The William Steele House is a property in

Franklin, Tennessee Franklin is a city in and county seat of Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. About south of Nashville, it is one of the principal cities of the Nashville metropolitan area and Middle Tennessee. As of 2020, its population was 83,454 ...

, United States, that was listed on the

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in 1988. It dates from c.1850. It includes

Central passage 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 ...

and other architecture. When listed the property included three

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and three contributing structures on an area of . The NRHP eligibility of the property was covered in a 1988 study of Williamson County historical resources.

William Alexander Steele

William Alexander Steele was born in 1827 and was the son of William Steele who had settled in the Bethesda area in the early 1800s. Steele married his cousin Mary Elizabeth Steele in 1850 and constructed the main section of this house circa 1855. During the Civil War Steele served in the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry and was nearly caught by Union soldiers while visiting his home. Upon Steele's death in 1874 the house remained in the possession of his widow who lived until 1911.

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