Fairfax is a historic mansion in
White Pine
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,
Jefferson County,
Tennessee
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, USA.
History
The mansion was completed in 1840.
It was built by
Lawson D. Franklin
Lawson D. Franklin (January 19, 1804 – April 8, 1861) was an American planter, slave trader and businessman in the plantation era, antebellum Southern United States, South. He was the first millionaire in Tennessee.
Early life
Lawson D. Franklin ...
(1801–1861), Tennessee's first millionaire, for his son, Isaac White Rodgers Franklin, Sr. (1827–1866).
It was designed in the
Greek Revival architectural style.
Senator
Herbert S. Walters
Herbert Sanford Walters (November 17, 1891August 17, 1973) was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1963 to 1964.
Early life and education
Walters was a native of Jefferson County, Tennessee. He was a graduate of the former Ca ...
grew up in this house.
By 1953, it was acquired by Thomas H. Berry and his wife, Ellen McClung.
[ ] They restored it a year later, in 1954.
They hired Irish painter James Reynolds to do the murals in the living-room.
Architectural significance
It has been listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
since April 13, 1973.
The house was surveyed and photographed for the Historic American Buildings Survey, where it is called the Isaac Franklin House.
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References
Houses in Jefferson County, Tennessee
Houses completed in 1840
Greek Revival houses in Tennessee
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Tennessee
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