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{{short description|Neighborhood of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States}}
{{short description|Neighborhood of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States}}
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[[File:Sequoyah-hills-entrance-tn1.jpg|thumb|Entrance to Sequoyah Hills at intersection of Cherokee Boulevard and Kingston Pike]]
[[File:Sequoyah-hills-entrance-tn1.jpg|thumb|Entrance to Sequoyah Hills at intersection of Cherokee Boulevard and Kingston Pike]]
'''Sequoyah Hills''' is a [[neighborhood]] in [[Knoxville, Tennessee|Knoxville]], [[Tennessee]], United States. It is located off [[Kingston Pike]] between the city's downtown area and West Knoxville. Initially developed in the 1920s, Sequoyah Hills was one of Knoxville's first suburbs, and today is home to some of the city's most affluent residents. The neighborhood contains numerous notable examples of mid-20th century residential architecture, with houses designed by architects such as [[Charles I. Barber]], Benjamin McMurry, and [[Francis Keally]].<ref name=mpcscenic /> Sequoyah Hills is named for the [[Cherokee]] scholar [[Sequoyah]] (c. 1767&ndash;1843), inventor of the [[Cherokee syllabary|Cherokee alphabet]].<ref name=kpsha>[http://www.sequoyahhills.org/information/history/ History of Kingston Pike/Sequoyah Hills]. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref>
'''Sequoyah Hills''' is a [[neighborhood]] in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]], United States, named for the [[Cherokee]] scholar [[Sequoyah]].<ref name=kpsha>[http://www.sequoyahhills.org/information/history/ History of Kingston Pike/Sequoyah Hills]. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref> It is located off [[Kingston Pike]], between the city's [[Downtown Knoxville|downtown]] and [[West Knoxville]]. Initially developed in the 1920s, Sequoyah Hills was one of Knoxville's first suburbs and today is home to some of the city's most affluent residents. The neighborhood contains numerous notable examples of mid-20th century residential architecture, with houses designed by architects such as [[Charles I. Barber]], Benjamin McMurry, and [[Francis Keally]].<ref name=mpcscenic />


Originally an agrarian area known as Looney's Bend, the modern Sequoyah Hills neighborhood is largely rooted in the development efforts of 1920s-era visionary entrepreneurs E. V. Ferrell, who developed the Scenic Drive area, and Robert L. Foust, who established the "Talahi" subdivision in the vicinity of Cherokee Boulevard and Talahi Drive.<ref name=mpcscenic /> Foust and Ferrell advertised their respective developments as utopian getaways where Knoxville's elite could escape from the ills of congested city life.<ref name=nrhp /> While the [[Great Depression]] led to the financial collapse of the Talahi project and Foust's subsequent suicide, Sequoyah Hills nevertheless continued to develop over the years as Foust had envisioned.<ref name=mpcscenic />
Originally an agricultural area called Looney's Bend, the modern Sequoyah Hills neighborhood is largely rooted in the development efforts of 1920s-era visionary entrepreneurs E. V. Ferrell, who developed the Scenic Drive area, and Robert L. Foust, who established the "Talahi" subdivision in the vicinity of Cherokee Boulevard and Talahi Drive.<ref name=mpcscenic /> Foust and Ferrell advertised their respective developments as utopian getaways where Knoxville's elite could escape the ills of congested city life.<ref name=nrhp /> While the [[Great Depression]] led to the financial collapse of the Talahi project and Foust's subsequent suicide, Sequoyah Hills nevertheless continued to develop over the years as Foust had envisioned.<ref name=mpcscenic />


Cherokee Boulevard was home to Knoxville's first [[Dogwood Arts Festival|Dogwood Arts Trail]], which was established in 1955.<ref>[http://www.dogwoodarts.com/sequoyah_hills.html Dogwood Arts Trails - Sequoyah Hills] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416061044/http://www.dogwoodarts.com/sequoyah_hills.html |date=2009-04-16 }}. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref> In 1979, the '''Talahi Improvements''', which consist of several early landscape elements from Foust's Talahi development, were listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name=nrhp />
Cherokee Boulevard was home to Knoxville's first [[Dogwood Arts Festival|Dogwood Arts Trail]], which was established in 1955.<ref>[http://www.dogwoodarts.com/sequoyah_hills.html Dogwood Arts Trails - Sequoyah Hills] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416061044/http://www.dogwoodarts.com/sequoyah_hills.html |date=2009-04-16 }}. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref> In 1979, the '''Talahi Improvements''', which consist of several early landscape elements from Foust's Talahi development, were listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name=nrhp />


==Location==
==Location==
Sequoyah Hills is located on a [[peninsula]] created by a bend of the [[Tennessee River]] known as Looney's Bend. The neighborhood is bounded by the river on the east, south, and west, and by [[Kingston Pike]] ([[U.S. Route 70 (Tennessee)|US-70]]/[[U.S. Route 11 in Tennessee|US-11]]) on the north, though the Kingston Pike/Sequoyah Hills Neighborhood Association includes several streets just north of Kingston Pike. The area is generally hilly, with a 10 to 15-foot bluff rising above the rivershore along most of the neighborhood's southern edge. From the edge of the bluff, the land gradually slopes upward, reaching approximately {{convert|40|ft|m}} above the river, affording houses along the upper slopes sweeping views of the river and Knoxville in the distance.
Sequoyah Hills is located on a [[peninsula]] created by a bend of the [[Tennessee River]] known as Looney's Bend. The neighborhood is bounded by the river on the east, south, and west, and by [[Kingston Pike]] ([[U.S. Route 70|US-70]]/[[U.S. Route 11 in Tennessee|US-11]]) on the north, though the Kingston Pike/Sequoyah Hills Neighborhood Association includes several streets just north of Kingston Pike. The area is generally hilly, with a 10 to 15-foot bluff rising above the rivershore along most of the neighborhood's southern edge. From the edge of the bluff, the land gradually slopes upward, reaching approximately {{convert|40|ft|m}} above the river, affording houses along the upper slopes sweeping views of the river and Knoxville in the distance.


