Ashcrest Farm

The land was purchased in 1810 by Hubbard Saunders, a Methodist preacher from Virginia who was married to William Russell's daughter.[2] In 1828, the land was inherited by his daughter, Nancy Saunders, who married Robert A. Harper.[2] The Harpers lived on the farm, and they owned slaves.[2]

The farm was subsequently inherited by their daughter, Clara Reed Harper, and her husband, Cornelius Weistling Callender.[2] They had two sons, William Sample Callender and Samuel Ewing Callender.[2] Cornelius served as the president of Ole Soule College in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and later the Tennessee Female College in Franklin, Tennessee.[2]

By 1858, Cornelius used his slaves to build the house until 1861, when the American Civil War began.[2] It was designed in the Classical Revival architectural style.[2] The construction of the house was completed by a builder named John Mir after the war.[2] After Cornelius died, the house was inherited by their son William, but it was purchased by Ewing in 1906.[2] Ewing and his wife Pauline moved there with their daughter, Elisabeth Ewing Callender, in 1913, and they hired African-American laborers to remodel the house in 1914.[2] It was later inherited by Elizabeth, who lived there with her husband, Charles Cornelius (Neil) Chenault.[2]

The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 14, 1992.[3] By 2014, it belonged to Elizabeth's son, Neil Chenault family, and it was a horse farm.[4]