Urban Cowboy

Top choice in East Nashville


In a word: stunning. Nashville's most exciting sleeps are in a Queen Anne Victorian–style mansion dating from the 1890s, which nurtures seven individually designed rooms linked by a Southwestern art deco aesthetic. Exquisite details pop everywhere you look: meticulous hand-printed wallpaper; original mansion flooring recast as rustic copper-and-wood wall art; and gorgeous claw-foot bathtubs in every room.

Our favorite rooms are Midnight Rambler, with charred wooden walls and a faux furry comforter; Captain, a nautical-themed hideaway with a low-slung bed and porthole window; and Watchtower, with its grand starburst of a chandelier. Grab a drink in the musical parlor, full of exquisite instruments you can play (only if you can play), or out back at the cool Urban Cowboy Public House.


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