About Us

Welcome to Blount Mansion

We preserve and promote the unique historic value of the Blount Mansion.

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.

Blount Mansion was the home and capitol of the first and only governor of the Southwest Territory, William Blount, his family, and his slaves. Blount was a signer of the U.S. Constitution and played a pivotal role in Tennessee becoming the sixteenth state.

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Blount Mansion is fortunate to have not one, but two historic homes on its beautiful property in downtown Knoxville: Blount Mansion itself, and the adjacent circa-1818 Craighead-Jackson House, a three-story brick Federalist structure located adjacent to the Mansion.

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Years in existence

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Happy Visitors

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Events held

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