Erected as the first phase of a master plan, the Woodland House currently serves as a weekend home. Covered bridges and tobacco barns routinely found in rural Tennessee informed the image of the house. The steeply sloping topography of the site molded the half crescent form of the building, which gracefully responds to the contour of the hillside and elevates above the wooded site. An old blast furnace that operated from before the Civil War until post-Wold War II, along with train trestles and fire towers which dot the rural Dickson County countryside aided in informing the image of the bridge and tower. They were designed to accommodate one of the owner's many hobbies - bird watching.