preservation

Blount Mansion, and the Dawn of Preservation
November 17, 2016

This fall is the 90th anniversary of a watershed moment in historic preservation in Knoxville. In 1925, developers were planning the largest hotel ever built in East Tennessee, prepared in anticipation of the popularity of the Great Smoky Mountains National […]

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The Cal Johnson Building: New Hope for a Neglected Landmark
January 13, 2016

Last month, the Rogero administration made an executive decision about one of the very few decrepit buildings left downtown. The three-story brick building on State Street known as the Cal Johnson Building now has a city-imposed H-1 overlay, a historic-preservation […]

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