561 East Main St. Jackson, TN
Circa 1906 3- story Grand Dutch Colonial Revival house
Picture from POEMS Historic Preservation, Jackson, TN
The Curtiss family erected an unusual Grand Dutch Colonial Revival home on East Main. Lewis Lincoln “L.L.” Curtiss (1860-1943) and Cornelia Raymond Curtiss(1859-1922) wed in 1881 and built this home a couple decades later. The third floor holds a ballroom.
Curtiss was affiliated with William H. Coleman Co. for over half a century. He was on the Tennessee State Highway Commission that chartered the Bristol to Memphis Highway (which passed through Jackson) and later was the route for the U.S. Highway 70 - thus helping to tie the state together.
After Cornelia's passing, Curtiss remarried to Isabelle Curtiss (1873-1938) in 1924. She served as head of the music department for Lambuth University. Floy Conklin Partridge Curtiss (1884-1963)(m.1939) was his third wife.
John E. Palmer and Sue Palmer owned Curtiss House at some point.
From POEMS Historic Preservation
In 2011, the house was repurposed into Studio 561, an art studio and gallery.
In 2024, the Curtiss House had been turned back into a residential home and restored.
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