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Photographer: Duane and Tracy Marsteller
Taken: April 13, 2024
Caption: Sweeney-Royston House (1885)
Additional Description: From the National Register nomination:

Merchant/banker James M. Brown commissioned this house as a present for his daughter Matilda and her husband Thomas Sweeney. Brown's commercial ventures also financed his family residence, Ashton Villa (1859/1895; NR 1969), just outside the district at 2328 Broadway. Reputedly designed by Nicholas Clayton, the Sweeney's center passage plan dwelling rises 1-1/2 stories to a complex roofscape graced by dormers. The raised cottage displays eclectic Eastlake detailing executed in turned and jigsawn wood, including a balustrade comprised of ship's wheel motifs. The frame building proved a stylistic trendsetter in the neighborhood, signaling the eclectic and polychromatic influences of the Queen Anne style that prevailed during the late Victorian period.

Submitted: April 25, 2024, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p786105
File Size: 2.641 Megabytes

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