Sequoyah Park, which occupies most of the south side of the neighborhood, lies in the floodplain between the rivershore and base of the bluff. Cherokee Boulevard, a [[boulevard|true boulevard]] with a grassy median dividing the right and left lanes, runs in a U-shape around the edge of the peninsula. The other main road, Scenic Drive/Southgate Road, runs roughly north-to-south across the center of the peninsula. A small commercial center, known as Council Point,<ref name=mpcscenic /> is concentrated around the intersection of Kenesaw and Keowee avenues.
Sequoyah Park, which occupies most of the south side of the neighborhood, lies in the floodplain between the rivershore and base of the bluff. Cherokee Boulevard, a [[boulevard]] with a grassy median dividing the right and left lanes, runs in a U-shape around the edge of the peninsula. The other main road, Scenic Drive/Southgate Road, runs roughly north-to-south across the center of the peninsula. A small commercial center, known as Council Point,<ref name=mpcscenic /> is concentrated around the intersection of Kenesaw and Keowee avenues.


==History==
==History==
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===Early history===
===Early history===
[[File:Cherokee-boulevard-mound-tn1.jpg|right|210px|thumb|[[Woodland period|Late Woodland]] burial mound along Cherokee Boulevard]]
[[File:Cherokee-boulevard-mound-tn1.jpg|right|210px|thumb|[[Woodland period|Late Woodland]] burial mound along Cherokee Boulevard]]
What is now Sequoyah Hills was inhabited by [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] as early as the [[Woodland period|Late Woodland period]] (c. 500&ndash;1100 A.D.), as indicated by a 1,000-year-old Indian mound that rises in the median of Cherokee Boulevard.<ref name=mpcwest>Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, [http://archive.knoxmpc.org/plans/westcity/backhist.htm West Sector Plan - Historical Development and Historical Resources], 9 August 2007. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref> By the 18th century, the area was under control of the Cherokee, whose [[Overhill Cherokee|Overhill towns]] lay along the [[Little Tennessee River]] to the southwest. The neighborhood's eponym, Sequoyah, was born in the Overhill town of [[Tuskegee (Cherokee town)|Tuskegee]] around 1767.<ref>Gerald Schroedl, [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1026 Overhill Cherokees]. ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2002. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref>
What is now Sequoyah Hills was inhabited by [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] as early as the [[Woodland period|Late Woodland period]] (c. 500&ndash;1100 A.D.), as indicated by a 1,000-year-old [[Mound Builders|Indian mound]] that rises in the median of Cherokee Boulevard.<ref name=mpcwest>Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, [http://archive.knoxmpc.org/plans/westcity/backhist.htm West Sector Plan - Historical Development and Historical Resources], 9 August 2007. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref> By the 18th century, the area was under control of the [[Cherokee]], whose [[Overhill Cherokee|Overhill towns]] lay along the [[Little Tennessee River]] to the southwest. The neighborhood's namesake, [[Sequoyah]], was born in the Overhill town of [[Tuskegee (Cherokee town)|Tuskegee]] around 1767.<ref>Gerald Schroedl, [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1026 Overhill Cherokees]. ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2002. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref>


In 1796, Moses Looney (1750&ndash;1817), who had served in various capacities with the failed [[State of Franklin]] during the 1780s,<ref>[[J. G. M. Ramsey|J.G.M. Ramsey]], ''Annals of Tennessee'' (Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press, 1999), pp. 288, 292.</ref> acquired a {{convert|700|acre|ha|sing=on}} tract of land in what is now Sequoyah Hills.<ref name=mpcscenic /> He and his descendants would remain on this land for several decades, and the area became known as "Looney's Bend." Other early landowners in the Sequoyah Hills area included future Knoxville mayor James Park, who purchased a {{convert|200|acre|ha|sing=on}} tract in 1804, William Lyon, who built a house and mill near the modern intersection of Lyon's View Pike and Northshore Drive around 1810, and Drury Armstrong (builder of [[Crescent Bend]]), who acquired a large tract of land west of modern Scenic Drive in 1846.<ref name=mpcscenic />
In 1796, Moses Looney, who had served in various capacities with the failed [[State of Franklin]] during the 1780s,<ref>[[J. G. M. Ramsey|J.G.M. Ramsey]], ''Annals of Tennessee'' (Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press, 1999), pp. 288, 292.</ref> acquired a {{convert|700|acre|ha|adj=on}} tract of land in what is now Sequoyah Hills.<ref name=mpcscenic /> He and his descendants remained on the land for several decades, and the area became known as "Looney's Bend." Other early landowners in the Sequoyah Hills area included future Knoxville mayor James Park, who purchased a {{convert|200|acre|ha|adj=on}} tract in 1804; William Lyon, who built a house and mill near the modern intersection of Lyon's View Pike and Northshore Drive around 1810; and Drury Armstrong (builder of [[Crescent Bend]]), who acquired a large tract of land west of modern Scenic Drive in 1846.<ref name=mpcscenic />


The oldest house in Sequoyah Hills, which currently stands at 715 Scenic Drive, was originally built in the 1850s as a tenant house on the farm of Allen Johnson (1808&ndash;1898).<ref name=mpcscenic /> Around 1814, George White, a son-in-law of James Park and a grandson of Knoxville founder [[James White (General)|James White]], built a house along what is now Woodhill Drive. While this house is no longer standing, the remnants of a barn that accompanied the house can be seen on along Scenic Drive.<ref name=mpcscenic />
The oldest house still extant in Sequoyah Hills, which currently stands at 715 Scenic Drive, was originally built in the 1850s as a tenant house on the farm of Allen Johnson.<ref name=mpcscenic /> Around 1814 George White, son-in-law of James Park and grandson of Knoxville founder [[James White (general)|James White]], built a house along what is now Woodhill Place. While this house is no longer standing, foundation remnants of a barn that accompanied the house can be seen along Scenic Drive.<ref name=mpcscenic />


