Mooreland (Brentwood, Tennessee) Explained

Mooreland
Location:Off U.S. 31, Brentwood, Tennessee
Coordinates:36.0294°N -86.7883°W
Built:c.1838
Architect:Moore, Robert Irvin
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:July 24, 1975
Refnum:75001797

Mooreland is a property in Brentwood, Tennessee that was built c.1838 and that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

It was built by Robert Irvin Moore and includes Greek Revival architecture.

It is one of about thirty "significant brick and frame residences" surviving in Williamson County that "were the center of large plantations " and display "some of the finest construction of the ante-bellum era." It faces on the Franklin and Columbia Pike that ran south from Brentwood to Franklin to Columbia.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=64500624}} Historic Resources of Williamson County (Partial Inventory of Historic and Architectural Properties), National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination ]. Thomason Associates and Tennessee Historical Commission . February 1988 . National Park Service.