Rippavilla Plantation, also known as Meadowbrook and Nathaniel Cheairs House,^[2] is a former plantation, historic house and museum, located in Spring Hill, Tennessee. This plantation had been worked by enslaved Black people for many years.^[2] It is open to visitors as a historic house museum.^[3]

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Rippavilla
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Spring Hill, Tennessee
Coordinates	35°43′54″N 86°57′14″W
Built	1852
Architect	F. Stratton
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	96000773 [1]
Added to NRHP	July 19, 1996

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It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1996, for its architectural significance.^[2]

The Cheairs family were part of a 1810 land grant awarded by President James Madison.^[2] Initially the property included a 1500-acre farm.^[2] Nathaniel Frances Cheairs IV (1818–1914) resided on the property along with his wife, Susan Peters Cheairs (née McKissack; 1821–1893) until her death. Around 1860, the Cheairs family owned at least 40 enslaved black people.^[2] Nathaniel Frances Cheairs IV served in the Confederate Army, however the Rippavilla Plantation sustained minimal damage during the American Civil War.^[2]

The plantation house was built in several phases but was extensively remodeled between 1928 and 1932.^[2] Its architectural style was antebellum Greek Revival, however modifications to the house were done in a 20th-century Colonial Revival style.^[2]

His son, William McKissack Cheairs took ownership of the home until he sold it in 1920 to John G. Whitfield, a coal tycoon from Alabama.^[2]