The Stokely Davis House (also known as Fairmount) was built in 1850 and included

Italianate architecture The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

and

Greek Revival architecture 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 ...

. The house was among the best two-story vernacular

I-house The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk archit ...

examples in the county (along with William King House,

Alpheus Truett House The Apheus Truett House is a frame house located at 228 Franklin Road in Franklin, Tennessee, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1988. Built in 1846, it is a notable example of a two-story vernacular I-house st ...

, Claiborne Kinnard House,

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 Old Town, a.k.a. Thomas Brown House). It had a two-story

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

with

Doric Doric may refer to: * Doric, of or relating to the Dorians of ancient Greece ** Doric Greek, the dialects of the Dorians * Doric order, a style of ancient Greek architecture * Doric mode, a synonym of Dorian mode * Doric dialect (Scotland) * Doric ...

columns, and a two-story frame addition to the rear. Its

central hall plan The central-passage house, also known variously as central hall plan house, center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward ...

interior included

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 ...

-influenced original fireplace mantles with

architrave In classical architecture, an architrave (; from it, architrave "chief beam", also called an epistyle; from Greek ἐπίστυλον ''epistylon'' "door frame") is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of columns. The term can ...

molding and original doors with architrave moldings. Photography was not allowed in the interior, as of its listing. With It was listed on the

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in 1988. On the early morning of January 28, 2014, it burned down. It was removed from the National Register on July 15, 2015.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Italianate architecture in Tennessee Greek Revival houses in Tennessee Houses in Franklin, Tennessee Houses completed in 1850 National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee Former National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee {{WilliamsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub