Knollwood (Bearden Hill)
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Knollwood | |
Location | 6411 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Tennessee |
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Coordinates | 35°56′2″N 84°0′32″W / 35.93389°N 84.00889°W |
Area | 9 acres (3.6 ha) |
Built | 1851 |
Architect | Eckle & Newman |
Architectural style | Georgian Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 75001762[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 12, 1975 |
Knollwood is an antebellum historic house at 6411 Kingston Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It is also known as Knollwood Hall, Major Reynolds House, the Tucker Mansion and Bearden Hill. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The
Knollwood was one of several antebellum plantations located along Kingston Pike in what was then western
The Harvey Tucker family, wealthy Knoxvillians involved in the hospitality industry (i.e., Quality Courts, now part of Choice Hotels, Inc.), owned the house in the mid-to-late 20th century. Through the era when the Tucker family lived at Knollwood, the sweeping front lawn remained undeveloped. The house was known informally as the Tucker Mansion in this era. The plantation itself and the front lawn no longer exist, due to surrounding development. The mansion, itself, survives and has been renovated, but it now serves as the headquarters for Schaad Companies. It is not open to the public, but has been used by Knox Heritage for a social event.
References
Notes
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b Knoxville Historic Zoning Commission (October 2006). "The Future of Knoxville's Past: Historic and Architectural Resources in Knoxville, Tennessee" (PDF). p. 19.
Sources
- Knoxville: Fifty Landmarks. (Knoxville: The Knoxville Heritage Committee of the Junior League of Knoxville, 1976), page 18.
External links
- "Knoxville Civil War sites". Archived from the original on February 5, 2012.
- Tucker Hospitality Bio
- Metro Pulse article
- Schaad Companies