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Goodwinslow, 4066 James Rd., Memphis TN - Built Circa 1886

Goodwinslow was placed on the National Register on Dec. 6, 1979.

Considered to be the oldest house in Raleigh, construction of the Goodwinslow Home (also known as Chapman House) started about 1875 and was finished around the turn of the century. The original owner, William Washington Goodwin, served in the Confederate cavalry under General N.B. Forrest during the Civil War. Inspired by architecture he saw in Europe, Goodwin had design elements incorporated into the composition of his home. The earliest section resembles a medieval Germanic castle and the outline of Goodwin’s English garden still remains. Added in 1880, a steeply pitched gable roof covers a single story middle section. The final sections, added in 1890 and 1900, were inspired by Italian villas. A two-and-a-half story crenellated tower with small turrets stands behind the center section. The interior of the home contains twenty rooms with a mixture of styles including Medieval-style fireplaces mixed with Corinthian capitals.

Anne Goodwin Winslow was born on her family’s estate outside Memphis, Tennessee, she and her sisters were educated by their attorney father in a rather laissez-faire manner. He gave them the run of his library and encouraged them to spend long hours reading and thinking and talking about what they read. Then, when she was still a teenager, Eben Eveleth Winslow, a West Point graduate and captain in the Corps of Engineers, asked for her hand and off she went into the itinerant life of an Army wife. Their tours included Oahu, where Winslow oversaw the construction of Fort DeReussy and other fortifications, and Panama, where he built bases to protect the new canal. He became the Army’s expert on coastal fortifications, and his 1920 book, Notes on Seacoast Fortification Construction, can be found on the Internet Archive. Over a thirty year career, he rose to be the acting Chief of Engineers when the U. S. entered World War One in 1917 and led the enormous expansion of the Army’s ranks and facilities over the next two years.

When General Winslow retired in 1922, he and Anne headed back to Anne’s family home outside Memphis. There they oversaw the raising of cotton, fruit and nuts, pigs and cattle, and she began to write and publish her poetry. Winslow died in 1928. With both her children grown and out of the house, Anne settled into the graceful life of a dowager, with a steady stream of visitors to keep things interesting.

Her poetry was quickly accepted by such journals as the Atlantic and the North American Review, and she developed friendships with a number of literary figures, including Vachel Lindsay and William Alexander Percy. Allen Tate and his wife, Caroline Gordon, became particular friends, and the aging Ford Madox Ford came along for a visit while on his extended stay with the Tates as their house guest. In one of his very last books, Great Trade Route (1937), Ford described the Winslow home as antebellum menagerie, very relaxed, where, “… peacocks wandered nonchalantly in and out of the room, and it was quiet, and profuse, and hospitable.” Life there seemed “to run on wheels in a deep shade.”

With both her children grown and out of the house, Anne settled into the graceful life of a dowager, with a steady stream of visitors to keep things interesting.

'Dowager'' is such a funny word...it doesn't sound inherently graceful. So I had to search for exactness. Apparently, it's cool to be a dowager. lol Who knew.

Dowager: a widow with a title or property derived from her late husband.
"the dowager duchess"
INFORMAL
a dignified elderly woman.
"a handsome dowager was standing in front of the mirror"

Goodwinslow was or is also the home of Former Police Commissioner E. Winslow "Buddy" Chapman. He now runs & is the Executive Director of CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County.