Peach Blossom Collection.
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

Organized into the following series: Papers (1 letter; 2 clippings; 3 blueprints); Photographs (7 - b&w - 1967 - 5 exterior, 2 interior)

Materials housed in Special Collections Division of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Scope and content: First and second floor plans plus exterior and interior photos from 1967 provide a look into Nashville's historic Peach Blossom mansion shortly before it was demolished. Plans and photos were done by Nashville architect Charles Warterfield, Jr., at the behest of the Metropolitian Historical Commission, who at the time hoped the mansion could house a city-owned museum.

Plans missing as of 7/14/2014. - LB.

Cite as: Peach Blossom Collection, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library.

This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code)

Metropolitan Historical Commission donated this collection,Gift;,1968,RT-117.

A related collection in the Special Collections Division is the Charles Warterfield Architectural Collection.

Erected in the first decade of the 1800s, Peach Blossom was built by Capt. Joseph Erwin. His son-in-law, Charles Dickinson, was killed by Andrew Jackson in a duel near Harrison's Mills, Kentucky, May 30, 1806. Dickinson was buried on the grounds June 3, 1806, about 200 yards west of the house. Erwin later moved to Louisiana where he prospered as a planter. His widowed daughter Jane Dickinson married John B. Craighead, and their home still stands near Peach Blossom's old location, on the street named for the Craighead family. Peach Blossom, at 215 Craighead Avenue, later became know to many as "the old Whitworth place," named for longtime resident Mrs. Leonard Whitworth.

In English.

Donated by the Metropolitan Historical Commission by Vice-Chairman Robert A. McGaw.