===Early development===
===Early development===
[[File:Old-cherokee-country-club-tn1.jpg|220px|right|thumb|The "old" Cherokee Country Club, circa 1910]]
[[File:Old-cherokee-country-club-tn1.jpg|220px|right|thumb|The "old" Cherokee Country Club, circa 1910]]
In 1890, Francis Huger, superintendent of the [[East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway]], acquired over {{convert|450|acre|ha}} in Sequoyah Hills with the intent of moving a steel mill to the area. The [[Panic of 1893]] doomed this venture, however, and the land was distributed to Huger's creditors in 1908.<ref name=mpcscenic /> Knox County road commissioner Peter Blow (1854&ndash;1945) built a house on the south bank of the river opposite Sequoyah Hills in 1910, where he operated a [[ferry]]. Blow's Ferry Road, which connected the ferry to Kingston Pike, is believed to have been built along a trail that once accessed a cemetery containing the graves of Civil War soldiers and slaves.<ref name=mpcscenic />
In 1890 Francis Huger, superintendent of the [[East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway]], acquired over {{convert|450|acre|ha}} in Sequoyah Hills with the intent of moving a steel mill to the area. The [[Panic of 1893]] doomed this venture, however, and the land was distributed to Huger's creditors in 1908.<ref name=mpcscenic /> Knox County road commissioner Peter Blow built a house on the south bank of the river opposite Sequoyah Hills in 1910, where he operated a [[ferry]]. Blow's Ferry Road, which connected the ferry to Kingston Pike, is believed to have been built along a trail that once accessed a cemetery containing the graves of Civil War soldiers and slaves.<ref name=mpcscenic />


In 1907, several Knoxville businessmen established the Cherokee Country Club on Lyon's View Pike, and erected a clubhouse on a hill with a commanding view of the river valley and the [[Great Smoky Mountains]] beyond. This original clubhouse was eventually demolished, and replaced with the current building, designed by the noted Knoxville architectural firm [[Baumann family (architects)|Baumann and Baumann]], in 1928.<ref name=kpsha /> In 1913, trolley tracks were extended along Kingston Pike to its Lyon's View Pike junction, aiding in the development of the area.<ref name=mpcwest /> What is now Sequoyah Hills was annexed by Knoxville in 1917.<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, Lucile Deaderick (ed.), ''Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976), p. 171.</ref>
In 1907, several Knoxville businessmen established the Cherokee Country Club on Lyon's View Pike and erected a clubhouse on a hill with a commanding view of the river valley and the [[Great Smoky Mountains]] beyond. The original clubhouse was eventually demolished and replaced with the current building, designed by the noted Knoxville architectural firm [[Baumann family (architects)|Baumann and Baumann]], in 1928.<ref name=kpsha /> In 1913, trolley tracks were extended along Kingston Pike to its Lyon's View Pike junction, aiding in the development of the area.<ref name=mpcwest /> What is now Sequoyah Hills was annexed by Knoxville in 1917.<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, Lucile Deaderick (ed.), ''Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976), p. 171.</ref>


With the advent of the automobile, affluent Knoxvillians began fleeing the congested urban neighborhoods for more spacious areas on the city's periphery. By 1920, several elegant residences, such as the H.L. Dulin House (1915) on Kingston Pike and the C. Powell Smith (1913) and E.C. Mahan (1920) residences on Lyon's View Pike, had been built near Sequoyah Hills.<ref name=mpcscenic /> In 1921, Regal Manufacturing president S. D. Coykendall commissioned noted Knoxville architectural firm Barber & McMurry to build a house on what is now Scenic Drive.<ref name=mpcscenic />
With the advent of the automobile, affluent Knoxvillians began fleeing the congested urban neighborhoods for more spacious areas on the city's periphery. By 1920, several elegant residences, such as the H.L. Dulin House (1915) on Kingston Pike and the C. Powell Smith (1913) and E.C. Mahan (1920) residences on Lyon's View Pike, had been built near Sequoyah Hills.<ref name=mpcscenic /> In 1921, Regal Manufacturing president S. D. Coykendall commissioned noted Knoxville architectural firm Barber & McMurry to build a house on what is now Scenic Drive.<ref name=mpcscenic />


===Talahi and Sequoyah Hills===
===Talahi and Sequoyah Hills===


In the mid-1920s, E. V. Ferrell began major residential development in Sequoyah Hills. To connect his holdings along the peninsula, he built Cherokee Boulevard (named for the Indian mound in the road's median),<ref name=kpsha /><ref name=nrhp /> and improved Scenic Drive as far as its modern intersection with Bluff and Southgate (a gate at this point inspired the name of the latter).<ref name=mpcscenic /> Ferrell chose the name "Sequoyah Hills" to match the name of Cherokee Boulevard.<ref name=nrhp /> By 1924, houses had been built at 901, 919, 927 and 937 Scenic Drive,<ref name=mpcscenic /> and fifty lots had been sold by the end of the decade.<ref name=nrhp />
In the mid-1920s, E. V. Ferrell began major residential development in Sequoyah Hills. To connect his holdings along the peninsula, he built Cherokee Boulevard (named for the Indian mound in the road's median)<ref name=kpsha /><ref name=nrhp /> and improved Scenic Drive as far as its modern intersection with Bluff and Southgate (a gate at this point inspired the name of the latter).<ref name=mpcscenic /> Ferrell chose the name "Sequoyah Hills" to match the name of Cherokee Boulevard.<ref name=nrhp /> By 1924, houses had been built at 901, 919, 927 and 937 Scenic Drive,<ref name=mpcscenic /> and 50 lots had been sold by the end of the decade.<ref name=nrhp />


[[File:Scenic-drive-sequoyah-hills-tn4.jpg|right|230px|thumb|[[Prairie School|Prairie-style]] house along Scenic Drive, built in 1924]]
[[File:Scenic-drive-sequoyah-hills-tn4.jpg|right|230px|thumb|[[Prairie School|Prairie-style]] house along Scenic Drive, built in 1924]]


In 1926, Robert Foust, a partner in the real estate firm Alex McMillan Company, purchased a {{convert|100|acre|ha|sing=on}} tract of land on the southeast section of Looney's Bend with plans to develop a premier subdivision for Knoxville.<ref name=nrhp /> Foust envisioned a neighborhood for those "who insist upon and can afford the best," and where "all the ugliness of city life has been shut out."<ref name=nrhp /> He named the new subdivision "Talahi," Cherokee for "standing oak forest."<ref name=kpsha /> The new neighborhood, Foust believed, would bring together "an Indian past, a technical future, and a natural forest setting."<ref name=nrhp />
In 1926 Robert Foust, a partner in the real estate firm Alex McMillan Company, purchased a {{convert|100|acre|ha|adj=on}} tract of land on the southeast section of Looney's Bend with plans to develop a premier subdivision for Knoxville.<ref name=nrhp /> Foust envisioned a neighborhood for those "who insist upon and can afford the best," and where "all the ugliness of city life has been shut out."<ref name=nrhp /> He named the new subdivision "Talahi," Cherokee for "standing oak forest."<ref name=kpsha /> The new neighborhood, Foust believed, would bring together "an Indian past, a technical future, and a natural forest setting."<ref name=nrhp />


