1325 Lamar Ave. Memphis, TN
Circa 1855. Very large 2 story Italianate home

Photo by Jim Roberts
Dr. Samuel B. Mansfield (1821-1900) and Mary Bethania Robertson Mansfield (1834-1902) built this home. He and his family lived at He came from Maryland by way of Knoxville. He was a wholesale druggist and owned Mansfield & Co. He was also a director of the Bank of Commerce and of the Memphis city Fire & General Insurance Company.
In 1868, the place was purchased by Col. (Robert) Bogardus Snowden (1836-1909) as a wedding gift to his bride Annie Overton Brinkley Snowden (1845-1923). The Snowden family was both in New York and Memphis. Col. Snowden’s parents were John and Aspaisa Seraphina Imogene Bogardus Snowden - both with deep and wealthy ties to New York and its Dutch history, and he was the leading nice dry goods merchant in Memphis. She was a granddaughter of Judge John Overton. The Snowdens shared their time between New York and Memphis. Col. Snowden named the home Annie’s Dale: a combination of Annie and dale or “woods.”
Col. Snowden helped with several civic improvements: street railways, turnpikes, and sewer systems. He was the leading fancy dry goods merchant in “Rock City” - the nickname of Memphis at the time. His business investments included cotton factoring, banks, railroads, and insurance and land companies. Their son Col. (Robert) Brinkley Snowden was a real estate developer and lived at Ashlar Hall. Brinkley later developed the Annesdale Park subdivision in about 1903- about the first subdivision development in the South.
Their son, John Bayard Snowden (1881-1968) and Roberta Edmunds Galloway Snowden (1894-1948) owned the property next. They wed in 1913. John’s sisters married into the Fargason (Clover Hill plantation) and Boyle (Ridgeland plantation & Boyle Trust & Investment Co.) families.
Roberta's parents were Col. Robert and May Galloway of Galloway Mansion/ Paisley Hall. In 1980, their children Robert G. Snowden and Mary Snowden Todd were owners with 7.5 acres. Both were lifelong Memphians and very involved in business and civic affairs in the city.
In 2013, the home was put up for auction. In 2022, Ken Robison owned the place, and the property was used as a wedding/ special event place. Robison is a principal with Robison-Finch Estate Sales and Appraisals.

In 2023, Bill Townsend purchased Annesdale. He is a Memphian entrepreneur and preservationist who also owns four other historic properties - an old Victorian Village building at 707 Adams Ave; Lowenstein House at 756 Jefferson Ave.; the Masonic Temple at 272 Court Ave. and the Luciann Theatre on Summer Ave. Townsend has plans for limited residential development and keeping Annesdale connected to its namesake neighborhood. NR 1980 See also Ashlar Hall, Lowenstein House, Gallway Mansion/ Paisley Hall
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