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Belle Meade is a Greek Revival antebellum plantation that once comprised 5,400 acres and was one of America's premier thoroughbred horse farms. The restored 1853 mansion sits on 30 landscaped acres in the affluent Belle Meade neighbourhood, about 15 minutes southwest of downtown.
John Harding purchased the property in 1807. By the 1880s, Belle Meade's thoroughbred breeding programme had produced Iroquois, the first American horse to win the English Derby. The plantation was sold at auction in 1906 and became a museum in 1953.