Adelicia Acklen
American
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Home | Fairvue | Gallatin | |||||
| 1849/00/00 | Adelicia Hayes Franklin purchases three parcels of land that become the nucleus for her Belmont Estate. | Owner | Belmont | Nashville, TN | |||
| 1849/08/05 | Adelicia Hayes Franklin marries Joseph AS Acklen. They begin construction of Belmont soon after their wedding. William Strickland is said to have been the architect, but no verification of this assumption has been made. | Home | Belmont | Nashville, TN | |||
| 1853/08/00 | Belmont Mansion's construction is complete by late summer and the Acklens move into their new summer home. | Home | Belmont | Nashville, TN | |||
| 1866/00/00 | Adelicia Hayes Franklin is presented at the Court of Emperor Louis Napoleon and his wife Empress Eugenie. | Visitor | |||||
| 1866/00/00 | Adelicia's Grand Tour purchases begin to arrive in Nashville. Her five marble statues, four of which remain in the home. She collected paintings, engravings, portraits and statuary which decorated the mansion. | Home | Belmont | Nashville, TN | |||
| 1867/01/00 | Adelicia demolishes Joseph's art gallery and constructs a new Italianate structure containing a billiard room and bowling alley on the east side of the estate. | Home | Belmont | Nashville, TN | |||
| 1884/12/22 | Adelicia and three of her adult children leave Belmont to winter in Orlando, Florida. This is the last time Adelicia sees Belmont in her lifetime. | Home | Belmont | Nashville, TN | |||
| 1885/00/00 | Adelicia and three of her adult children move to Washington DC. She begins construction on a new home at 1776 Massachusetts Ave in Washington, DC (razed). | ||||||
| 1887/01/11 | Adelicia sells Belmont to Lewis T Baxter who heads a land development company planning to divide the estate into building lots. | Owner | Belmont | Nashville, TN |
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