Warner Price Mumford Smith House Explained

Warner Price Mumford Smith House
Coordinates:36.2322°N -86.4969°W
Architecture:Greek Revival, Vernacular, I-House
Added:July 22, 1993
Refnum:93000647

The Warner Price Mumford Smith House, also known as Old Home Place, is a historic two-story cedar-plank I-house with a Greek Revival portico in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, U.S.[1] The land was granted to Private Charles Webb; the house later belonged to John Bell Vivrett.[1] It was purchased by Warner Price Mumford Smith and his wife, Augusta Amelia Houser in 1853; the Smiths owned a flour mill and a stagecoach stop.[1] Their son, Robert Edmund Lee Smith, purchased the house in 1909; it was inherited by their daughter Dora Smith Moser in 1967, and by their grandson, Michael F. Moser, in 1991.[1] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 22, 1993.[2]

The anarchist publisher Ross Winn was married to Augusta "Gussie" Smith, and the two lived together in this house from 1900 until Winn's death from tuberculosis in 1912.[3] During this time he published the newspaper Winn's Firebrand, and later The Advance, from this house.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Warner Price Mumford Smith House. National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. June 2, 2017.
  2. Web site: Smith, Warner Price Mumford, House. National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. June 2, 2017.
  3. Slifer, Shaun and Ally Reeves (Summer 2004). "Ross Winn: Digging Up a Tennessee Anarchist". Fifth Estate, pp. 55-57.