Foust recruited landscape engineer Earle S. Draper to oversee Talahi's complex landscape designs. The plans called for curvilinear streets, preservation of mature trees wherever possible, and underground utilities.<ref name=nrhp /> Lot sizes were to be no less than 5,000 square feet, and were restricted to single-family homes.<ref name=nrhp /> Foust's restrictions called for all houses to be built in English Cottage or American Colonial Revival styles (this restriction was abandoned by subsequent developers).<ref name=nrhp /> A country club was to be built along the river bank.<ref name=nrhp />
Foust recruited landscape designer Earle S. Draper to oversee Talahi's complex landscape designs. The plans called for curvilinear streets, preservation of mature trees wherever possible, and underground utilities.<ref name=nrhp /> Lot sizes were to be no less than 5,000 square feet and were restricted to single-family homes.<ref name=nrhp /> Foust's restrictions called for all houses to be built in English Cottage or American [[Colonial Revival architecture|Colonial Revival]] styles (this restriction was abandoned by subsequent developers).<ref name=nrhp /> A country club was to be built along the river bank.<ref name=nrhp />


Between 1927 and 1929, Foust constructed several landscape features, including entrance pylons, fountains, and a park (Papoose Park). Talahi was opened to sales in the Spring of 1929.<ref name=nrhp /> Unfortunately, only one lot&mdash; 940 Cherokee Boulevard&mdash; was sold before the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929|stock market crashed later that year]]. In the early 1930s, lots in Talahi, originally marketed in the $4,000 to $10,000 range, were selling for just $600.<ref name=nrhp /> His finances in ruins, Foust committed suicide in September 1933.<ref name=nrhp />
Between 1927 and 1929, Foust constructed several landscape features, including entrance pylons, fountains, and a park (Papoose Park). Talahi was opened to sales in the spring of 1929.<ref name=nrhp /> Only one lot&mdash;940 Cherokee Boulevard&mdash;was sold before the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929|stock market crashed later that year]]. In the early 1930s, lots in Talahi, originally marketed in the $4,000 to $10,000 range, were selling for just $600.<ref name=nrhp /> His finances in ruins, Foust committed suicide in September 1933.<ref name=nrhp />


==Notable buildings and structures==
==Notable buildings and structures==
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[[File:Talahi-pillar-detail-tn1.jpg|upright|thumb|left|Gatepost along Cherokee Boulevard]]
[[File:Talahi-pillar-detail-tn1.jpg|upright|thumb|left|Gatepost along Cherokee Boulevard]]


Before the stock market crash ruined his development efforts in 1929, Foust managed to complete several landscape improvements in the proposed Talahi subdivision. These include gateposts at either end of the subdivision along Cherokee Boulevard, two fountains, a park, streetlight standards, and stone benches. The roads were originally paved in concrete, which has been preserved along parts of Talahi Drive, Iskagna Drive, and Taliluna Avenue.<ref name=nrhp />
Before the stock market crash ruined his development efforts in 1929, Foust managed to complete several landscape improvements in the proposed Talahi subdivision. These include gateposts at either end of the subdivision along Cherokee Boulevard, two fountains, a park, streetlight standards, and stone benches. The roads were originally paved in concrete, which has been preserved along parts of Talahi Drive, Iskagna Drive, and Taliluna Avenue.<ref name=nrhp />


The Talahi Improvements are concentrated primarily between the intersections of Talahi Drive and Cherokee Boulevard and Talahi Drive and Taliluna Avenue, with islands in both intersections containing the two fountains, called "Sunhouse Fountain" and "Panther Fountain," respectively. Papoose Park, which is surrounded by an iron fence, is situated in the median along Talahi Drive between the two intersections. Stone walls with inset benches form a broken circle around the Cherokee Boulevard/Talahi Drive intersection, with the north walls opening toward Papoose Park, and the south walls opening toward the lake, where the proposed country club was to have been built.<ref name=nrhp />
The Talahi Improvements are concentrated primarily between the intersections of Talahi Drive and Cherokee Boulevard and Talahi Drive and Taliluna Avenue, with islands in both intersections containing the two fountains, called "Sunhouse Fountain" and "Panther Fountain," respectively. Papoose Park, which is surrounded by an iron fence, is situated in the median along Talahi Drive between the two intersections. Stone walls with inset benches form a broken circle around the Cherokee Boulevard/Talahi Drive intersection, with the north walls opening toward Papoose Park, and the south walls opening toward the lake, where the proposed country club was to be built.<ref name=nrhp />


Sunhouse Fountain is a circular stone fountain with twelve small posts, each decorated with a sunburst motif, and each originally surmounted by a bronze frog (the frogs have since been removed).<ref name=nrhp /> Panther Fountain is a circular fountain with a central obelisk resting atop a base of varying geometric shapes. Water was discharged through panther heads on each of the four sides of the base. Cherokee motifs decorate the gateposts, pylons, and fountains, suggesting inspiration from both Cherokee folklore and the [[Art Deco]] movement's emphasis on abstract figures.<ref name=nrhp />
Sunhouse Fountain is a circular stone fountain with twelve small posts, each decorated with a sunburst motif, and each originally surmounted by a bronze frog (the frogs have since been removed).<ref name=nrhp /> Panther Fountain is a circular fountain with a central obelisk resting atop a base of varying geometric shapes. Water was discharged through panther heads on each of the four sides of the base. Cherokee motifs decorate the gateposts, pylons, and fountains, suggesting inspiration from both Cherokee folklore and the [[Art Deco]] movement's emphasis on abstract figures.<ref name=nrhp />


