Pillow Place also known as Pillow-Haliday Place is an historic plantation mansion located southwest of the city of Columbia, Maury County,

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on Campbellsville Pike.

History

Gideon Pillow, a surveyor that had moved to Maury County, left 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 Gideon Johnson Pillow (June 8, 1806October 8, 1878) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, having previously served as a general of United States Volunteers during the Mexican–Ame ...

, 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

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had a low

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at the top instead of a

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. The mansion was built on the site of Gideon Pillow's old home.

NRHP

The mansion was placed on the

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listings in Maury County, Tennessee on December 8, 1983.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Houses in Columbia, Tennessee Houses completed in 1850 1850 establishments in Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Maury County, Tennessee {{Tennessee-struct-stub