Thomas Brown House (Franklin, Tennessee)
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| Nearest city | Franklin, Tennessee |
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| Coordinates | 35°59′37″N 86°56′10″W / 35.99361°N 86.93611°WCoordinates: 35°59′37″N 86°56′10″W / 35.99361°N 86.93611°W |
| Area | 2.8 acres (1.1 ha) |
| Built | 1846 |
| Architect | Lilly,Pryor |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Central passage plan |
| MPS | Williamson County MRA (WM-397) |
| NRHP Reference # | 88000324 |
| Added to NRHP | April 14, 1988 |
Old Town, also known as the Thomas Brown House, is a house in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, at the Old Town Archeological Site that was built by Thomas Brown starting in 1846. It is a two-story frame structure built on an "I-House" plan, an example of vernacular architecture showing Greek Revival influences. The Thomas Brown House is among the best two-story vernacular I-house examples in the county (along with the William King House, the Alpheus Truett House, the Claiborne Kinnard House, the Beverly Toon House, and the Stokely Davis House).
It was located on the Harpeth River branch of the Natchez Trace.
Singer Jimmy Buffett owned the house in the late 1980s.
It is built amidst and named for, Old Town, a village site of Mississippian culture with mounds. It is located near Old Town Bridge, the remains of a Natchez Trace bridge.
Thomas Brown was born in Virginia in 1800 and moved to Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1822. Brown became a prominent farmer and purchased a large amount of land from William O'Neal Perkins in 1840. Brown began construction of this two-story frame house in 1846 with builder Prior Lilly acting as contractor. Little is known about Lilly but he is also the attributed contractor of the H.G.W. Mayberry House (MW-676), a brick central passage plan residence built ca. 1856. Thomas Brown was listed in 1860 with real estate valued at $25,000 and personal property of $34.500. At his death in 1870, he owned 546 acres of valuable land along the Harpeth River. Brown had six children and his daughter, Bethenia Brown Miller, lived at the house until her death in 1913.
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