Craighead House (Nashville, Tennessee)

Craighead House
Location 3710 Westbrook Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee
Built 1812
Part of Richland-West End Historic District (#79002425[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]

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Craighead House and Gardens Are Accepted into the Archives of American Gardens at the Smithsonian". Garden Club of Nashville.
  3. 1 2 3 4 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


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