Governor's Mansion

One of the seven governors who lived in this house, Hill McAlister, took office in 1933 with the state deep in debt. As part of a push to shrink state spending during the Depression he cut about 2,300 government jobs and reduced the mansion's yearly budget from $35,000 to $1,000. In 1949 the state moved the governor to a house on Curtiswood Lane, and this one served as offices until it was razed in 1979.

What the plaque says

Governor's Mansion A residence built on this site in 1910 served as the residence of the governors of Tennessee from 1921 until 1949, when a residence on Curtiswood Lane was acquired by the state. Governors who lived here were Alfred Taylor, Austin Peay, Henry Horton, Hill McAlister, Gordon Browning, Prentice Cooper and Jim McCord. The building was used as offices before being razed in June 1979.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fisk University and Jubilee Hall — 1.3 mi
  The 1866 school for freed people whose Jubilee Singers paid for Jubilee Hall, a National Historic Landmark, and whose students helped start Nashville's sit-ins.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 1.4 mi
  A room in the downtown library with a circular lunch counter, a timeline and oral histories of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, a few blocks from the stores where they began.
• Tennessee State Capitol — 1.5 mi
  William Strickland's Greek Revival capitol on Nashville's Capitol Hill, finished in 1859 and built from the bottom up with the labor of enslaved men.
• National Museum of African American Music — 1.5 mi
  A downtown Nashville museum, opened in 2021, tracing gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop through Black history from 1619 to 2016.

More markers nearby

• Vanderbilt University — steps away
• Vanderbilt Memorial Gymnasium — 0.4 mi
• Anne Dallas Dudley — 0.4 mi
• John Robert Bradley — 0.6 mi