Pillow Place Explained

Pillow Place
Nrhp Type:nrhp
Nearest City:Columbia, Tennessee
Coordinates:35.5714°N -87.0811°W
Built:1850
Architect:Nathan Vaught
Architecture:Ante bellum/ Greek Revival
Added:December 8, 1983
Refnum:83004271 Pillow-Haliday Place

Pillow Place also known as Pillow-Haliday Place[1] is an historic plantation mansion located southwest of the city of Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee on Campbellsville Pike.

History

Gideon Pillow, a surveyor that had moved to Maury County, left to be divided among his three sons. The Pillow-Haliday Place mansion and plantation buildings were built by master builder Nathan Vaught in 1850, for Major Granville A. Pillow (b.1805 in Columbia, TN; d.1868 in Clifton, TN), and was the second of three Pillow homes built. Vaught also built Clifton Place (1839) for Gideon Johnson Pillow, and Pillow-Bethel House (1855) for Jerome Bonaparte Pillow. The three mansions were closely designed but Pillow Place lacked the second story gallery and the portico had a low parapet at the top instead of a pediment. The mansion was built on the site of Gideon Pillow's old home.[2]

NRHP

The mansion was placed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Maury County, Tennessee on December 8, 1983.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South (Formally White pillars -1941) . Dover Publishing . 1993 . September 1, 2014 . Smith, Frazer J. . 243. 9780486142227 .
  2. Book: Tennessee: A Guide to the State . American Book-Stratford Press . 1939 . September 2, 2014 . 338. 9780403021918 .