Richland–West End Historic District | |
![]() Central Avenue in 2014 | |
Location | Roughly bounded by RR tracks, Murphy Rd., Park Circle, Wilson and Richland Aves., Nashville, Tennessee |
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Coordinates | 36°08′10″N 86°49′44″W / 36.1360°N 86.8289°W |
Area | 135 acres (55 ha) |
Architectural style | Bungalow/craftsman, Foursquare |
NRHP reference No. | 79002425 [1] |
Added to NRHP | April 16, 1979 |
The Richland–West End Historic District is a historic district on the Western side of Nashville, Tennessee. It comprises approximately a 12-block area consisting mostly of Bungalow/craftsman architecture and about 70 Foursquare-style houses. [2]
In the Antebellum Era, the district was a plantation owned by John Brown Craighead, the son of Presbyterian minister Thomas B. Craighead. John Brown Craighead's wife, Jane Erwin Dickinson, was the widow of a man killed in an 1806 duel with future U.S. president Andrew Jackson. [2] The plantation remained in the Craighead family until the end of the American Civil War. [2] By 1905, the Richland Realty Company developed the area, by laying out streets and building bungalows. [2]
The district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 16, 1979. [1]
The original Craighead House has award-winning gardens and architecture.
Richland–West End Historic District | |
![]() Central Avenue in 2014 | |
Location | Roughly bounded by RR tracks, Murphy Rd., Park Circle, Wilson and Richland Aves., Nashville, Tennessee |
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Coordinates | 36°08′10″N 86°49′44″W / 36.1360°N 86.8289°W |
Area | 135 acres (55 ha) |
Architectural style | Bungalow/craftsman, Foursquare |
NRHP reference No. | 79002425 [1] |
Added to NRHP | April 16, 1979 |
The Richland–West End Historic District is a historic district on the Western side of Nashville, Tennessee. It comprises approximately a 12-block area consisting mostly of Bungalow/craftsman architecture and about 70 Foursquare-style houses. [2]
In the Antebellum Era, the district was a plantation owned by John Brown Craighead, the son of Presbyterian minister Thomas B. Craighead. John Brown Craighead's wife, Jane Erwin Dickinson, was the widow of a man killed in an 1806 duel with future U.S. president Andrew Jackson. [2] The plantation remained in the Craighead family until the end of the American Civil War. [2] By 1905, the Richland Realty Company developed the area, by laying out streets and building bungalows. [2]
The district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 16, 1979. [1]
The original Craighead House has award-winning gardens and architecture.