West Meade

West Meade
Location Old Harding Pike, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Coordinates 36°5′51.4″N 86°52′38.6″W / 36.097611°N 86.877389°W / 36.097611; -86.877389Coordinates: 36°5′51.4″N 86°52′38.6″W / 36.097611°N 86.877389°W / 36.097611; -86.877389
Area 8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built 1886
Architectural style Victorian
NRHP Reference # 75001750[1]
Added to NRHP March 4, 1975

West Meade is a historic mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.[2][3][4][5]

Location

The mansion is located on Old Harding Pike in Nashville, Tennessee.

History

The mansion was built in 1886.[3][4][5] It was the home of Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832–1895) and Mary Elizabeth Harding, daughter of William Giles Harding (1808–1886), owner of the Belle Meade Plantation, who had given them this tract of land.[4][5][6][7] It is a red brick mansion with a French Victorian-style porch.[4] It spanned 2,600 acres.[5]

The mansion, named because it was the western portion of the Belle Meade Plantation,[8] gave its name to the residential neighborhood called West Meade.[3] To this day, it is privately owned.[4]

Architectural significance

The three story house is made of red, hand-polished brick. There are 20 rooms on the first two floors, the third contains a ballroom and includes a widow's walk. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 4, 1975 as an example of the elaborate Victorian mansions built in Nashville in the 1800s.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ E. D. Thompson, Nashville Nostalgia, Westview Publishing Co., 2003, p. 33
  3. 1 2 3 West Meade Neighborhood
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Nashville Public Library Digital Collection
  5. 1 2 3 4 Battle of Nashville Preservation Society
  6. ↑ Alfred Sidney Johnson, Clarence A. Bickford, William W. Hudson, Nathan Haskell Dole, The Cyclopedic Review of Current History, Evening News Association, 1896, Volume 5, p. 767
  7. ↑ Harvey G. Hudspeth, Howell Edmunds Jackson , The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, December 25, 2009
  8. 1 2 Connie Wilkins (February 5, 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: West Meade" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved October 23, 2015. Photos
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