this showplace for fine horses. He began by building a twenty-stall stable measuring 44 by 155 feet with an interior of wormy chestnut and knotty pine ceilings. Twenty by 20 feet stalls were finished in oak. Both American saddle horses and Tennessee walking horses were stabled there for training. Other barns and pastures were enclosed within five miles of white plank fences. In its heyday it was home for 50 brood mares. Movie stars and country music legends, including Gene Autry and Barbara Stanwyck, bought their horses from Ward and his trainers. In 1941, the Wards bought American Ace, an outstanding stallion show horse who became a prized sire. After the death of American Ace in 1953, the Ward family replaced their horse operation with a cattle farm. In 1958, Edward Potter, founder and president of Commerce Union Bank, leased Maryland Farms and returned horses to the sprawling property. A year later, horse aficionados launched the Brentwood Derby on the farm, an annual horse race that was the Brentwood Chamber of Commerce’s sole fundraiser for local charities until the tradition ceased in 1971.
Lilli House - Franklin, TN This neat house in Franklin is located in the Hincheyville historic district on the National Register of Historic Places, but also goes all out for Halloween decorations. The home was built by Joshua Bates Lillie, the founder of Lillie Mills. Here are the details on the National Register of Historic Places form: ca. 1886, Queen Anne influenced, weatherboard, irregular shape, one story, hip and gable roof, circular porch wraps around circular corner turret with conical roof, central single-leaf door with rectangular transom, 1/1 light rectangular windows, decorative bargeboard and gable fish scale ornamentation.
Jasmine Grove - Franklin, TN Text of the Historic Marker: Built as a two-story frame house in 1850 by William Many, Jasmine Grove was occupied by Union forces during the construction of Fort Granger during the Civil War. In 1916, Jasmine Grove was owned by Charles Sidway who hired Chicago architect Marshall Field to redesign the residence, adding the two-story elliptical portico. In 1930, a group of local residents purchased Jasmine Grove and converted it into a golf and country club. In 1935, W.W. Harlin acquired Jasmine Grove and restored it as a residence. Under W.W. Harlin's guiding hand, Jasmine Grove became a well-known showplace. For years it was the Harlin family residence and placed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1988. From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maney-Sidway_House The Maney-Sidway House, also known as Jasmine Grove and as Myles Manor, is a building in Franklin, TN originally built c.1836, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The building served as a hospital for Union wounded following the Battle of Franklin. It was extensively remodeled in 1916 in Neo-Classical style, including adding an elliptical, two-story portico to the main façade of the building. For the 1916 renovations of the property, it is included in a survey of historic resources of Williamson County as one of only a few notable residential structures in the county that were built during 1900–1935. Henry H. Mayberry House was another, as was a remodeling of the Randal McGavock House, both reflecting Neo-Classical style. The National Register listing includes 11.9 acres (4.8 ha) with two contributing buildings, one contributing structure, and two non-contributing structures
Coldwater Stagecoach Stop - Tuscumbia, AL This log cabin was one of several built around 1815 by Michael Dickson and today operates as a small museum.
Woodland Home - Columbia, TN Today, Woodland Park in Columbia, TN is land from the Woodland Farm occupied in 1841 by Winfield Scott Rainey and his family. This farm stayed in the family for over 130 years when the land was sold to the city to become a park. The Woodland home was built in 1900 by Horace Rainey at a cost of $10,000. The bricks in the walls were made on the farm.
Hincheyville House - Franklin, TN This is one of several houses on the National Register of Historic Places in the Hincheyville Historic District in Franklin, TN. Here is the nominating form writeup. #6) 1831, brick, Y-shaped, one story, gable roof, central single-leaf door with round arched transom and wide sidelights between two floor length six-light windows with round arched transoms,three-sided central porch with decorative posts and trim, plain frieze with brackets, molded surround heads over 4/4 light round arched windows of gable end elevations, circular vents, brick foundation.
George B. Hunter Farmhouse - Leiper's Fork, TN This farm house is part of the Land Trust for Tennessee Benton/Preston Farm located along Leipers Creek Rd. south of Leiper's Fork. According to the historic marker out front (which was gone in 2024) This farm was part of the 2,560 acre Benton plantation, which was sold in 1821 to Samuel Cummins. During the 19th century the farm passed from Cummins to Swanson Johnson to James Swanson to Dr. George Bennett and, in 1865, to Dr. George B. Hunter. In 1902, Dr. Hunter built the present house in the Queen Anne style, using Sears and Roebuck hardware, woodwork and mantels. J. T. Morton purchased the 500-acre farm in 1907 for $13,50O. Later occupants included the Albert and Barney Beasley families and Kenneth and Lucille Blackburn, who operated a modern dairy for nearly thirty years. In 1999 the Preston family granted a conservation easement to the Land Trust of Tennessee, which will protect the historic view shed for future generations.
