Belmont Mansion preserves an unusually substantial piece of pre-Civil War Nashville on the Belmont University campus. Built as the Acklen family's summer estate, the house offers a close look at nineteenth-century rooms, decorative details and the lives connected to the property. Interpretation includes both free and enslaved people rather than the owners alone. Plan around the available tour format, with enough time to absorb the house's scale and its place in the city's history.