Mallory-Neely House

Adams Avenue in Memphis once held a row of grand Victorian mansions called Victorian Village, and the Mallory-Neely House is the best preserved of them all. Built in eighteen fifty-two for banker Isaac Kirtland, it passed to cotton factor James Columbus Neely in the eighteen eighties, who expanded it into a twenty-five-room showplace. His daughter Daisy and her husband Barton Mallory moved in around nineteen hundred and changed almost nothing for decades, which is why you can still see furnishings the family bought at the Chicago World's Fair in eighteen ninety-three and the Saint Louis Exposition in nineteen oh four. After Daisy died in nineteen sixty-nine, the house became a museum in nineteen seventy-three, preserving one of the most intact Victorian interiors in the American South.