West Meade is a historic mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.West Meade Neighborhood
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Location

The mansion is located on Old Harding Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. The road was named for the Harding family that owned Belle Meade Plantation until 1906. It had thousands of acres that have since been developed as parts of the city and Belle Meade, Tennessee.

History

The mansion was built in 1886 for

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(1832–1895) and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née Harding), second daughter and last child of

William Giles Harding William Giles Harding (1808 – December 15, 1886) was a Southern planter, attorney, and horse breeder who was made a Brigadier General in the Tennessee militia before the American Civil War. He took over operations of Belle Meade Plantation near ...

(1808–1886), owner of the Belle Meade Plantation. Harding had given them a tract of 2600 acres in the western section of his 5400-acre plantation. They had the mansion built and called the property "West Meade". Alfred Sidney Johnson, Clarence A. Bickford, William W. Hudson, Nathan Haskell Dole, ''The Cyclopedic Review of Current History'',

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''The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', December 25, 2009 The red brick mansion has a French Victorian architecture, Victorian-style porch. After Belle Meade Plantation was sold in 1906, this area was developed as a residential neighborhood called West Meade after the mansion. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. To this day, the house is privately owned.

Architectural significance

The three-story house is made of red, hand-polished brick. There are 20 rooms on the first two floors; the third contains a ballroom and includes a widow's walk. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 4, 1975, as an example of the elaborate Victorian mansions built in Nashville in the late 1800s.

References

Houses completed in 1886 Houses in Nashville, Tennessee Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Nashville, Tennessee {{DEFAULTSORT:West_Meade_historic_home