- Thomas Brown House (Franklin, Tennessee)
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- for the Mississippian culture mounds site known as Old Town, see Old Town (Franklin, Tennessee)
Old Town
Nearest city: Franklin, Tennessee Coordinates: 35°59′37″N 86°56′10″W / 35.99361°N 86.93611°WCoordinates: 35°59′37″N 86°56′10″W / 35.99361°N 86.93611°W Area: 2.8 acres (1.1 ha) Built: 1846 Architect: Lilly,Pryor Architectural style: Greek Revival, Central passage plan Governing body: Private MPS: Williamson County MRA (WM-397) NRHP Reference#: 88000324[1] Added to NRHP: April 14, 1988 Old Town, also known as the Thomas Brown House, is a house in Franklin, Tennessee at Old Town that was built by Thomas Brown some time between 1842 and 1854.[2] It is a two-story frame structure built on an "I-House" plan, an example of vernacular architecture showing Greek Revival influences. The Thomas Brown House is among the best two-story vernacular I-house examples in the county (along with the William King House, the Alpheus Truett House, the Claiborne Kinnard House, the Beverly Toon House, and the Stokely Davis House).[3]:42[4]
It was located on the Harpeth River branch of the Natchez Trace.
Singer Jimmy Buffett owned the house in the late 1980s.[5]
It is built amidst[5][6] and named for, Old Town, a village site of Mississippian culture with mounds. It is located near Old Town Bridge, the remains of a Natchez Trace bridge.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ The Williamson County MRA gives a date of 1842; NRIS gives the date as 1846; McGuinness gives the date as "circa 1854."
- ^ Thomason Associates and Tennessee Historical Commission (February, 1988). "Historic Resources of Williamson County (Partial Inventory of Historic and Architectural Properties), National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination"]. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/64500624.pdf.
- ^ Kelly McGuinness. "Old Town". FranklinIs.com website. http://www.franklinis.com/old-town-s98. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ a b http://books.google.com/books?id=z6ntnxM0s20C&pg=PA139, page 139.
- ^ Prehistoric and Pioneer Settlement, Historic Nashville, Inc. website, accessed March 21, 2011
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