William Bowen House

William Bowen House, built in 1787.

The William Bowen House, also known as the Bowen Plantation House or Bowen–Campbell House, is a Federal‑style brick home in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, and the oldest brick building in Middle Tennessee. Captain William Bowen (1742–1804) and his wife Mary (1760–1827) settled in the Cumberland area in 1785 after receiving land grants for service in the French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore’s War, and the American Revolutionary War. Bowen was an early pioneer and Indian fighter, and the house was built between 1787 and 1788 using locally quarried limestone and bricks made on‑site from local clay. The property later became home to Bowen’s son William Russell Bowen and his grandson William Bowen Campbell, who served as U.S. Congressman (1837–1843) and Governor of Tennessee (1851–1853)