===Houses===
===Houses===


*The '''Jenkins House''' on Cherokee Boulevard, built in 1955 and designed by noted Knoxville architect Ben McMurry, Jr., of the firm [[BarberMcMurry|Barber & McMurry]]. In 2008, the magazine ''[[Oxford American]]'' profiled this house in its list of the best modern homes of the southeast.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120310124643/http://www.metropulse.com/news/2008/may/21/golden-chutes/ Golden 'Chutes]. ''Metro Pulse'', 21 May 2008. Accessed at the Internet Archive, 5 October 2015.</ref>
*The '''Jenkins House''' on Cherokee Boulevard, built in 1955 and designed by noted Knoxville architect Ben McMurry, Jr., of the firm [[BarberMcMurry|Barber & McMurry]]. In 2008, the magazine ''[[Oxford American]]'' profiled this house in its list of the best modern homes of the southeast.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120310124643/http://www.metropulse.com/news/2008/may/21/golden-chutes/ Golden 'Chutes]. ''Metro Pulse'', 21 May 2008. Accessed at the Internet Archive, 5 October 2015.</ref>


[[File:Cherokee-boulevard-house-tn3.jpg|right|210px|thumb|UT president's house at 940 Cherokee Boulevard]]
[[File:Cherokee-boulevard-house-tn3.jpg|right|210px|thumb|UT president's house at 940 Cherokee Boulevard]]


*'''University of Tennessee president's house''' (940 Cherokee Boulevard), a Georgian Revival-style house built by Nashville surgeon Walter S. Nash in the 1930s after the Nash family home in downtown Knoxville was demolished for the construction of the [[United States Post Office and Courthouse (Knoxville, Tennessee)|Knoxville Post Office]]. Nash purchased the sole lot in Talahi before the company collapsed into financial ruin. The [[University of Tennessee]] purchased the house in 1960 from Nash's son-in-law and daughter, [[Ray Jenkins]] and Eva Nash Jenkins, and used it as its presidential mansion until 2009.<ref>Chloe White Kennedy, "[http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/apr/28/ut-plans-sell-presidents-house-cherokee-boulevard/ UT Needs Appraisal to Sell President's House on Cherokee Boulevard]," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 28 April 2009. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref>
* '''University of Tennessee president's house''' (940 Cherokee Boulevard), a [[Georgian architecture|Georgian Revival]]-style house built by Nashville surgeon Walter S. Nash in the 1930s after the Nash family home in downtown Knoxville was demolished for the construction of the [[United States Post Office and Courthouse (Knoxville, Tennessee)|Knoxville Post Office]]. Nash purchased the sole lot in Talahi before Foust's company collapsed into financial ruin. The [[University of Tennessee]] purchased the house in 1960 from Nash's son-in-law and daughter, [[Ray Jenkins]] and Eva Nash Jenkins, and used it as its presidential mansion until 2009.<ref>Chloe White Kennedy, "[http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/apr/28/ut-plans-sell-presidents-house-cherokee-boulevard/ UT Needs Appraisal to Sell President's House on Cherokee Boulevard]," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 28 April 2009. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref>

*'''Thomas House''' (715 Scenic Drive), the oldest extant house in Sequoyah Hills, originally built in the 1850s as a tenant house on the farm of Allen Johnson. The Towle family purchased the farm in 1899, and in turn sold it to developer N.E. Logan in 1923.<ref name=mpcscenic />
*'''Thomas House''' (715 Scenic Drive), the oldest extant house in Sequoyah Hills, originally built in the 1850s as a tenant house on the farm of Allen Johnson. The Towle family purchased the farm in 1899 and in turn sold it to developer N.E. Logan in 1923.<ref name="mpcscenic" />
*'''726 Scenic Drive''', a one-story Minimal Traditional-style Gunnison home built in 1948. [[Foster Gunnison Jr.|Gunnison]] homes were a type of [[prefabricated home|prefabricated house]] popular in the years following [[World War II]].<ref name=mpcscenic />
*'''934 Scenic Drive''', a 2.5-story [[Tudor Revival architecture|Tudor Revival-style]] house built in 1928, and designed by landscape architect Elizabeth Dunlap.<ref name=mpcscenic />
*'''726 Scenic Drive''', a one-story [[Minimal Traditional]]-style Gunnison home built in 1948. [[Foster Gunnison Jr.|Gunnison]] homes were a type of [[prefabricated home|prefabricated house]] popular in the years following [[World War II]].<ref name="mpcscenic" />
*'''937 Scenic Drive''', a two-story [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical-style]] house built in 1924, and designed by the architectural firm Barber & McMurry.<ref name=mpcscenic />
*'''934 Scenic Drive''', a 2.5-story [[Tudor Revival architecture|Tudor Revival-style]] house built in 1928, designed by landscape architect Elizabeth Dunlap.<ref name="mpcscenic" />
*'''1029 Scenic Drive''', a two-story Neoclassical-style house built in 1930, and designed by the architectural firm Barber & McMurry.<ref name=mpcscenic />
*'''937 Scenic Drive''', a two-story [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical-style]] house built in 1924, designed by the architectural firm Barber & McMurry.<ref name="mpcscenic" />
*'''Lockett House''' (1065 Scenic Drive), a two-story Neoclassical style house built in 1931, and designed by the architectural firm [[Baumann family (architects)|Baumann and Baumann]]. The property includes an old log cabin moved from [[Jefferson County, Tennessee|Jefferson County]].<ref name=mpcscenic />
*'''1029 Scenic Drive''', a two-story Neoclassical-style house built in 1930, designed Barber & McMurry.<ref name="mpcscenic" />
*'''Lockett House''' (1065 Scenic Drive), a two-story Neoclassical-style house built in 1931, designed by the architectural firm [[Baumann family (architects)|Baumann and Baumann]]. The property includes an old log cabin moved from [[Jefferson County, Tennessee|Jefferson County]].<ref name="mpcscenic" />
*'''1079 Scenic Drive''', a two-story [[art moderne]] house built in 1935, and designed by landscape architect Elizabeth Dunlap.<ref name=mpcscenic />
*'''1079 Scenic Drive''', a two-story [[art moderne]] house built in 1935, designed by Dunlap.<ref name="mpcscenic" />
*'''1119 Scenic Drive''', a 1.5-story Tudor Revival-style house built in 1940 for Dr. Clifford E. Barbour, designed by architect [[Francis Keally]] and landscape architect Arthur F. Brinkerhoff.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Clifford E. Barbour Offers Showplace Home for Sale |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/594109136/?terms=francis%20keally%20iran%20embassy&match=1 |access-date=25 March 2021 |publisher=Knoxville News-Sentinel, Knoxville, Tennessee |date=16 July 1951}}</ref><ref name=mpcscenic>Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, [http://archive.knoxmpc.org/plans/dguides/ScenicDr2006.pdf Scenic Drive Area of Sequoyah Hills Neighborhood - Designation Report and Design Guidelines], September 2006. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref>
*'''1119 Scenic Drive''', a 1.5-story Tudor Revival-style house built in 1940 for Dr. Clifford E. Barbour, designed by architect [[Francis Keally]] and landscape architect Arthur F. Brinkerhoff.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Clifford E. Barbour Offers Showplace Home for Sale |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/594109136/?terms=francis%20keally%20iran%20embassy&match=1 |access-date=25 March 2021 |publisher=Knoxville News-Sentinel, Knoxville, Tennessee |date=16 July 1951}}</ref><ref name="mpcscenic">Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, [http://archive.knoxmpc.org/plans/dguides/ScenicDr2006.pdf Scenic Drive Area of Sequoyah Hills Neighborhood - Designation Report and Design Guidelines], September 2006. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref>


