Museum
Belmont Mansion
Italianate mansion with a two-hundred-foot greenhouse, rose gardens, and a surviving water tower.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Belmont Mansion in Nashville follows the people who built and tended Adelicia Acklen's estate. It moves from the enslaved laborers who worked the grounds from eighteen forty-nine, through the more than thirty gardeners and craftsmen employed after the Civil War. You will hear about four immigrant gardeners, Henry Gray, Leon Geny, John Harriman, and David McGredy, whose award-winning plants filled a two-hundred-foot greenhouse. Stand near the estate's surviving water tower to see the plumbing that once fed Adelicia's rose garden.
This audio guide was created using AI.