Goodwinslow, also known as Chapman House, is a historic house in

Raleigh, Tennessee Raleigh is a community in north-central Memphis, Tennessee, United States, named for a formerly incorporated town that used to be at its center. Raleigh is bordered on the west by the community of Frayser, Memphis, Frayser (the boundary being the ...

. It was built from 1875 to 1900 for William Washington Goodwin. With It remained in the Goodwin-Chapman family in the 1970s, and owners and residents included

Eben Eveleth Winslow Eben Eveleth Winslow (May 13, 1866 – June 28, 1928) was a career officer in the United States Army. He graduated from the United States Military Academy ranked first in the Class of 1889, and served in the Army's United States Army Corps of Eng ...

and

Anne Goodwin Winslow Anne Goodwin Winslow (June 14, 1875 – November 25, 1959) was an American novelist and short-story writer who published her first work of prose at the age of 68. Life Born and raised outside Memphis, Tennessee, she married Eben Eveleth Winslow ...

. The house was designed to resemble an

Italian villa A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Typology and distribution Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas ...

. 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 December 6, 1979.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Shelby County, Tennessee Houses completed in 1875 {{ShelbyCountyTN-NRHP-stub