===Other buildings===
===Other buildings===
[[File:Sequoyah-school-tn1.jpg|right|210px|thumb|Sequoyah Elementary School]]
[[File:Sequoyah-school-tn1.jpg|right|210px|thumb|Sequoyah Elementary School]]


*'''Sequoyah Elementary School''', the original part of which (facing Sagwa Drive) was built in 1929, and designed by the architectural firm Barber McMurry.<ref>Katherine Wheeler, [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=54 Barber & McMurry Architects]. ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2002. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref>
*'''Sequoyah Elementary School''', the original part of which (facing Sagwa Drive) was built in 1929, designed by the architectural firm Barber McMurry.<ref>Katherine Wheeler, [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=54 Barber & McMurry Architects]. ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2002. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref>
*'''Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church''', founded in 1947; the current church building was completed in 1954.<ref>[http://sequoyahchurch.org/modules/main/content.php?id=20 Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church - Church History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101109192041/http://sequoyahchurch.org/modules/main/content.php?id=20 |date=2010-11-09 }}. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref>
*'''Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church''', founded in 1947; the current church building was completed in 1954.<ref>[http://sequoyahchurch.org/modules/main/content.php?id=20 Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church - Church History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101109192041/http://sequoyahchurch.org/modules/main/content.php?id=20 |date=2010-11-09 }}. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.</ref>


==Notable residents==
==Notable residents==


Notable residents of Sequoyah Hills have included [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Howard Baker|Howard H. Baker, Jr.]], businessman [[Jim Clayton (Clayton Homes)|Jim Clayton]] (owner of [[Clayton Homes]]), author [[Alex Haley]], members of the [[James Haslam Jr.|Haslam family]] including Gov. [[Bill Haslam]],<ref name=mpcscenic /> author [[Cormac McCarthy]], actress [[Patricia Neal]], Tennessee Volunteers football coach [[Robert Neyland|Robert R. Neyland]], actor [[David Keith]], Knoxville mayors [[George Roby Dempster]] and Benjamin Morton, and photographer James Edward Thompson.<ref name=mpcscenic />
Notable residents of Sequoyah Hills have included [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Howard Baker|Howard H. Baker, Jr.]], businessman [[Jim Clayton (Clayton Homes)|Jim Clayton]] (owner of [[Clayton Homes]]), author [[Alex Haley]], members of the [[James Haslam Jr.|Haslam family]] including Governor [[Bill Haslam]],<ref name=mpcscenic /> author [[Cormac McCarthy]], actress [[Patricia Neal]], Tennessee Volunteers football coach [[Robert Neyland|Robert R. Neyland]], actor [[David L. Keith|David Keith]], Knoxville mayors [[George Roby Dempster]] and Benjamin Morton, and photographer James Edward Thompson.<ref name=mpcscenic />


==References==
==References==

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Entrance to Sequoyah Hills at intersection of Cherokee Boulevard and Kingston Pike

Sequoyah Hills is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, named for the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah.[1] It is located off Kingston Pike, between the city's downtown and West Knoxville. Initially developed in the 1920s, Sequoyah Hills was one of Knoxville's first suburbs and today is home to some of the city's most affluent residents. The neighborhood contains numerous notable examples of mid-20th century residential architecture, with houses designed by architects such as Charles I. Barber, Benjamin McMurry, and Francis Keally.[2]

Originally an agricultural area called Looney's Bend, the modern Sequoyah Hills neighborhood is largely rooted in the development efforts of 1920s-era visionary entrepreneurs E. V. Ferrell, who developed the Scenic Drive area, and Robert L. Foust, who established the "Talahi" subdivision in the vicinity of Cherokee Boulevard and Talahi Drive.[2] Foust and Ferrell advertised their respective developments as utopian getaways where Knoxville's elite could escape the ills of congested city life.[3] While the Great Depression led to the financial collapse of the Talahi project and Foust's subsequent suicide, Sequoyah Hills nevertheless continued to develop over the years as Foust had envisioned.[2]

Cherokee Boulevard was home to Knoxville's first Dogwood Arts Trail, which was established in 1955.[4] In 1979, the Talahi Improvements, which consist of several early landscape elements from Foust's Talahi development, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[3]

Standort

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Sequoyah Hills is located on a peninsula created by a bend of the Tennessee River known as Looney's Bend. The neighborhood is bounded by the river on the east, south, and west, and by Kingston Pike (US-70/US-11) on the north, though the Kingston Pike/Sequoyah Hills Neighborhood Association includes several streets just north of Kingston Pike. The area is generally hilly, with a 10 to 15-foot bluff rising above the rivershore along most of the neighborhood's southern edge. From the edge of the bluff, the land gradually slopes upward, reaching approximately 40 feet (12 m) above the river, affording houses along the upper slopes sweeping views of the river and Knoxville in the distance.

Sequoyah Park, which occupies most of the south side of the neighborhood, lies in the floodplain between the rivershore and base of the bluff. Cherokee Boulevard, a boulevard with a grassy median dividing the right and left lanes, runs in a U-shape around the edge of the peninsula. The other main road, Scenic Drive/Southgate Road, runs roughly north-to-south across the center of the peninsula. A small commercial center, known as Council Point,[2] is concentrated around the intersection of Kenesaw and Keowee avenues.

