Goodwinslow, also known as Chapman House, is a historic house in
Raleigh, Tennessee
Raleigh is a community in north-central Memphis, Tennessee, United States, named for a formerly incorporated town that used to be at its center. Raleigh is bordered on the west by the community of Frayser (the boundary being the north-south Illin ...
. It was built from 1875 to 1900 for William Washington Goodwin.
[ With ] It remained in the Goodwin-Chapman family in the 1970s, and owners and residents included
Eben Eveleth Winslow
Eben Eveleth Winslow (May 13, 1866 – June 28, 1928) was a career officer in the United States Army. He graduated from the United States Military Academy ranked first in the Class of 1889, and served in the Army's Corps of Engineers. A veteran ...
and
Anne Goodwin Winslow.
The house was designed to resemble an
Italian villa
A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions.
Typology and distribution
Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas n ...
.
It has been listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ...
since December 6, 1979.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
National Register of Historic Places in Shelby County, Tennessee
Houses completed in 1875
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