Places · Landmark
Lotz House
The house Johann Albert Lotz, a German-born carpenter and piano maker, finished in 1858 across Columbia Avenue from the Carter House. It took cannon fire in the battle and then served as a hospital for both armies. The Lotz House Foundation runs it as a museum, and the woodwork is the reason to go.
The facts
Where and what.
- What it is
- Landmark, historic house
- Town
- Franklin, Williamson County
- Website
- lotzhouse.com
- Phone
- 615-790-7190
- Hours
- Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- What it costs
- Specialty tours are $25 for adults ($30 for the ghost tour, $40 for the hands-on cellar dig), less for children. The museum's own pages do not print the price of the standard house tour.
- What is there
- Three carved mantels and a free-standing black walnut staircase, with an upside-down piano leg for a newel post.
- Paintings by Matilda Lotz, the daughter who grew up here and became a noted painter of animals.
- Guided house tours, and ghost, women's history, battlefield walking and cellar tours and a hands-on cellar dig; most need a reservation.
- During the battle the family sheltered in the Carter House basement across the street.
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