Airdrie | |
Location | 3210 Avenal Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
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Coordinates | 36°06′11″N86°43′54″W / 36.1031°N 86.7318°W Coordinates: 36°06′11″N86°43′54″W / 36.1031°N 86.7318°W |
Area | 2.8 acres (1.1 ha) |
Built | c.1797-c. 1805; c. 1910 |
Architect | George Norton |
Architectural style | Neoclassical |
NRHP reference No. | 05001027 [1] |
Added to NRHP | September 15, 2005 |
Airdrie, a.k.a. Petway House or the Buell-King House, is a historic house and former plantation in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Built as a log house from 1797 to 1808, it was a Southern plantation with African slaves in the Antebellum era. After the American Civil War, it belonged to Union veterans.
It is located at 3210 Avenal Avenue in South-East Nashville, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. [2] [3] [4]
The land belonged to John Foreman until it was acquired by William Coldwell in 1797. [4] The construction of the two-story log house began in 1797, and it was completed c. 1808. [3] [4] It included an adjacent log cabin and a horse barn. [4]
In 1808, Coldwell sold the house to Congressman William Dickson, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1801 to 1807. [4] In 1817, it was purchased by Congressman Thomas Claiborne, who served in the House of Representatives from 1817 to 1819. [3] However, Claiborne sold the house in 1818 to Justice Gilbert Gray Washington, who served in the Tennessee Supreme Court. [3]
In 1825, the house was purchased by Hinchey Petway (1776-1856), a merchant active in Franklin, Tennessee who remained the owner throughout the 1830s and 1840s. [3] Today, the Hincheyville Historic District in Franklin is named for Petway. [3] Petway added more land, coming up to 431 acres, and he owned African slaves, who worked on what was by then a Southern plantation. [3] He lived there with his wife, Susanna Caroline Parrish Petway, and their seven children. [3] When Petway died in 1856, the house was willed to his widow and their children. [3] It remained in the Petway family during the Civil War. [3]
In 1866-1867, the house was purchased by Judge John S. Brien. [4] [5] When he died in 1867, the house was inherited by his widow, Rochie Howard Brien (1840-1930), who lived there until her death. [3] She shared the house with her daughter Rochie, her son-in-law, Union Colonel George P. Buell, who was General Buell's cousin and became the owner of the house, and her grandson, Don Carlos Buell II. [4] Buell hired architect George Norton to redesign the house in the Neoclassical architectural style circa 1910. [3] [4] Norton added poplar weatherboard, a front porch, and a grand staircase inside the house. [3] Meanwhile, Don Carlos Buell II married Ruth Norton, the architect's sister, and they lived in the house until the 1950s.
In 1953, Ward Allen, a Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, purchased the house from Ruth Norton Buell. [3] He welcomed meetings of St Matthias Episcopal Church and lived here with his wife Peggy until 1958, [3] when they sold the house to Charles Toney and his wife Josephine. [3] In 1963, the house was purchased by R. Harold King and his wife, Dorothy. [3] The Kings renovated the house. [3]
It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since September 15, 2005. [2]
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