James Johnston House | |
 James Johnston House front and side view, August 2014. | |
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| Location | S of Brentwood on U.S. 31, Brentwood, Tennessee |
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| Coordinates | 35°59′47″N86°48′34″W / 35.99639°N 86.80944°W Coordinates: 35°59′47″N86°48′34″W / 35.99639°N 86.80944°W |
| Area | 6 acres (2.4 ha) |
| Built | c.1840 and 1864 |
| Built by | James Johnston |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival and Georgian |
| NRHP reference # | 76001807 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 26, 1976 |
The James Johnston House is a property in Brentwood, Tennessee that dates from c.1840 and that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It has also been known as Isola Bella. [1]
Brentwood is a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, located in Williamson County. The population was 37,060 as of the 2010 U.S. Census, and estimated at 40,982 in 2014.
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.
It includes Greek Revival and Georgian architecture. [1]
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture. The term was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in a lecture he gave as Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1842.
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I, George II, George III, and George IV—who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830. The style was revived in the late 19th century in the United States as Colonial Revival architecture and in the early 20th century in Great Britain as Neo-Georgian architecture; in both it is also called Georgian Revival architecture. In the United States the term "Georgian" is generally used to describe all buildings from the period, regardless of style; in Britain it is generally restricted to buildings that are "architectural in intention", and have stylistic characteristics that are typical of the period, though that covers a wide range.
When listed, the property included three contributing buildings on an area of 6 acres (2.4 ha). [1]
According to a 1988 study of historic resources in Williamson County, the house was one of about thirty surviving "significant brick and frame residences" that had been "the center of large plantations and they display some of the finest construction of the ante-bellum era." [2] :21 It is among houses in the county having "two-story porticos with large square two-story columns with Doric motif capitals." [2] :42
