It was built in 1904 Smith Murphey II, a planter who owned 26,000 acres of arable land.

After he died in 1904, his widow married Hugh Jackson Jennings, a planter and philanthropist who supported the Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis.

[2] The house was designed by Frank R. McGeoy in the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival architectural styles.

[2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 25, 1982.

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