Clifton Place is an historic plantation mansion located southwest of the city of Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee on the Mt.
[2] Master builder Nathan Vaught started construction in 1838, and the mansion and other buildings were completed in 1839, for Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-1877) on land inherited from Gideon Pillow.
Clifton Place was the first of three mansions built for the Pillow brothers by Vaught.
In 1852 the roof was raised and a pedimented portico supported by columns was added to the facade.
This article about a property in Maury County, Tennessee on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.