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Poplar Grove
- Photographer
- Lester Jones
- Date of Work
- August 19,1940.
- Medium
- photo
- Credit
- Library of Congress
Poplar Grove
Andrew Jackson Donelson built Poplar Grove on land adjacent to Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage property. The home was completed in 1826 and his wife Emily died there in 1836. Now known as Tulip Grove it was purchased by the Ladies’ Hermitage Association in 1964. A view of the west front is pictured below in 1940.
Historic American Buildings Survey, Lester Jones, Photographer August 19, 1940 WEST ELEVATION, FRONT. - Tulip Grove, Hermitage, Davidson County, TN
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