Thomas Hope (architect)
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Thomas Hope was an English-born American architect and house joiner, active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee. Trained in London, Hope moved to Knoxville in 1795 where he designed and built several of
A curule stool, built around 1800 based on a design by Hope, on display in the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia
Charles McClung
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Charles McClung was an American pioneer, politician, and surveyor best known for drawing up the original plat of Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1791. While Knoxville has since expanded to many times its ori
Thomas Hope (architect)
…Trafalgar" for planter John Kain, overlooking the Holston River in Knox County. Around 1806, Hope completed the Federal-style Statesview for surveyor Charles McClung in what is now West Knoxville. In 1812, Hope built a house, later known as "Maison de Sante," for Knoxville physician Joseph C. Strong, which stood at…
Portrait from Rule's Standard History of Knoxville
McClung's grave at Old Gray Cemetery