Pinewood Mansion, also known as the Pinewood Plantation, is a former plantation and historic site located in

Nunnelly, Tennessee Nunnelly is an unincorporated community in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. Nunnelly is located at the junction of state routes 48 and 230, north of Centerville. Nunnelly has a post office A post office is a public facility and ...

. The mansion was built from 1866 to 1868. The

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and ...

was restored in the late 1960s and 1970s by

Lipscomb University Lipscomb University is a Private university, private Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It is affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The campus is located in the Green Hills, Nashville, Tennessee, Green Hills neighborho ...

Dean, Mack Wayne Craig, and it burned down in 1975. It was once listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1971.

History

The house was built in 1868 for Samuel Graham and his wife, Thomasella (née Hardeman), on his 6,500-acre plantation. It later belonged to George Mayhew. The house was vacant for 45 years, before it was purchased in 1968 by Mack Wayne Craig, who served as the academic Dean of David Lipscomb College, later known as

, from 1957 to 1978. Craig restored the home with the help of Margaret Carter, the Chair of the Department of Home Economics at Lipscomb University from 1946 to 1972. The house was listed on the

, and Craig offered tours and rented it for private events. The house burned down on March 15, 1975, while Carter was in the house but Craig was away.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Hickman County, Tennessee Houses completed in 1866 Plantation houses in Tennessee Burned houses in the United States {{HickmanCountyTN-NRHP-stub