Tate was a graduate of Vanderbilt University, English professor and a poet.

[dubious – discuss] His wife, née Caroline Gordon, wrote the novel Children of Innocence in the house.

[2] Literary guests included Donald Davidson, Malcolm Cowley and William Faulkner.

[2] The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 26, 1979.

This article about a property in Montgomery County, Tennessee on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.