Reese Witherspoon plans to restore this Nashville mansion
By Emily Heffter, Zillow
Southern belle and Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon plans to renovate a mansion she bought last month in Oak Hill, Tennessee, just outside her hometown of Nashville.
The home was built by a prominent Nashville family, and when it came on the market last year, local automobile scion Lee Beaman and his wife, Kelley, wanted to save it from being torn down and replaced by a mega-mansion. So they bought it and did some basic maintenance. They painted the home’s interior, refinished the hardwood floors and ripped out the outdated kitchen and laundry room, said listing agent Hal Rosson. (Click here or on a photo for a slideshow.)
“It just seemed a shame that so many of these nice homes are being torn down,” Rosson said. “They felt like they would like to save the house.”
Then they put it back on the market -- but with a deed restriction barring the next owner from replacing the home. Witherspoon bought the 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath, 3,855-square-foot mansion for $1.95 million, through a trust, in July.
The stately white home sits at the end of a long driveway on a 6.5-acre flat lot in the upscale Oak Hill area. The Tennessee governor’s mansion is “around the corner,” Rosson said.
The home has an elegant staircase, three fireplaces and a paneled library, but still needs major renovations. Listing photos show the stripped kitchen, missing some of its wallpaper and flooring -- and all appliances.
There’s a small poolside guesthouse on the property, and a brook runs through it.
Witherspoon, whose parents live in the Nashville area, listed her longtime Los Angeles compound earlier this year for $10.5 million.
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