- Chesterfield House, Knoxville, Tennessee
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Chesterfield
Location: North of Mascot off Old Rutledge Pike Nearest city: Knoxville, Tennessee Coordinates: 36°5′37″N 83°45′6″W / 36.09361°N 83.75167°WCoordinates: 36°5′37″N 83°45′6″W / 36.09361°N 83.75167°W Built: 1838 Architect: Arthur Savage Architectural style: Georgian (influence) Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 77001276 Added to NRHP: November 16, 1977 The Chesterfield House is an antebellum house at 9625 Old Rutledge Pike in the Skaggstown community of northeastern Knox County, Tennessee. Built in 1838 by G.W. Arnold, a physician from Roanoke, Virginia, the house is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was located along a stagecoach route (roughly what is now US-11) that began in Washington, D.C., passed through Knoxville, and continued further south. Stagecoaches made stops at Chesterfield.
The mansion is a two-story brick structure with a one story covered front porch. The porch has a balcony above, accessed off a second floor room. Architecturally, the house has Georgian influences. It remains a private residence, and is not open to the public.
References
- Knoxville: Fifty Landmarks. (Knoxville: The Knoxville Heritage Committee of the Junior League of Knoxville, 1976), page 24.
External links
Categories:- Buildings and structures in Knox County, Tennessee
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
- Houses in Tennessee
- Tennessee Registered Historic Place stubs
- Tennessee building and structure stubs
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