Fourth and Gill, Knoxville
Initially developed in the late nineteenth century as a residential area for Knoxville's growing middle and professional classes, the neighborhood still contains most of its original Victorian-era houses, churches, and streetscapes.The presence of the railroad drew heavy industry to the pasturelands north of the city, and residential areas such as Fourth and Gill were developed to provide housing for the managers and workers in the growing number of mills and factories.The construction of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad just north of Knoxville in 1855 made development in the area more feasible, and by the outbreak of the Civil War, what is now Emory Place had already been annexed by the city.[1] The advent of the automobile in the 1930s led to a migration from urban areas to suburbs on the periphery of the city, and Fourth and Gill began to decline.Unlike other Knoxville neighborhoods that developed during the same period, such as Fort Sanders or Mechanicsville, Fourth and Gill still contains most of its original houses, with few modern intrusions.
U.S. National Register of Historic PlacesU.S. Historic districtKnoxville, TennesseeBaumann BrothersGeorge F. BarberVictorian-eraNational Register of Historic PlacesCivil Warheavy industryU.S. Highway 441Old North KnoxvilleEmory Place Historic DistrictRobert Love TaylorAlbert B. Baumann, Sr.James G. SterchiAlbert ChavannesFort SandersQueen Anne-styleBungalowCraftsmanGothic RevivalMediterranean RevivalTudor RevivalAmerican FoursquareShingleColonial RevivalKnoxville House of FaithCentral United Methodist ChurchR. H. HuntCaswell-Taylor HouseCornstalk HeightsWayback MachineCity of KnoxvilleDowntownEmory PlaceLonsdaleMechanicsvilleOakwood-Lincoln ParkOld CityUniversity of TennesseeEast KnoxvilleChilhowee ParkParkridgeStrawberry PlainsNorth KnoxvilleFountain CityNorth HillsNorwoodPowellSouth KnoxvilleColonial VillageIsland Home ParkLake ForestLindbergh ForestWest KnoxvilleBeardenCedar BluffForest HeightsRocky HillSequoyah HillsTurkey CreekWest HillsAlcoa HighwayJames White ParkwayKingston PikeKnoxville Area TransitMcGhee Tyson AirportPellissippi ParkwayKnox County SchoolsAustin-East HSBearden HSCentral HSFulton HSWest HSTennessee School for the DeafBerean ChristianChristian Academy of KnoxvilleKnoxville Catholic HSWebb SchoolPellissippi State Community CollegeRoman Catholic Diocese of KnoxvilleOld City HallWorld's Fair ParkKnoxville Museum of ArtSunsphereTennessee AmphitheaterTennessee TheatreZoo KnoxvilleKnoxville Christian School