Craighead House (Nashville, Tennessee)

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Craighead House
Location3710 Westbrook Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee
Built1812
Part ofRichland-West End Historic District (ID79002425[1])
Designated CPApril 16, 1979

Craighead House, at 3710 Westbrook Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, is a Federal style house built in circa 1810, perhaps 1812. It is one of the oldest brick houses in Nashville. The house's gardens were a featured garden of the Garden Club of Nashville.[2][3]

It was built by John Brown Craighead and was the "manor house" of his 194-acre (79 ha) plantation. John Brown Craighead's wife, Jane Erwin Dickinson, was the widow of a man killed by duel with future president Andrew Jackson in 1806. John Craighead was son of Presbyterian minister Thomas B. Craighead.[3]

The plantation remained in the Craighead family until the end of the American Civil War.[3] The property was subdivided in 1905 or soon thereafter by the Richland Realty Company and became a "trolley car neighborhood".[2] The neighborhood eventually became historic, itself, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Richland-West End Historic District.[3]

The house is listed on the and is zoned within a historic overlay for the Richland and West End neighborhoods of Nashville. The house received an Architectural Award in 1999 from Metropolitan Nashville's Historical Commission,[2] and in 2014 the gardens (one acre remaining from the original 194-acre estate) were added to the Archives of American Gardens.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "The Craighead House and Gardens Are Accepted into the Archives of American Gardens at the Smithsonian". Garden Club of Nashville. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
  3. ^ a b c d David H. Paine and Ann V. Reynolds (February 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Richland-West End Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved February 13, 2016. with more than 200 photos from 1979
  4. ^ "Smithsonian Gardens | Archives of American Gardens Recent Acquisitions 2014". gardens.si.edu.


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