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	Airdrie
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	3210 Avenal Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Coordinates	36°06′11″N 86°43′54″W / 36.1031°N 86.7318°W
Area	2.8 acres (1.1 ha)
Built	c.1797-c. 1805; c. 1910
Architect	George Norton
Architectural style	Neoclassical
NRHP reference No.	05001027
Added to NRHP	September 15, 2005

Airdrie, a.k.a. Petway House or the Buell-King House, is a historic house and former plantation in Nashville, Tennessee. Built as a log house from 1797 to 1808, it was a Southern plantation with African slaves in the Antebellum era. After the American Civil War, it belonged to Union veterans.

Location

It is located at 3210 Avenal Avenue in South-East Nashville, the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.^[2]^[3]^[4]

History

The land belonged to John Foreman until it was acquired by William Coldwell in 1797.^[4] The construction of the two-story log house began in 1797, and it was completed c. 1808.^[3]^[4] It included an adjacent log cabin and a horse barn.^[4]

In 1808, Coldwell sold the house to Congressman William Dickson, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1801 to 1807.^[4] In 1817, it was purchased by Congressman Thomas Claiborne, who served in the House of Representatives from 1817 to 1819.^[3] However, Claiborne sold the house in 1818 to Justice Gilbert Gray Washington, who served in the Tennessee Supreme Court.^[3]

In 1825, the house was purchased by Hinchey Petway (1776-1856), a merchant active in Franklin, Tennessee who remained the owner throughout the 1830s and 1840s.^[3] Today, the Hincheyville Historic District in Franklin is named for Petway.^[3] Petway added more land, coming up to 431 acres, and he owned African slaves, who worked on what was by then a Southern plantation.^[3] He lived there with his wife, Susanna Caroline Parrish Petway, and their seven children.^[3] When Petway died in 1856, the house was willed to his widow and their children.^[3] It remained in the Petway family during the Civil War.^[3]

In 1866–1867, the house was purchased by Judge John S. Brien.^[4]^[5] When he died in 1867, the house was inherited by his widow, Rochie Howard Brien (1840-1930), who lived there until her death.^[3] She shared the house with her daughter Rochie, her son-in-law, Union Colonel George P. Buell, who was General Buell's cousin and became the owner of the house, and her grandson, Don Carlos Buell II.^[4] Buell hired architect George Norton to redesign the house in the Neoclassical architectural style circa 1910.^[3]^[4] Norton added poplar weatherboard, a front porch, and a grand staircase inside the house.^[3] Meanwhile, Don Carlos Buell II married Ruth Norton, the architect's sister, and they lived in the house until the 1950s.

In 1953, Ward Allen, a Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, purchased the house from Ruth Norton Buell.^[3] He welcomed meetings of St Matthias Episcopal Church and lived here with his wife Peggy until 1958,^[3] when they sold the house to Charles Toney and his wife Josephine.^[3] In 1963, the house was purchased by R. Harold King and his wife, Dorothy.^[3] The Kings renovated the house.^[3]