Craighead House (Nashville, Tennessee)

Craighead House
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
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Location	3710 Westbrook Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee
Coordinates	36°08′20″N86°49′52″W / 36.1389°N 86.8310°W / 36.1389; -86.8310
Built	1812
Part of	Richland-West End Historic District (ID79002425 [1] )
Designated CP	April 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 Tennessee Register of Historic Places 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. "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 February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
3. 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. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2019.