Baillet House & Tullahoma Fine Arts Center

This home on Jackson St. (US41A) in Tullahoma was built in 1868 for the Baillet Sisters. 100 years later, in 1968 it became the Tullahoma Fine Arts Center.
www.tullahomafinearts.org/past/

Here is the text of the Tennessee Historical Comission Marker:
Jane (Jennie) Baillet 1834 - 1918
Emma Adell Baillet 1838 - 1926
Affa Ann Baillet 1850 - 1934
This house was the home of Jane, Emma, and Affa Baillet whose family purchased the property in 1868. From around 1870 to 1913 the sisters, businesswomen and artists, owned and operated J. & E.A. Baillet Millinery Shop where they created original fashionable ladies wear and hats. Their legacy of Tennessee landscape and genre paintings date from 1870 and include estate portraits and historical sites of Tullahoma.

Here is the text of the Tullahoma History Trail Marker:
Now the city's regional Fine Arts Center, sisters Jennie and Affa Baillet and their parents lived and worked here beginning in the 1870's. Jennie was an artist and the family operated a millinery store downtown. They watched much of what happened in Tullahoma during its prosperous years between 1875 and 1925.