Annesdale Mansion

Construction of Annesdale was completed in 1855 for Dr. Samuel Mansfield, a Memphis physician, on what was then Pigeon Roost Road (now Lamar Avenue). The two-story Italianate villa contains more than 17,000 square feet of living space, thirteen rooms, eleven fireplaces, and elaborate stained glass and plasterwork.

During the Civil War, the mansion served as a hospital. In 1869, Robert Brinkley — the Memphis businessman who founded the original Peabody Hotel — purchased the property as a wedding gift for his daughter, Annie Overton Brinkley, who had married Colonel Robert Bogardus Snowden. The estate was named 'Annesdale' in her honor. The Snowden family retained ownership for approximately 160 years.

The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 25, 1980. After roughly a century and a half in Snowden hands, the home passed to Ken Robison, who purchased the property in 2010 and converted it into an events venue with an emphasis on preservation rather than renovation. The home was subsequently sold to a preservation-oriented owner.

In June 2016 during work on the home, a bone fragment — possibly human and possibly dating to the home's Civil War hospital period — was discovered in the grate of a boarded-up fireplace. The fragment was sent to a morgue for analysis. This documented discovery, widely reported in local press, anchors much of the home's current paranormal reputation.