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Belmont Mansion (Tennessee)

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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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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Mansion 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Nashville, United States 2
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1849 1
Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Mansion 1
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Mansion, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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Source Belmont Mansion (Tennessee) (Wikipedia)
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1. Belmont Mansion (Tennessee) (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    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.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field
    completion_date/completed = 1849-1853
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field
    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
  • In Style: Greek Revival Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Greek Revival, Italianate
  • In Style: Italianate Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Greek Revival, Italianate
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2. Belmont Mansion (Tennessee) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Nashville, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Nashville, United States
Wikidata item Q4884396, property P131/P17 (location): Nashville, United States
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