Luxury Mansions for Sale
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There are quite a few famous public and private historic mansions in Nashville. Many of these mansions are antebellum because of their pre-Civil War construction time period. The architecture varies widely from Italian to Colonial to Tudor. Here are a few of the more famous public Nashville mansions.
Belmont Mansion
The Belmont Mansion is located on the Belmont University campus near downtown Nashville.
The Belmont Mansion is well worth a tour. It compares to the likes of Hurst Castle in California. The mansion was completed in 1859 and contained exquisite gardens, a zoo, bowling alley and art gallery. These features were at times open to the public. This antebellum, or pre-civil war mansion primarily served as a summer residence for socialite Adelicia Acklen and her family.
Tickets for touring are available on the Belmont Mansion website.
Two Rivers Mansion
The Two Rivers Mansion is situated in Belle Meade between the Stones and Cumberland rivers. William Harding purchased it in 1819. It was originally a 476 acre plantation. He then acquired more acres to accrue the total 1100 acres. Thereafter he married Elizabeth Clopton in 1830. Two years later he died shortly before their only daughter, William Elizabeth Harding, was born.
She inherited the Two Rivers property when she married in 1850 to David McGavock. The couple had one son, Frank McGavock. The family lived in the smaller 1802 house while the Two Rivers Mansion was being built. It was completed in 1859 and was known as the Two Rivers Stock Farm. It was a fully operational farm with over 50 out buildings. Besides livestock, the farm contained an orchard, garden, dairy operation, fox hunting and Morgan horse breeding.
Frank McGavock took possession of the farm in the 1890’s before his son Spence inherited the estate in the early 1900’s shortly after the Great Depression.
Spence married Mary Bransford in 1928. The couple got to work remodeling the mansion. They added plumbing, electricity and heat and lived in the mansion for four years. They moved to Melrose to take care of Mary’s mother and left the farm to be tended by caretakers. Spence died in 1936 leaving the estate to his wife Mary.
Mary didn’t return to Two Rivers until 1954 until her death in 1965. She returned because it was where she said she had been the happiest. Spence and Mary had no children to inherit the property. Mary had several beneficiaries in her will. Additionally, she gave instruction for the remainder of the estate be sold and used as a contribution to the Division of Hematology at Vanderbilt Hospital and Medical School.
The 447 acre estate was purchased by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County in 1966. The 14 acre mansion was set aside. The remaining 433 acres was used to develop two schools, a gold course, park green way, water park, skate park, Frisbee golf course and picnic areas.
The mansion was restored and is used today as a venue for weddings and events.
Other mansions in Nashville include;
Riverwood Mansion
The Mansion at Frontanel
East Ivy Mansion
Historic Travellers Rest House
Mooreland Mansion
Cheekwood
Belle Air Mansion and Inn
Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage
