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Source Collection
Alan Karchmer collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
5_28.C
Description
The Rayner House, 1020 Rayner, Memphis, Tennessee. Built around 1856. Photographer: Alan Karchmer. © Alan Karchmer.
Built by Eli Rayner as the manor house of his 2000-acre cotton plantation, it exhibits some Egyptian Revival influence in the treatment of its columns.
The Greek Revival, a favorite style of ante-bellum Southern planters, arrived in Memphis during the boom years prior to the Civil War. Symmetrical on both axes, these structures derived form and proportion from the ancient Greeks. As this style filtered through to provincial aeras its implementation often became less than academically correct.
Date Created
2021
Date
undated
Recommended Citation
"Rayner House, Memphis" (2021). Images. 96.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-karchmera2/96
Keywords
Architecture--Tennessee--Memphis.
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