The Hunt-Moore House is a historic house in Huntland, Tennessee, U.S..

History

The house was built in 1852 by slaves for Clinton Armstrong Hunt and his wife, Tapheneas Cooke Lipscomb. With Hunt's grandfather, John Hunt, was the namesake of

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, and his nephew,

David Lipscomb David Lipscomb (January 21, 1831 – November 11, 1917) was a minister, editor, and educator in the American Restoration Movement and one of the leaders of that movement, which, by 1906, had formalized a division into the Church of Christ (with ...

, was the Nashville Bible School, later known as

Lipscomb University Lipscomb University is a private university in Nashville, Tennessee. It is affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The campus is located in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, between Belmont Boulevard to the west and Granny White Pike on ...

. The house was inherited by Hunt's daughter Anne and her husband, Horatio Richardson Moore. During the

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of 1861–1865, Moore served in the

Confederate States Army The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...

. He served in the

Tennessee General Assembly The Tennessee General Assembly (TNGA) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is a part-time bicameral legislature consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives. The Speaker of the Senate carries the additional title ...

from 1873 to 1875. One of their children, Hugh Benton Moore, and his wife Helen Edmunds Moore, developed

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, where he built the Col. Hugh B. and Helen Moore House, listed on the NRHP. The Hunt-Moore House was inherited by their other children. The house 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 November 9, 2005.

References

National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Tennessee Federal architecture in Tennessee Greek Revival architecture in Tennessee Houses completed in 1852 {{FranklinCountyTN-NRHP-stub