Belmont Mansion, also known as Acklen Hall and originally as Belle Monte, is a historic mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, built between 1849 and 1853 for Joseph and Adelicia Acklen. The 36-room, roughly 19,000-square-foot house combines Greek Revival and Italianate architecture and originally stood at the center of 180 acres of elaborate gardens, conservatories, an aviary, a lake and a zoo. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, it is preserved and operated as a museum by the Belmont Mansion Association and Belmont University.
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Belmont Mansion, also known as Acklen Hall, and originally known as Belle Monte, Belle Mont or Belmont, is a historic mansion located in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Belmont Mansion, also known as Acklen Hall, and originally known as Belle Monte, Belle Mont or Belmont, is a historic mansion located in Nashville, Tennessee. It was built with the profits of slavery by Joseph and Adelicia Acklen to serve as the center of their 180-acre summer estate in what was then country outside the city, and featured elaborate gardens and a zoo. They lived much of the rest of
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Greek Revival, Italianate
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Wikidata item Q4884396, property P131/P17 (location): Nashville, United States
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