Rippavilla Plantation
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Rippavilla Plantation, also known as Meadowbrook and Nathaniel Cheairs House,[1] is a former plantation, historic house and museum, located in Spring Hill, Tennessee. This plantation had been worked by enslaved Black people for many years.[1] It is open to visitors as a historic house museum.[2]
It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1996, for its architectural significance.[1]
History
The Cheairs family were part of a 1810 land grant awarded by President James Madison.[1] Initially the property included a 1500-acre farm.[1] Nathaniel Frances Cheairs IV (1818–1914) resided on the property along with his wife, Susan Peters Cheairs (née McKissack; 1821–1893) until her death. Around 1840, the Cheairs family owned 46 enslaved black people and up to 75 by 1860 (Rippa Villa, Battle of Franklin Trust).[1] Nathaniel Frances Cheairs IV served in the Confederate Army, however the Rippavilla Plantation sustained minimal damage during the American Civil War.[1]
The plantation house was built in several phases but was extensively remodeled between 1928 and 1932.[1] Its architectural style was antebellum Greek Revival, however modifications to the house were done in a 20th-century Colonial Revival style.[1]
His son, William McKissack Cheairs took ownership of the home until he sold it in 1920 to John G. Whitfield, a coal tycoon from Alabama.[1]
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External links
- [1] - official site
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- Antebellum architecture
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- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
- Historic house museums in Tennessee
- Museums in Maury County, Tennessee
- Plantation houses in Tennessee
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- National Register of Historic Places in Maury County, Tennessee
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