Built 1886 Opened 1886 Architectural style Victorian architecture Added to NRHP 4 March 1975 | NRHP Reference # 75001750 Area 3 ha Function House | |
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Location Old Harding Pike, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Similar Radnor Lake State Natural A, Belle Meade Plantation, Belcourt Theatre, CoolSprings Galleria, Belmont University | ||
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West Meade is a historic mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
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Location
The mansion is located on Old Harding Pike in Nashville, Tennessee.
History
The mansion was built in 1886. It was the home of Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832–1895) and Mary Elizabeth Harding, daughter of William Giles Harding (1808–1886), owner of the Belle Meade Plantation, who had given them this tract of land. It is a red brick mansion with a French Victorian-style porch. It spanned 2,600 acres.
The mansion, named because it was the western portion of the Belle Meade Plantation, gave its name to the residential neighborhood called West Meade. To this day, it is privately owned.
Architectural significance
The three story house is made of red, hand-polished brick. There are 20 rooms on the first two floors, the third contains a ballroom and includes a widow's walk. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 4, 1975 as an example of the elaborate Victorian mansions built in Nashville in the 1800s.