Built c.1840 and 1864 NRHP Reference # 76001807 Added to NRHP 26 March 1976 | Built by James Johnston Area 2 ha | |
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Location S of Brentwood on U.S. 31, Brentwood, Tennessee Architectural styles Greek Revival architecture, Georgian architecture People also search for Thomas Shute House, Alpheus Truett House, Mountview, Mooreland | ||
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.
It includes Greek Revival and Georgian architecture.
When listed, the property included three contributing buildings on an area of 6 acres (2.4 ha).
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." It is among houses in the county having "two-story porticos with large square two-story columns with Doric motif capitals."
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