History

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Early history

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Late Woodland burial mound along Cherokee Boulevard

What is now Sequoyah Hills was inhabited by Native Americans as early as the Late Woodland period (c. 500–1100 A.D.), as indicated by a 1,000-year-old Indian mound that rises in the median of Cherokee Boulevard.[5] By the 18th century, the area was under control of the Cherokee, whose Overhill towns lay along the Little Tennessee River to the southwest. The neighborhood's namesake, Sequoyah, was born in the Overhill town of Tuskegee around 1767.[6]

In 1796, Moses Looney, who had served in various capacities with the failed State of Franklin during the 1780s,[7] acquired a 700-acre (280 ha) tract of land in what is now Sequoyah Hills.[2] He and his descendants remained on the land for several decades, and the area became known as "Looney's Bend." Other early landowners in the Sequoyah Hills area included future Knoxville mayor James Park, who purchased a 200-acre (81 ha) tract in 1804; William Lyon, who built a house and mill near the modern intersection of Lyon's View Pike and Northshore Drive around 1810; and Drury Armstrong (builder of Crescent Bend), who acquired a large tract of land west of modern Scenic Drive in 1846.[2]

The oldest house still extant in Sequoyah Hills, which currently stands at 715 Scenic Drive, was originally built in the 1850s as a tenant house on the farm of Allen Johnson.[2] Around 1814 George White, son-in-law of James Park and grandson of Knoxville founder James White, built a house along what is now Woodhill Place. While this house is no longer standing, foundation remnants of a barn that accompanied the house can be seen along Scenic Drive.[2]

Early development

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The "old" Cherokee Country Club, circa 1910

In 1890 Francis Huger, superintendent of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway, acquired over 450 acres (180 ha) in Sequoyah Hills with the intent of moving a steel mill to the area. The Panic of 1893 doomed this venture, however, and the land was distributed to Huger's creditors in 1908.[2] Knox County road commissioner Peter Blow built a house on the south bank of the river opposite Sequoyah Hills in 1910, where he operated a ferry. Blow's Ferry Road, which connected the ferry to Kingston Pike, is believed to have been built along a trail that once accessed a cemetery containing the graves of Civil War soldiers and slaves.[2]

In 1907, several Knoxville businessmen established the Cherokee Country Club on Lyon's View Pike and erected a clubhouse on a hill with a commanding view of the river valley and the Great Smoky Mountains beyond. The original clubhouse was eventually demolished and replaced with the current building, designed by the noted Knoxville architectural firm Baumann and Baumann, in 1928.[1] In 1913, trolley tracks were extended along Kingston Pike to its Lyon's View Pike junction, aiding in the development of the area.[5] What is now Sequoyah Hills was annexed by Knoxville in 1917.[8]

With the advent of the automobile, affluent Knoxvillians began fleeing the congested urban neighborhoods for more spacious areas on the city's periphery. By 1920, several elegant residences, such as the H.L. Dulin House (1915) on Kingston Pike and the C. Powell Smith (1913) and E.C. Mahan (1920) residences on Lyon's View Pike, had been built near Sequoyah Hills.[2] In 1921, Regal Manufacturing president S. D. Coykendall commissioned noted Knoxville architectural firm Barber & McMurry to build a house on what is now Scenic Drive.[2]

Talahi and Sequoyah Hills

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In the mid-1920s, E. V. Ferrell began major residential development in Sequoyah Hills. To connect his holdings along the peninsula, he built Cherokee Boulevard (named for the Indian mound in the road's median)[1][3] and improved Scenic Drive as far as its modern intersection with Bluff and Southgate (a gate at this point inspired the name of the latter).[2] Ferrell chose the name "Sequoyah Hills" to match the name of Cherokee Boulevard.[3] By 1924, houses had been built at 901, 919, 927 and 937 Scenic Drive,[2] and 50 lots had been sold by the end of the decade.[3]

Prairie-style house along Scenic Drive, built in 1924

In 1926 Robert Foust, a partner in the real estate firm Alex McMillan Company, purchased a 100-acre (40 ha) tract of land on the southeast section of Looney's Bend with plans to develop a premier subdivision for Knoxville.[3] Foust envisioned a neighborhood for those "who insist upon and can afford the best," and where "all the ugliness of city life has been shut out."[3] He named the new subdivision "Talahi," Cherokee for "standing oak forest."[1] The new neighborhood, Foust believed, would bring together "an Indian past, a technical future, and a natural forest setting."[3]

Foust recruited landscape designer Earle S. Draper to oversee Talahi's complex landscape designs. The plans called for curvilinear streets, preservation of mature trees wherever possible, and underground utilities.[3] Lot sizes were to be no less than 5,000 square feet and were restricted to single-family homes.[3] Foust's restrictions called for all houses to be built in English Cottage or American Colonial Revival styles (this restriction was abandoned by subsequent developers).[3] A country club was to be built along the river bank.[3]

Between 1927 and 1929, Foust constructed several landscape features, including entrance pylons, fountains, and a park (Papoose Park). Talahi was opened to sales in the spring of 1929.[3] Only one lot—940 Cherokee Boulevard—was sold before the stock market crashed later that year. In the early 1930s, lots in Talahi, originally marketed in the $4,000 to $10,000 range, were selling for just $600.[3] His finances in ruins, Foust committed suicide in September 1933.[3]

Notable buildings and structures

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Talahi Improvements
Panther Fountain
Sequoyah Hills is located in Tennessee
Sequoyah Hills
Sequoyah Hills is located in the United States
Sequoyah Hills
StandortCherokee Boulevard, Iskagna Drive, Kenesaw Avenue, Keowee Drive, Talahi Drive, Taliluna Avenue and Tugaloo Drive
Knoxville, Tennessee
Coordinates35°56′09″N 83°57′24″W / 35.93583°N 83.95667°W / 35.93583; -83.95667
Area18 acres (7.3 ha)[3][9]
Built1929[3]
NRHP reference No.79002447
Added to NRHPDecember 26, 1979

Talahi Improvements

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Gatepost along Cherokee Boulevard

