The Parkridge Home Tour fell at the same time as the Open Streets event making for a conundrum of sorts for me and a number of others. Each started at 1:00 PM, though the Parkridge event...
I get the impression that people just generally don’t consider one of the most interesting – and one of the oldest sites in the city. Blount Mansion has been around since 1792, though not exactly in...
One hundred years ago last month, George and Laura Barber died within nine days of each other while living in a small home in Parkridge. A snow-delayed dinner party was held in that home last week...
The 2014 version of the Knox Heritage Preservation Awards took place last night in the Bijou Theatre. The setting itself is significant because our city’s modern preservation efforts first coalesced around the effort to preserve the...
It’s easy to fall into a pattern of bad news or complaints. We tend toward the negative much more readily than the positive, for some reason. Sometimes I do that on this blog, as positive as...
I’ve dreaded this moment for well over a year. It was over a year ago that St. John’s Episcopal Church submitted a request to the Downtown Design Review Board for permission to demolish two buildings they...
When Brian was ten-years-old his family drove through Knoxville from Texas. As they approached the Tennessee River he noticed a beautiful, old home sitting a stone’s throw from the river’s edge at 623 Hill Avenue. He...
There are good days in the city, great days in the city and then, there was yesterday. It started with an article by the News Sentinel’s Josh Flory in which he reported the owners of the...
I saw this photograph on Facebook this weekend, thanks to Mary Beth Tugwell via Charlotte Tolley and Kim Trent, and felt I should post it as a follow-up to Friday’s article. It’s hard to imagine (at...
Well, in a manner of speaking that’s what I came away with from the Knox Heritage 2012 Preservation Awards and Annual Meeting, but I’ll get to that later. It’s a feel-good meeting attended by several hundred...