Richland-West_End_Historic_District

Richland–West End Historic District

Richland–West End Historic District

Historic district in Tennessee, United States

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]

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History

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.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    David H. Paine and Ann V. Reynolds (February 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Richland–West End Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved February 13, 2016. with more than 200 photos from 1979


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