Crescent Bend

Designer: Leslie Poker

Embroiderer: Marjorie Campbell

Year Created: 1987

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Crescent Bend is a handsome, two-story house located on Kingston Pike
with a manicured formal Italian garden behind it and nine terraces leading down to the Tennessee River. It was designed and built in 1834 by
prominent landowner Drury Paine Armstrong and named for its view of
a magnificent bend in the river. Originally a working farm, the home was
restored in 1976 to house the Tom’s Memorial Collection of American
and English furniture of the 19th Century as well as English silver from
1640–1820. The three-acre Tom’s Memorial Gardens were added for the
1982 World’s Fair.