{"version":"1.0","type":"card","id":"60935284-7d31-4a4c-82ac-c1ce9e5db18a","url":"https://stacklist.com/card/60935284-7d31-4a4c-82ac-c1ce9e5db18a","title":"William Blount Mansion","source_url":"https://www.instagram.com/p/DZiheE8ElYI/?img_index=1","note":"I walked by the next two houses last year and took some pictures, and I'm getting around to posting about them now. The Blount Mansion was originally built in 1792 in the federal style. This was in contrast to other houses at the time in Knoxville that were log cabins. So while it may not be a mansion by today's standards, it was back then. The two story portion, as well as the one-story wing on the right were built first. The wing on the left with a separate entrance was added later.\n\nWilliam Blount became governor of the Southwest Territory, the predecessor of Tennessee, in 1790. It is believed that some of Tennessee's state constitution was written here in 1796. Blount died in 1800, and his wife Mary Grainger died in 1802. The house stayed in his family until 1820. Later on Matthew McClung, James White, and some Knoxville mayors lived there.\n\nHowever, in 1925 a developer wanted to tear down the house to be a parking lot for the Andrew Johnson Hotel that was to be build across the street. The local Daughters of the American Revolution thought it deserved better than that so they raised money to purchase it, restore it, and turn it into a museum, which opened in 1926. It is now a National Historic Landmark. This year, the Blount Mansion is celebrating 100 years of being preserved and the beginning of historic preservation in Knoxville.\n\n#downtownknoxville #knoxvilletn #oldhouse #oldhouselove #federalstyle #blountmansion\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/476c0d72-a82c-476f-88b6-bfad9b016384/","alt":"William Blount Mansion","width":2048,"height":1536},"stack":{"id":"b1532a52-094c-40dd-86ab-91b882bab44e","title":"Federal Style","url":"https://stacklist.com/stack/b1532a52-094c-40dd-86ab-91b882bab44e"},"created_at":"2026-06-13T20:27:17.942Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"The Blount Mansion in Knoxville, Tennessee was originally built in 1792 in federal style and served as the residence of Governor William Blount, where parts of Tennessee's state constitution were written in 1796. Saved from demolition in 1925 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, it was converted into a museum in 1926 and is now a National Historic Landmark celebrating 100 years of preservation.","tags":["blount-mansion","historic-preservation","knoxville","federal-style","architecture","national-historic-landmark"],"key_entities":[{"name":"Blount Mansion","type":"location","confidence":0.99},{"name":"Knoxville","type":"location","confidence":0.99},{"name":"Tennessee","type":"location","confidence":0.98},{"name":"William Blount","type":"person","confidence":0.99},{"name":"Mary Grainger","type":"person","confidence":0.95},{"name":"Matthew McClung","type":"person","confidence":0.9},{"name":"James White","type":"person","confidence":0.9},{"name":"Jessalyn Friske","type":"person","confidence":0.98},{"name":"Daughters of the American Revolution","type":"organization","confidence":0.97},{"name":"federal-style architecture","type":"concept","confidence":0.95},{"name":"Southwest Territory","type":"event","confidence":0.85}],"classification":"snippet","language":"en","confidence":0.85,"provenance":{"model":"claude-haiku-4-5","tool":"@stacklist/be@0.1.0","confidence":0.85,"timestamp":"2026-06-13T20:27:24.337Z"},"token_counts":{"approximate":772,"cl100k":731},"content_hash":"sha256:4fbd3f3749343458444bccadd3c6836b5f08836510eada0be7e1a8283fd7b9d5","acp_version":"0.2","body_available":true,"body_tokens":772,"visibility":"public","agent_accessible":true,"status":"final"},"_links":{"self":"/api/public/card/60935284-7d31-4a4c-82ac-c1ce9e5db18a.json","html":"https://stacklist.com/card/60935284-7d31-4a4c-82ac-c1ce9e5db18a","md":"/api/public/card/60935284-7d31-4a4c-82ac-c1ce9e5db18a.md","stack_json":"/api/public/stack/b1532a52-094c-40dd-86ab-91b882bab44e.json"}}