He built a white-columned mansion outside Nashville, wore Nudie suits and collected cars with bull horns for hood ornaments.

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Set up in the 1830s as a residential area for those who did not want to associate with the Europeans living in the French Quarter, the land parcels were large, the money used to fund the buildings was new, and each white-columned mansion was built to outdo the one before it.

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