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An opulent Italian-style villa on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, Belmont Mansion is the largest house museum in Tennessee and a remarkable monument to the wealth and ambition of one of the antebellum South's most formidable women. Built in the 1850s for Adelicia Acklen, the lavish mansion and its surrounding pleasure grounds were among the grandest in the region before the Civil War. The house was created as a summer residence by Adelicia, a twice-widowed heiress of extraordinar...