West Meade

West Meade

West Meade is an historic house on Old Harding Pike in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.[1][2][3][4]

History

It was built in 1886.[2][3][4] 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.[3][4][5][6] It is a red brick mansion with a French Victorian-style porch.[3] It spanned 2,600 acres.[4] The mansion gave its name to the residential neighborhood called West Meade.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 4, 1975.[3] It is privately owned.[3]

References

  1. ↑ E. D. Thompson, Nashville Nostalgia, Westview Publishing Co., 2003, p. 33
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 West Meade Neighborhood
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Nashville Public Library Digital Collection
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Battle of Nashville Preservation Society
  5. ↑ Alfred Sidney Johnson, Clarence A. Bickford, William W. Hudson, Nathan Haskell Dole, The Cyclopedic Review of Current History, Evening News Association, 1896, Volume 5, p. 767
  6. ↑ Harvey G. Hudspeth, Howell Edmunds Jackson , The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, December 25, 2009