James Park House, Cumberland Avenue and Walnut Street, Knoxville, TN : 無料・フリー素材/写真
James Park House, Cumberland Avenue and Walnut Street, Knoxville, TN / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1812, this Federal-style house was constructed for James Park, and is one of the oldest remaining buildings in Downtown Knoxville. The house’s construction began in the 1790s when the land was owned by Governor John Sevier, but it was never completed due to financial difficulties, and the land subsequently was sold to George Washington Sevier in 1801 and then to James Dunlap in 1807. In 1812, the lot was sold to James Park, a merchant whom immigrated to Tennessee from Ireland, whom finally resumed construction of the house and completed it later that year, and was originally rectangular, with an ell added sometime before 1820, which gave the house its present distinctive shape. While living at the house, Park served as mayor of Knoxville from 1818-1821, and 1824-26, and the house was where President Andrew Jackson stayed while visiting Knoxville in 1830. The house remained in the Park family until 1912, when James Park’s son, Presbyterian Reverend James Park, Jr., died, with the house becoming office space, with medical organizations and clinics occupying the building during most of the 20th Century. The house had a major renovation circa 1968, adding a Colonial Revival-style side wing with an auditorium, with another renovation carried out removing the victorian-era porch from the house. In 2002, the building was purchased to become the headquarters of the Gulf and Ohio Railroads, which saw the house restored to its circa 1912 appearance with a small addition housing an elevator and staircase on the rear facade being the only exterior change from the house’s original appearance, with interior and exterior features including the house’s former picket fence, victorian porch, and chimneys being reconstructed or restored to their former appearance.The house features a painted brick exterior with a side-gable roof on the main wing and a gabled front ell, with a standing seam metal roof, twelve-over-twelve and six-over-six double-hung windows, chimneys at the gable ends, a front door with a transom in the central bay of the original five-bay front facade, a one-story porch with a hipped roof on the front facade of the house and side of the front ell, which features a sawn balustrade, open pier foundation with latticework, columns with stick brackets, decorative trim, and decorative brackets, and a bracketed cornice at the base of the roofline of the house. The contemporary addition features a gabled roof with a narrow connector that attaches to the side of the house, and is clad in fiber cement siding and features a two-story glass curtain wall at a recessed central bay, which allows ample light into the first and second floor hallways inside the wing.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-09-11 18:36:05 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Knoxville, Tennessee, United States 地図 |