Eli Rayner House

Historic house in Tennessee, United States

United States historic place


Eli Rayner House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The Eli Rayner House in 2017
35°7′6″N 90°0′40″W / 35.11833°N 90.01111°W / 35.11833; -90.01111
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1856
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	77001292^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 9, 1977

The Eli Rayner House is a historic house in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.. It was built in 1856 for Eli Rayner, a planter, and his wife May A. Jones.^[2] The Rayner were well-connected: Rayner's first cousin was Kenneth Rayner, and their daughter Irene married Thomas B. Turley.^[2]

The house is a relatively sophisticated Late Greek Revival-style building, with "elegantly proportioned fluted columns capped with lotus leaf Corinthian capitals, supporting the pediment with simple scrolled triglyphs...." A cast-iron balcony, original or from before 1900, is at the second floor level within the two-story portico.^[2]

The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 9, 1977.^[3]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c John W. Spence, Jr. (December 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Eli Rayner House". National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 28, 2017. With 4 photos from 1976.
^ "Rayner, Eli, House". National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 28, 2017.