Here's the mansion. You'll recognize the burial tomb in front, that's what was moved.
Posted on 11/13/2009 6:04:17 AM PST by Kaslin
Thank you for the suggestions and I will certainly do that. It’s interesting this subject is coming up because I recently finished up reading Glenn Beck’s Arguing with Idiots and in the Presidents chapter, he had Polk rated very high as President and didn’t know why, so I did end up doing a little research and enjoyed what I found.
When I got older, I realized that Polk had much more significance to our history but still couldn’t tell you anything about him. I have to say, as a subject of the public school system, we learned very little (if anything) about him. In fact, if you asked many people my age who dealt with the same education, many wouldn’t even be able to tell you he was once a President.
It’s despicable what was allowed to happen to his downtown Nashville mansion “Polk Place.” He wanted it preserved for perpetuity, had himself interred on the grounds (along with Sarah). Squabbling relatives after her death disregarded his explicit instructions, sold off the property in sections, demolished the President’s mansion (virtually unprecedented in American history) (where an apartment building, called Polk Flats was constructed, now the site of a seedy motel across from the old library), and had Polk & wife DUG UP and reburied on the forlorn northeast side of the State Capitol grounds. Not what Polk wanted at all.
I’ve said many times the state should reacquire those properties, demolish most of what currently stands, reconstruct his old mansion, and put him and Mrs. Polk back where they’re supposed to be.
i had forgotten about all that dj..nice snag
Here's the mansion. You'll recognize the burial tomb in front, that's what was moved.
Thank you for the photograph. It reminds me of how young our country really is.
http://nashvillehistoricalnewsletter.googlepages.com/hownashvilledishonoredapresidentandalter
Here’s another article, which could’ve been written by me (but wasn’t).
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