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Transcript:
Hey there, Garden Lovers,
Today is March 2, and this is A Garden a Day with Mædunbroc Gardens. Thank you for being here.
Today, we explore another beautiful southern garden. Built as the summer home for prominent Nashville residents, Joseph and Adelicia Acklen, today’s garden is now part of the Belmont University campus. Today, we are exploring Belmont Mansion in Nashville , Tennessee.
Belmont Mansion is located a short drive — about fifteen minutes — from downtown Nashville and was built on 180 acres between 1849 and 1853. The home measures about 20,000 square feet and was one of the largest homes in the United Sates when it was built.
The Acklens designed the acreage as pleasure gardens with fountains, a greenhouse and conservatory, a bear house, deer park, an aviary, and a zoo. They also had a water tower constructed to water the gardens. The water tower still stands.
In front of the water tower, Mrs. Acklen planted 800-900 roses. In Spring of 2019, the landscape team at Belmont redesigned the rose garden and planted old garden roses that would have been available during the time the Acklen’s planted their gardens. The original garden was about four times larger than the current rose garden.
Original gazebos, statuary, the aviary, and a white marble fountain, placed in 1857, are still standing in the garden.
Today, the mansion is owned by Belmont University and is managed and preserved by Belmont Mansion Association.
The mansion is open for guided tours Monday through Saturday from 10:00 to 4:00 and Sunday from noon to 4:00.
The mansion is listed on the National Registry of Historic Sites.
This is a shorter-than-usual episode and I do invite you to join me here tomorrow to see where were going next.
As a reminder, I release a new episode every single day. You can find past episodes anywhere you listen to podcasts or you can find them at our website — agardenaday.com.
Thanks for listening. If all goes well, I’ll be right back here tomorrow. See you then!
To learn more about Belmont Mansion, check out these links:
https://www.belmontmansion.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_Mansion_(Tennessee)
https://traveladdicts.net/belmont-mansion-nashville/
https://www.historythroughhomes.com/post/belmont-mansion-bellemonte
https://www.visitmusiccity.com/local-business/belmont-mansion
https://antebellumtrail.com/belmont-mansion-nashville-tennessee/
https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TN-01-037-0011
https://www.tnvacation.com/local/nashville-belmont-mansion
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/belmont-mansion/
https://museumsdatabase.com/museums/view/29034#google_vignette
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