Glen Echo, also known as Harpeth Hall, is a property in Franklin, Tennessee that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is a former plantation house that is now the centerpiece and administrative office of the

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campus. It was designed and/or built c. 1828 by Joseph Ruff. The structure includes

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architecture. The NRHP listing was for an area of with just one contributing building. It was one of about thirty surviving antebellum "significant brick and frame residences" built in Williamson County that were centers of slave plantations. It is one of several of these located "on the rich farmland surrounding Franklin"; others were the Dr. Hezekiah Oden House, the Franklin Hardeman House and the Samuel Glass House, the Thomas Brown House, the

Stokely Davis House The Stokely Davis House (also known as Fairmount) was built in 1850 and included Italianate architecture and Greek Revival architecture. The house was among the best two-story vernacular I-house examples in the county (along with William King ...

, the

Beverly Toon House The Beverly Toon House is a property in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It has also been known as Riverside. It dates from c. 1857. A 1988 study of Williamson County his ...

and the Samuel S. Marten House.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Houses in Franklin, Tennessee Federal architecture in Tennessee Houses completed in 1828 National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee {{WilliamsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub