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The Memphis landmark now known as Annesdale Mansion was built by Dr. Samuel Mansfield, a prominent wholesale druggist, in the early 1850s. The home was used as a hospital in the Civil War following the Battle of Shiloh.

It was purchased in the late 1860s by Robert Campbell Brinkley (1816-1878), Memphis railroad baron and builder of the original Peabody Hotel, and given to his daughter Annie Overton Brinkley as a wedding present upon her marriage to Col. Robert Bogardus Snowden in 1869. The property was renamed Annesdale in her honor. Brinkley also gifted the Peabody Hotel to the couple. Annesdale would be home to the Snowden family for seven generations, until it was sold out of the family in 2010. The house and gardens were completely restored and operated as an event venue for a number of years.

The handsome Italianate villa remains one of the oldest homes in Memphis and anchors the Annesdale-Snowden Historic District in Midtown. Annesdale was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The well-documented house and garden are featured in History of Homes and Gardens of Tennessee compiled by The Garden Study Club of Nashville, 1936, and edited by Roberta Seawell Brandau, pgs. 324-326; and in Good Abode: 19th Century Architecture in Memphis and Shelby
County, Tennessee, Perre Magness, 1983.

Neal Auction Company is pleased to offer property from historic Annesdale Mansion. Additional property, including documents related to the Brinkley/Snowden family and the development of Memphis railroads will be featured in our June auction.