The Stokely Davis House (also known as Fairmount) was built in 1850 and included
Italianate architecture and
Greek Revival architecture.
The house was among the best two-story vernacular
I-house
The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk archit ...
examples in the county (along with
William King House,
Alpheus Truett House
The Apheus Truett House is a frame house located at 228 Franklin Road in Franklin, Tennessee, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1988. Built in 1846, it is a notable example of a two-story vernacular I-house ...
,
Claiborne Kinnard House,
Beverly Toon House
The Beverly Toon House is a property in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It has also been known as Riverside. It dates from c. 1857.
A 1988 study of Williamson County his ...
, and
Old Town, a.k.a. Thomas Brown House).
It had a two-story
portico
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many c ...
with
Doric columns, and a two-story frame addition to the rear. Its
central hall plan
The central-passage house, also known variously as central hall plan house, center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward ...
interior included
Greek Revival
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...
-influenced original fireplace mantles with
architrave molding and original doors with architrave moldings. Photography was not allowed in the interior, as of its listing.
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It was 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 ...
in 1988.
[
On the early morning of January 28, 2014, it burned down.]
It was removed from the National Register on July 15, 2015.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
Italianate architecture in Tennessee
Greek Revival houses in Tennessee
Houses in Franklin, Tennessee
Houses completed in 1850
National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee
Former National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
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