title: William Steele House
text: # William Steele House
  
  The William Steele House is a property in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It dates from c.1850. It includes Central passage plan and other architecture. When listed the property included three contributing buildings and three contributing structures on an area of 5.5 acres (2.2 ha). The NRHP eligibility of the property was covered in a 1988 study of Williamson County historical resources.
  
  ## William Alexander Steele
  
  William Alexander Steele was born in 1827 and was the son of William Steele who had settled in the Bethesda area in the early 1800s. Steele married his cousin Mary Elizabeth Steele in 1850 and constructed the main section of this house circa 1855. During the Civil War Steele served in the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry and was nearly caught by Union soldiers while visiting his home. Upon Steele's death in 1874 the house remained in the possession of his widow who lived until 1911.
  
  