Montpier

{{short description|Historic house in Tennessee, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Montpier

| nrhp_type =

| image = Montpier.JPG

| caption = Montpier, October 2014.

| location = Off Hillsboro Pike, northwest of Franklin, Tennessee

| coordinates = {{coord|35|58|59|N|86|56|1|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Tennessee#USA

| built = 1821

| architect = Perkins, Nicholas

| architecture = Federal, Greek Revival

| added = August 26, 1982

| area = {{convert|2|acre}}

| refnum = 82004073{{NRISref|2009a}}

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Montpier, also known as Nicholas Perkins House, is a two-and-a-half-story brick house built on a stone foundation during 1821–22. It has a gable roof with twin brick chimneys at each gable end. It was built with slave labor. Its original style was Federal, but its facade was modified in the 1859s by addition of a Greek Revival two-tiered portico and a doorway with side lights, corner lights and transom.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=82004073}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Nicholas Perkins House / Montpier |publisher=National Park Service |author= |date= |accessdate= }} with {{NRHP url|id=82004073|photos=y|title=10 photos from 1982}}

File:Montpier Historical Marker.JPG

It was built for Nicholas "Bigbee" Perkins III (1779-1848), of a plantation family. Perkins is notable as the man who recognized Aaron Burr and assisted in Burr's arrest for treason on February 18, 1807.{{Cite web |title=Nicholas Perkins III |url=https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/media/nicholas-perkins-iii/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |language=en-US}}

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.