Warner Price Mumford Smith House
The Warner Price Mumford Smith House, also known as Old Home Place, is a historic two-story cedar-plank I-house with a Greek Revival portico in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, U.S.[2] The land was granted to Private Charles Webb; the house later belonged to John Bell Vivrett.[2] It was purchased by Warner Price Mumford Smith and his wife, Augusta Amelia Houser in 1853; the Smiths owned a flour mill and a stagecoach stop.[2] Their son, Robert Edmund Lee Smith, purchased the house in 1909; it was inherited by their daughter Dora Smith Moser in 1967, and by their grandson, Michael F. Moser, in 1991.[2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 22, 1993.[3]
Warner Price Mumford Smith House | |
Nearest city | Mount Juliet, Tennessee |
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Coordinates | 36°13′56″N 86°29′49″W |
Area | 1.8 acres (0.73 ha) |
Built | 1853 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival, Vernacular, I-House |
NRHP reference No. | 93000647[1] |
Added to NRHP | July 22, 1993 |
The anarchist publisher Ross Winn was married to Augusta "Gussie" Smith, and the two lived together in this house from 1900 until Winn's death from tuberculosis in 1912.[4] During this time he published the newspaper Winn's Firebrand, and later The Advance, from this house.
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Warner Price Mumford Smith House". National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
- "Smith, Warner Price Mumford, House". National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
- Slifer, Shaun and Ally Reeves (Summer 2004). "Ross Winn: Digging Up a Tennessee Anarchist". Fifth Estate, pp. 55-57.