Sudley Place is a historic mansion in

Robertson County, Tennessee Robertson County is a county located on the central northern border of Tennessee in the United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 72,803 people. Its county seat is Springfield. The county was named for James Roberts ...

, U.S.. It was built in 1856 for Samuel Bowling Brown, a whiskey distiller. It was purchased by the Fuqua family in the 1930s. Democratic politician

Jesse H. Jones Jesse Holman Jones (April 5, 1874June 1, 1956) was an American Democratic politician and entrepreneur from Houston, Texas. Jones managed a Tennessee tobacco factory at age fourteen, and at nineteen, he was put in charge of his uncle's lumber ...

, who served as the 9th

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from 1940 to 1945, grew up in the house. The house was designed in the

Italianate architectural style The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italia ...

. It has been listed on the

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since January 11, 1974.

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Houses completed in 1856 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Italianate architecture in Tennessee Buildings and structures in Robertson County, Tennessee {{RobertsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub