Maple Dean Farm

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Maple Dean Farm
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Nearest city Shelbyville, Tennessee
Coordinates 35°22′30″N86°25′48″W / 35.37500°N 86.43000°W / 35.37500; -86.43000 Coordinates: 35°22′30″N86°25′48″W / 35.37500°N 86.43000°W / 35.37500; -86.43000
Area209 acres (85 ha)
Built1886 (1886)
Architectural styleStick/eastlake, Gable-Front and Wing
MPS Historic Family Farms in Middle Tennessee MPS
NRHP reference No. 95000269 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 30, 1995

The Maple Dean Farm is a historic farmhouse in Shelbyville, Tennessee, U.S.. Built in 1886 on a farm established in 1819, it was designed in the Eastlake architectural style. It became a century farm in 1976, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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History

Thomas Dean, a farmer from South Carolina, moved to Bedford County and established the farm in 1819. [2] He lived here with his wife, Cassandra Brewton, and their son, Peyton S. Dean. [2] Professionally, Dean became a local Democratic politician, serving in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1835 to 1839 and 1851 to 1853 as well as in the Tennessee Senate from 1847 to 1849 and 1855 to 1857. [2] He was also a slaveholder. [2] At the outset of the American Civil War, "he owned over a hundred [slaves]". [2]

Thomas Dean died in 1881, and the farm was inherited by his son Peyton. [2] Peyton, his wife and daughter Elizabeth lived in a great mansion on the farm designed in the Greek Revival architectural style. [2] The house was later demolished. [2] In 1885, Peyton's daughter acquired the farm, where she lived with her husband, Thomas Crigler, a schoolteacher. [2] A year later, they hired Jere Baxter to build a new farmhouse. [2] They hired painter Fred Swanton to do the wallpapers inside the house. [2] Swanton started his career as a circus painter and subsequently painted many wallpapers in Middle Tennessee; he specialized in painting naturalistic scenes of landscapes. [3]

The farmhouse was inherited by the Criglers's son, John Peyton Crigler, in 1911. [2] Crigler built more outbuildings on the farm and continued to raise cattle. [2] In 1958, Jacob Crigler acquired the house, and he turned the property into a tobacco farm. [2] In 1976, it was "certified as a Tennessee Century Farm by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture." [2] The farm still belonged to the Dean/Crigler family by the 1990s. [2]

Architectural significance

The farmhouse was designed in the Eastlake architectural style. [2] has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 30, 1995. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Maple Dean Farm". National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ Van West, Carroll (Spring 1994). "Middle Tennessee Houses and the Plain Painter Tradition: The Work of Fred Swanton in the Late Victorian Era". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 53 (1): 56–63. JSTOR   42628358.
  4. ↑ "Maple Dean Farm". National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved October 10, 2017.


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