Fairfax | |
Location: | White Pine, Tennessee, U.S. |
Coordinates: | 36.0678°N -83.2525°W |
Architecture: | Greek Revival |
Added: | April 13, 1973[1] |
Refnum: | 73001795 |
Fairfax is a historic mansion in White Pine, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA.
The mansion was completed in 1840.[2] It was built by Lawson D. Franklin (1801–1861), Tennessee's first millionaire, for his son, Isaac White Rodgers Franklin, Sr. (1827–1866).[2] It was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style.[2]
Senator Herbert S. Walters grew up in this house. By 1953, it was acquired by Thomas H. Berry and his wife, Ellen McClung.[3] They restored it a year later, in 1954.[3] They hired Irish painter James Reynolds to do the murals in the living-room.[3]
It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 13, 1973.[1] The house was surveyed and photographed for the Historic American Buildings Survey, where it is called the Isaac Franklin House.