Cleveland Hall (Nashville, Tennessee)

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Cleveland Hall
Historic American Buildings Survey, Lester Jones, Photographer August 21, 1940 VIEW FROM SOUTHEAST. - Cleveland Hall, Hermitage, Davidson County, TN HABS TENN,19-NASH.V,5-1.tif
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Location4041 Old Hickory Blvd., Old Hickory, Tennessee
Coordinates 36°13′46″N86°37′35″W / 36.22944°N 86.62639°W / 36.22944; -86.62639
Built1839
Architect Joseph Reiff
William C. Hume
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No. 71000821 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 16, 1971

Cleveland Hall is an Antebellum mansion in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Location

It is located at 4041 Old Hickory Boulevard in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

History

It was designed by master builders Joseph Reiff and William C. Hume, who built The Hermitage in 1835, constructed under the supervision of owner, Stockly Donelson, and completed in 1839. [2] Its main massing resembles the plantation plain style Plantation Plain-style, but the pediment and columns on the entrance, which could have been added at a later time are markers of the Greek Revival style. [8] It has eighteen rooms. [7]

It was the home of Stockly Donelson (1805-1888), who was Rachel Jackson's nephew and whose grandfather was John Donelson (1718–1785), and his wife Phila Ann Lawrence Donelson. [2] [7] After his death, their son William Stockly Donelson (1835-1895) lived in the house with his wife, Alice Ewin Donelson (1836-1881). [2] Subsequently, it was home to their son, John Donelson (1874-1952) and his wife, Bettie Menees Hooper Donelson (1875-1963). It is still privately owned by the Donelson family. [2] [7]

Heritage significance

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 16, 1971. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 James A. Hoobler, A Guide to Historic Nashville, Tennessee, The History Press, 2008, p. 28 [ permanent dead link ]
  3. Joseph Frazer Smith, Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South, Courier Dover Publications, 1941, p. 243
  4. Eleanor Graham, Nashville: a short history and selected buildings, Historical Commission of Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County, 1974, p. 278
  5. Nancy Capace, Encyclopedia of Tennessee, North American Book Dist, 2000, p. 208
  6. Mary Brown, Daniel Moore, Roberta Seawell, History of Homes and Gardens of Tennessee, Garden Study Club of Nashville, 1964, p. 157
  7. 1 2 3 4 History of Cleveland Hall, Rayon Yarns , April 1946
  8. Roger G. Kennedy, John M. Hall, Greek Revival America, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989, p. 207