Mooreland (Brentwood, Tennessee)

Mooreland
Mooreland, August 2014.
Location Off U.S. 31, Brentwood, Tennessee
Coordinates 36°1′46″N 86°47′18″W / 36.02944°N 86.78833°W / 36.02944; -86.78833Coordinates: 36°1′46″N 86°47′18″W / 36.02944°N 86.78833°W / 36.02944; -86.78833
Area 9.5 acres (3.8 ha)
Built c.1838
Architect Moore,Robert Irvin
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 75001797 [1]
Added to NRHP July 24, 1975

Mooreland is a property in Brentwood, Tennessee that was built c.1838 and that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

It was built by Robert Irvin Moore and includes Greek Revival architecture.[1]

It is one of about thirty "significant brick and frame residences" surviving in Williamson County that "were the center of large plantations " and display "some of the finest construction of the ante-bellum era." It faces on the Franklin and Columbia Pike that ran south from Brentwood to Franklin to Columbia.[2]

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Template:National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee

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