Rhodes House (Brighton, Tennessee)

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Rhodes House
Nearest city Brighton, Tennessee
Area 21 acres (8.5 ha)
Built 1860
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference # 80003875 [1]
Added to NRHP April 30, 1980

The Rhodes House is a historic house in Brighton, Tennessee, U.S.. It was built in 1860 for Soloman A. Rhodes, a planter who inherited the land from his parents. [2] Rhodes was married twice, and he had ten children. [2] He owned 18 slaves in 1860. [2]

Brighton, Tennessee Town in Tennessee, United States

Brighton is a town in Tipton County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,735 at the 2010 census.

It was the main house of a large plantation. A servants house is another contributing building on the property; there are also non-contributing dependencies. [2]

Plantation long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale

A plantation is the large-scale estate meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, rubber trees, and fruits. Protectionist policies and natural comparative advantage have sometimes contributed to determining where plantations were located.

The house is two stories, with a one-story ell, and is basically Greek Revival in style. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 30, 1980. [1]

Ell (architecture)

In architecture, an ell is a wing of a building that lies perpendicular to the length of the main portion.

Greek Revival architecture architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries

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.

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tipton County, Tennessee.

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