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It’s Installed and It’s Beautiful

The long-awaited dream has become a reality. There is now a reproduced Tennessee chocolate marble mantel in the Billiard Room.


A mantel is the focal point of any historic room and a prominent architectural feature. Belmont’s Billiard Room mantel did not survive renovations made by the college in the 1890s.  When restoration work removed those 1890s additions, evidence of a chimney at the north end of the room appeared. Rehorn & Kelly Inc., a monument company here in Nashville, accepted the task of reproducing and installing a mantel known to have been in the mansion in 1860.

Chocolate marble is a native Tennessee stone found just west of Knoxville.  Installed on October 26, this reproduction mantel will be the highlight of Joseph Acklen’s Billiard Room. 

Come see for yourselves, we love it!

 





GPS ADDRESS

Belmont Blvd & Acklen Avenue 

Nashville, TN 37212

MAILING ADDRESS

1900 Belmont Blvd

Nashville, TN 37212

615-460-5459

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Photos by Ed Houk

The architecture of Belmont Mansion makes it one of the most significant homes of 19th century Tennessee.

Sold by the Acklen family in 1887, the house went to a developer who began one of Nashville’s early suburbs.

It was then purchased by two women who in 1890 started a college which evolved into Belmont University. Today the Belmont Mansion Association, which was formed in 1972, owns the collection, runs the museum, and shares this unique story of 19th century Nashville with visitors from far and near.

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