Rucker Betty LaRoche House: 3978 Betty Ford Road

This is the childhood home of award-winning artist Willie Betty Newman, whose mother, Sophie Rucker Betty, inherited the house (1832) shortly after Willie was born. Newman studied at Soule College, the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and the Julian Academy in Paris. After twelve years in Paris, she returned to Tennessee, where she taught art in Nashville and painted posthumous portraits of John C. Bell and James K. Polk for the U.S. Congress. She received the Parthenon medal from the Nashville Museum of Art. The house is listed on the National Register.