The Latimer House standing among trees, its logs and stone chimney visible.

The Latimers built it. The Browns saved it. We keep it.

Two families, two hundred years, and a house that outlasted both of them. Four doors in. Start wherever you like.

The 1790's
When it was raised
0.805 acres
The park today
Two families
Latimers and Browns

Four ways in

Where to start.

Each door opens on a different part of the story.

The log house standing among trees behind a split rail fence, its hand hewn logs and stone chimney visible.

01

The Log House

Hand hewn logs, cut on this ground and raised in the 1790's. Somebody covered them in brick a hundred years later. We are taking it off by hand.

A family traveling by ox cart along a wooded road, men walking alongside the team.

02

The Latimers

Charles Latimer built the house. His father Jonathan came home from Saratoga, put the family in ox carts, and brought them to Tennessee.

Martha and Bill Brown, photographed together.

03

The Browns

The last family to own it privately, and the reason it is still standing. They had no obligation to this house and they took it on anyway.

The house and the ground around it seen from above, trees and paths across the parcel.

04

The Park

0.805 acres, with the house at the middle of it, named in the codicil as the park's centerpiece.

There is a lot of work ahead, and we would welcome your help.

Every gift goes into the house and the ground around it. Thank you.