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.
Susan Martin
Board President
John McCarty
Treasurer
Dean Burress
President Elect
David Hearnes
Executive Director
Rose Steele
Director of Development
Board Members
Brian Pitmann
Dr. Chris Magra
Cole Wheeler
Debby Schriver
Debbie Woodiel
Lindsay George
Miriam B. Beatty
Nicole Leverton
Sam Pittenger
Sara Phillips
Stacy Olfe
Terri Wheeler
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.
