William Blount Mansion
Blount's office, from which he governed and conducted his business affairs, was built along with the house and is a one-story, free-standing building and had a modest front porch.President George Washington appointed North Carolina businessman and land speculator William Blount as the territory's first governor.Blount initially governed from Rocky Mount (in the Tri-Cities area), but began searching for a permanent capital for the territory.Andrew Jackson and John Sevier were frequent visitors to the mansion, and early guests included botanist André Michaux and various Cherokee and Chickasaw chiefs.Sprankle made plans to level the site and demolish the mansion and outbuildings to make room for a parking lot for the Andrew Johnson Hotel.In response, Mary Boyce Temple of the Bonnie Kate Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution purchased an option on the property, and the following year the Blount Mansion Association was chartered.The Association immediately initiated efforts to restore the house to its 18th-century condition, removing the Victorian additions and adding period furniture.[5] Blount Mansion is a frame and clapboard structure consisting of a two-story central block and one-story wings on the east and west ends.The frame was probably built using locally cut timber, but the house's finished woodwork, paneling, flooring and weatherboarding materials were shipped from North Carolina.The office is a one-story frame-and-clapboard structure with a brick chimney on its south side, and a pair of sash windows with louvered blinds along the east and west walls.
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