Blount Mansion
Our Team
A nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to preserving Blount Mansion National Historic Landmark, and inspiring an appreciation of national, state, and local history through the site and the lives of those who lived and worked there.
David Hearnes
Executive Director
Rose Steele
Director of Development
Susan Martin
Board President
John McCarty
Treasurer
Dean Burress
President Elect
Board Members
Brian Pitmann
Board Member
Dr. Chriss Magra
Board Member
Cole Wheeler
Board Member
Debby Schriver
Board Member
Debbie Woodiel
Board Member
Heather Fawver
Board Member
Miriam B. Beatty
Board Member
Nicole Leverton
Board Member
Sam Pittenger
Board Member
Sara Phillips
Board Member
Stacy Olfe
Board Member
Terri Wheeler
Board Member
Advisory Members
Dean Rice
AdvisorDan Brown
AdvisorDr. Warren Dockter
AdvisorBlount mansion
About
Circa-1792 Blount Mansion was home to U. S. Constitution signer William Blount, appointed by President George Washington to govern the Southwest Territory, which Blount shepherded into admission to the union as our nation’s sixteenth state, Tennessee.
Oldest Museum in Knoxville
In addition to a family home, this fine wood frame dwelling also served as the territorial capital. Blount Mansion is Knoxville, Tennessee’s only National Historic Landmark and the city’s oldest operating museum, opening in 1926.