Blount Mansion, Hill Avenue, Knoxville, TN : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Blount Mansion, Hill Avenue, Knoxville, TN / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built between 1792 and 1796, this Federal-style house was constructed for William Blount, the first governor of Tennessee and a United States Founding Father. During its early history, the property served as the de-facto capitol building of the Southwest Territory, which had Blount as its governor, and it was the location where much of the Tennessee Constitution was written in 1796 in Blount’s office, just prior to the state’s admission to the United States as the 16th state in the union.The house originally only consisted of the two-story central wing, with the two one-story side wings having been added sometime between the 1790s and 1820. One of the house’s one-story outbuildings served as the Governor’s Office, from which Blount governed the Southwest Territory and later the State of Tennessee after its admission to the United States, along with a detached kitchen and a food storage cellar, all located to the rear of the house. The house also included multiple other outbuildings, including quarters for 10 slaves that the Blount family owned and used to operate their household, which is among the buildings that have been discovered during archaeological investigations in the 20th Century, but has not been rebuilt. Slavery was still a common practice when the house was built and when many historically significant events occurred at the property, though, like a lot of similar historical sites in the south, this part of the house’s history was downplayed during much of the restoration process in the mid-20th Century, and only recently has begun to be highlighted.The house was transferred to Willie Blount in 1797, and then was deeded to William Grainger Blount in 1818. In 1825, the house was sold to the McClung family, and it was sold in 1845 to then-mayor of Knoxville Samuel B. Boyd. The house remained in the Boyd family until the early 20th Century, with the family renting the mansion to various tenants, and adding a large victorian-style porch to the house, among other alterations. By 1925, the mansion was in poor shape and a proposal was made to buy the house, demolish it, and build a parking lot for the Andrew Johnson Hotel that was proposed for the land across the street by developer B. H. Sprankle. In response, local citizens led by Mary Boyce Temple, leader of the Bonnie Kate Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution began efforts to acquire the land, and a fundraising effort began to purchase the house, with the Blount Mansion Association being formed to preserve the property. In 1930, the purchase on the house was completed, ensuring its survival, and restoration began, returning the house to its 1790s appearance and removing later alterations. In 1935, the grounds began to be maintained by the Knoxville Garden Club, and in 1955, a grant from the Tennessee Historical Commission allowed for restoration of the Governor’s Office on the property. In 1960, the rear kitchen building was faithfully reconstructed after an archaeological investigation discovered its foundation and historical research discovered information about its original appearance, and the same year, the rear food storage cellar building was rediscovered, and it was restored. In the 1960s and 1970s, paint chip analysis on the house’s walls rediscovered their original colors, which were restored, additional archaeological investigations were carried out on the property and surrounding land, which uncovered evidence of multiple other outbuildings and late 18th Century artifacts, and architectural investigation and analysis of the house in the 1990s uncovered the multiple phases of construction between 1792 and 1820 that had led to the house attaining its eventual size and shape.The house was one of the grandest houses in what is now Tennessee when it was built, with other houses of the era being largely smaller and more rustic log cabins, with the wood-frame clapboard-clad house being built with materials imported across the Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina, and was built by Blount to fulfill a promise to his wife, Mary Grainger Blount, to build them a house comparable to their more lavish house in North Carolina that they had left to govern the Southwest Territory. The house features a clapboard-clad exterior, brick base, side gable roof, central two-story wing with one-story wings on the east and west ends, three one-story outbuildings to the rear with gabled roofs and clapboard siding, with one of the outbuildings being a partially sunken food storage cellar in the back yard, brick chimneys, six-over-six and six-over-nine double-hung windows, a wood shake roof, and two entry doors on the front facade with transoms, which lead into two interior hallways on either end of the large State Room on the first floor, with a withdrawing room in the east wing and the dining room in the west wing, and a sleeping room on the second floor of the central wing, with a staircase in the western hallway providing access to the second floor, and entry doors in the basement hallway between the central and east wings, and on rear facade of the west first floor hallway.The house has functioned as a historical house museum since the 1930s, and was listed as a National Landmark in 1965. In 1966, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, owing to its major historical significance. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-09-11 18:27:51 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Knoxville, Tennessee, United States 地図 |