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Pillow Place

Coordinates: 35°34′17″N 87°04′52″W / 35.57139°N 87.08111°W / 35.57139; -87.08111
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Pillow Place
Pillow Place is located in Tennessee
Pillow Place
Pillow Place is located in the United States
Pillow Place
Nearest cityColumbia, Tennessee
Coordinates35°34′17″N 87°04′52″W / 35.57139°N 87.08111°W / 35.57139; -87.08111
Built1850
ArchitectNathan Vaught
Architectural styleAnte bellum/ Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.83004271[1] Pillow-Haliday Place
Added to NRHPDecember 8, 1983

Pillow Place also known as Pillow-Haliday Place[2] is an historic plantation mansion located southwest of the city of Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee on Campbellsville Pike.

History

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Gideon Pillow, a surveyor that had moved to Maury County, left 500 acres (200 ha) 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.[3]

NRHP

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

References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Smith, Frazer J. (1993). Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South (Formally White pillars -1941). Dover Publishing. p. 243. ISBN 9780486142227. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  3. ^ Tennessee: A Guide to the State. American Book-Stratford Press. 1939. p. 338. ISBN 9780403021918. Retrieved September 2, 2014.