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Welch-Causey House
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Built in 1901 for local merchant and businessman Dan Welch, this Queen Anne Victorian was designed by Hubert T. McGee and features five bedrooms, nine fireplaces, four and a half baths, original fireplace mantles, mirrors, and Italian tile in the two front parlors, nine curved glass windows in the two front parlors and upstairs tower room, and an oak staircase leading to the second and third floor. Welch was a Civil War veteran who served in Company G of the 1st Confederate Calvary Regiment under Captain James W. Erwin, a brother of his future wife Cornelia, and he died in 1924. After his death the house became the property of Lon Scott, a World War One Marine Corps officer, Hardin County's first U.S. Congressman, and a former member of the Tennessee State Legislature, who died in 1931 at age 43. Purchased in 1934 by William "Mr. Bill" and Nette Yeiser Nesbett, it remained in the Nesbit family for the next fifty years, then passed briefly to Ken and Elizabeth Ralston in the late 1980s before Ken and Sharon Hansgen bought it and operated the White Elephant B and B there for a number of years. In 2013 the house was sold to Monte and Rhonda Causey and is now a private residence. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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