Before the stock market crash ruined his development efforts in 1929, Foust managed to complete several landscape improvements in the proposed Talahi subdivision. These include gateposts at either end of the subdivision along Cherokee Boulevard, two fountains, a park, streetlight standards, and stone benches. The roads were originally paved in concrete, which has been preserved along parts of Talahi Drive, Iskagna Drive, and Taliluna Avenue.[3]

The Talahi Improvements are concentrated primarily between the intersections of Talahi Drive and Cherokee Boulevard and Talahi Drive and Taliluna Avenue, with islands in both intersections containing the two fountains, called "Sunhouse Fountain" and "Panther Fountain," respectively. Papoose Park, which is surrounded by an iron fence, is situated in the median along Talahi Drive between the two intersections. Stone walls with inset benches form a broken circle around the Cherokee Boulevard/Talahi Drive intersection, with the north walls opening toward Papoose Park, and the south walls opening toward the lake, where the proposed country club was to be built.[3]

Sunhouse Fountain is a circular stone fountain with twelve small posts, each decorated with a sunburst motif, and each originally surmounted by a bronze frog (the frogs have since been removed).[3] Panther Fountain is a circular fountain with a central obelisk resting atop a base of varying geometric shapes. Water was discharged through panther heads on each of the four sides of the base. Cherokee motifs decorate the gateposts, pylons, and fountains, suggesting inspiration from both Cherokee folklore and the Art Deco movement's emphasis on abstract figures.[3]

Houses

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  • The Jenkins House on Cherokee Boulevard, built in 1955 and designed by noted Knoxville architect Ben McMurry, Jr., of the firm Barber & McMurry. In 2008, the magazine Oxford American profiled this house in its list of the best modern homes of the southeast.[10]
UT president's house at 940 Cherokee Boulevard
  • University of Tennessee president's house (940 Cherokee Boulevard), a Georgian Revival-style house built by Nashville surgeon Walter S. Nash in the 1930s after the Nash family home in downtown Knoxville was demolished for the construction of the Knoxville Post Office. Nash purchased the sole lot in Talahi before Foust's company collapsed into financial ruin. The University of Tennessee purchased the house in 1960 from Nash's son-in-law and daughter, Ray Jenkins and Eva Nash Jenkins, and used it as its presidential mansion until 2009.[11]
  • Thomas House (715 Scenic Drive), the oldest extant house in Sequoyah Hills, originally built in the 1850s as a tenant house on the farm of Allen Johnson. The Towle family purchased the farm in 1899 and in turn sold it to developer N.E. Logan in 1923.[2]
  • 726 Scenic Drive, a one-story Minimal Traditional-style Gunnison home built in 1948. Gunnison homes were a type of prefabricated house popular in the years following World War II.[2]
  • 934 Scenic Drive, a 2.5-story Tudor Revival-style house built in 1928, designed by landscape architect Elizabeth Dunlap.[2]
  • 937 Scenic Drive, a two-story Neoclassical-style house built in 1924, designed by the architectural firm Barber & McMurry.[2]
  • 1029 Scenic Drive, a two-story Neoclassical-style house built in 1930, designed Barber & McMurry.[2]
  • Lockett House (1065 Scenic Drive), a two-story Neoclassical-style house built in 1931, designed by the architectural firm Baumann and Baumann. The property includes an old log cabin moved from Jefferson County.[2]
  • 1079 Scenic Drive, a two-story art moderne house built in 1935, designed by Dunlap.[2]
  • 1119 Scenic Drive, a 1.5-story Tudor Revival-style house built in 1940 for Dr. Clifford E. Barbour, designed by architect Francis Keally and landscape architect Arthur F. Brinkerhoff.[12][2]

Other buildings

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Sequoyah Elementary School
  • Sequoyah Elementary School, the original part of which (facing Sagwa Drive) was built in 1929, designed by the architectural firm Barber McMurry.[13]
  • Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church, founded in 1947; the current church building was completed in 1954.[14]

Notable residents

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Notable residents of Sequoyah Hills have included Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., businessman Jim Clayton (owner of Clayton Homes), author Alex Haley, members of the Haslam family including Governor Bill Haslam,[2] author Cormac McCarthy, actress Patricia Neal, Tennessee Volunteers football coach Robert R. Neyland, actor David Keith, Knoxville mayors George Roby Dempster and Benjamin Morton, and photographer James Edward Thompson.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d History of Kingston Pike/Sequoyah Hills. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, Scenic Drive Area of Sequoyah Hills Neighborhood - Designation Report and Design Guidelines, September 2006. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Anne Taylor, National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for Talahi Improvements, April 1978.
  4. ^ Dogwood Arts Trails - Sequoyah Hills Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.
  5. ^ a b Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission, West Sector Plan - Historical Development and Historical Resources, 9 August 2007. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.
  6. ^ Gerald Schroedl, Overhill Cherokees. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2002. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.
  7. ^ J.G.M. Ramsey, Annals of Tennessee (Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press, 1999), pp. 288, 292.
  8. ^ East Tennessee Historical Society, Lucile Deaderick (ed.), Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976), p. 171.
  9. ^ Note this figure refers only to the National Register listing, not the entire neighborhood
  10. ^ Golden 'Chutes. Metro Pulse, 21 May 2008. Accessed at the Internet Archive, 5 October 2015.
  11. ^ Chloe White Kennedy, "UT Needs Appraisal to Sell President's House on Cherokee Boulevard," Knoxville News Sentinel, 28 April 2009. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.
  12. ^ "Dr. Clifford E. Barbour Offers Showplace Home for Sale". Knoxville News-Sentinel, Knoxville, Tennessee. July 16, 1951. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  13. ^ Katherine Wheeler, Barber & McMurry Architects. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2002. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.
  14. ^ Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church - Church History Archived 2010-11-09 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved: 20 December 2010.

Further reading

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  • Berwick, Sandy. Reflections on Sequoyah Hills (as told to Sandy Berwick, Chair, Kingston Pike-Sequoyah Hills Association Historical Committee). Knoxville, Tennessee: Kingston Pike-Sequoyah Hills Association Historical Committee, 1997.
  • Fletcher, Robert J (Jeff). A Historical Perspective of Talahi. (University of Tennessee unpublished paper, 1969.)
  • Isenhour, Judith Clayton. Knoxville - A Pictorial History. (Donning, 1978), page 128.
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