Oak Top

Oak Top
Oak Top is located in Tennessee
Oak Top
Location within Tennessee
Oak Top is located in the United States
Oak Top
Location within the United States
Location107 Madison Terrace, Clarksville, Tennessee
Coordinates36°31′21″N 87°20′15″W / 36.52250°N 87.33750°W / 36.52250; -87.33750 (Oak Top)
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1850s
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.80003850[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 8, 1980

Oak Top, also known as The Smith Place, is a historic mansion in Clarksville, Tennessee, U.S.. It was built in the 1850s for Thomas W. Wisdom, a county judge.[2] From 1869 to 1890, it was owned by Sterling Beaumont, a tobacco industrialist and banker.[2]

The house was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style.[2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 8, 1980.[1]

Notable owners

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Shain Terrell (April 7, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Oak Top / The Smith Place". National Park Service. Retrieved April 23, 2018. With accompanying eight photos from 1980
  3. ↑ Whatley, Kevin; Collins, Deborah L. (2011). "The Gilded Age and Progressive Era in the American South: A Critical Biographic and Historiographical Analysis of Francis Gracey Childers (1860–1921)". Vanderbilt University Press. Tennessee State Library and Archives. Retrieved July 22, 2026.