Tulip Grove

Andrew Jackson Donelson, raised at the Hermitage by his aunt Rachel and her husband, served as Jackson's private secretary from 1829 to 1837. He built Tulip Grove on land inherited from his father, next door to the Hermitage, and finished it in 1836. In 1856 the Know Nothing party named him for vice president beside Millard Fillmore; the ticket took over twenty percent of the vote and carried only Maryland. He sold the house in 1858, lost two sons in the Confederate army, and died in Memphis in 1871.

What the plaque says

Tulip Grove Designed by Jos. Reiff, who was also builder of the Hermitage, this house was built in 1836 for Andrew J. Donelson, Jackson's namesake and secretary. A West Point graduate, Donelson was at one time minister to Prussia, and held other offices. In 1856 he was candidate for vice-president on ticket with Millard Fillmore.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Andrew Jackson's Hermitage — 0.4 mi
  Andrew Jackson's cotton plantation east of Nashville, where visitors can walk to the quarters, Alfred's Cabin and the Enslaved Cemetery as well as the mansion.
• Ryman Auditorium — 10 mi
  The 1892 brick tabernacle in downtown Nashville that was the Grand Ole Opry's home from 1943 to 1974, now a National Historic Landmark and working concert hall.
• National Museum of African American Music — 10 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.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 10 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.

More markers nearby

• The Hermitage — 0.9 mi
• Clover Bottom — 2.4 mi
• Old Hickory Village — 3.6 mi
• Cloyd's Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 4.4 mi