Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art
Cheekwood is a 55-acre historic estate on the western edge of Nashville, Tennessee that houses the Cheekwood Estate & Gardens. Formerly the residence of Nashville's Cheek family, the 30,000-square-foot Georgian-style mansion was opened as a botanical garden and art museum in 1960.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Garden
- Description: American nonprofit organization
- Also known as: “Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Belle Meade Plantation and Warner Parks.
Belle Meade Plantation
Museum
Photo: Colin1769, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Belle Meade Plantation, now officially titled Belle Meade Historic Site and Winery, is a historic farm established in 1807 in Nashville, Tennessee, built, owned, and controlled by five generations of the Harding-Jackson family for nearly a century.
Warner Parks
Park
Photo: Plduthie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Edwin Warner Park and Percy Warner Park, collectively known as Warner Parks, are two major public parks in Nashville, Tennessee. They are part of the park system managed by the Metropolitan Board of Parks and Recreation of Nashville and Davidson County.
Hillwood High School
School
James Lawson High School is a public high school located in Nashville, Tennessee, and is part of the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. Athletic teams are known as the Lightning and the school colors are baby blue and yellow. James Lawson opened in 2023. Hillwood High School is situated 2 miles north of Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forest Hills and Green Hills.
Forest Hills
Village
Forest Hills is an incorporated city in Davidson County, Tennessee that operates its own municipal government under a general law manager–commission charter. Forest Hills is situated 2½ miles southeast of Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art.
Green Hills
Hamlet
Green Hills is an affluent neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Green Hills is located south of downtown Nashville on Hillsboro Pike. Green Hills is within a region extending south to Forest Hills and Williamson County and east-west to Oak Hill and Belle Meade. Green Hills is situated 3½ miles east of Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art.
Bellevue
Suburb
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Bellevue is a neighborhood of Nashville, situated about 13 miles southwest of the downtown area via Interstate 40. It is served by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. Bellevue is situated 4 miles southwest of Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art.
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art
- Categories: botanical garden, art museum, nonprofit organization, and estate
- Location: Davidson, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art”
- French: “Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art”
- German: “Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art”
- Italian: “Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art”
- Japanese: “チークウッド・ボタニカル・ガーデン・アンド・ミュージアム・オブ・アート”
- Japanese: “チークウッド”
- Japanese: “チークウッド植物園美術館”
- Japanese: “チークウッド美術館・植物園”
- Macedonian: “Ботаничка градина Чиквуд и музеј за уметност”
- Russian: “Чиквуд (ботанический сад)”
- Russian: “Чиквуд”
- Spanish: “Museo y Jardin Botanico de Cheekwood”
- Spanish: “Museo y Jardín Botánico de Cheekwood”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Highlands of Harpeth Trace and Belle Meade Links.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Percy Warner Golf Course and Harper Hills Plaza Shopping Center.
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