Mooreland is a property in
Brentwood, Tennessee that was built c.1838 and that was 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 ...
in 1975.
It was built by Robert Irvin Moore and includes
Greek Revival
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...
architecture.
[
It is one of about thirty "significant brick and frame residences" surviving in Williamson County that "were the center of large plantations " and display "some of the finest construction of the ante-bellum era." It faces on the Franklin and Columbia Pike that ran south from Brentwood to Franklin to Columbia.]
See also
* Mountview, also on the pike north of Franklin and NRHP-listed[
* James Johnston House, also on the pike north of Franklin and NRHP-listed][
*Aspen Grove, also on the pike north of Franklin and a Williamson County historic resource][
* Thomas Shute House, also on the pike north of Franklin and a Williamson County historic resource][
* Alpheus Truett House, also on the pike north of Franklin and a Williamson County historic resource][
]
References
Houses in Williamson County, Tennessee
Greek Revival houses in Tennessee
Residential buildings completed in 1838
National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee
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