Blount Mansion

09/22/2026

This Saturday, September 26, the real UT welcomes the University of Texas to Neyland Stadium for a noon kick-off.

Come park at the Blount Mansion and enjoy the atmosphere of Downtown Knoxville on a game day! Go Vol!! 🧡 🏈 🧡

09/22/2026

This Friday, September 25, join the Historic House Museums of Knoxville on the Blount Mansion Visitor Center lawn (200 West Hill Avenue, Knoxville TN 37902) for a free outdoor movie night featuring "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"! Admission is FREE but donations are greatly appreciated to support each museum’s preservation mission.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and the movie starts at 8 p.m. While you are waiting for the movie to start, take a self-guided tour of the Blount Mansion. Staff will be on hand to answer your questions.

Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs, blankets, or other items to lounge comfortably on the lawn. Concessions will be available for purchase. We look forward to seeing you there!

09/18/2026

Last night we had a fantastic turnout for our annual Dr. Paul H. Bergeron Constitution Day Lecture. This year's lecture was sponsored by Tennessee 250 and Historic House Museums of Knoxville. Our speaker was Dr. Warren Dockter of the East Tennessee Historical Society. His lecture on “William Blount, East Tennessee, and the Origins of the Anglo-American Special Relationship ” was excellent. Have a watch yourself and feel free to let us know what you think of his talk. Many thanks to Tennessee 250, HHMK, and Dr. Dockter for making it all happen.

Our annual Dr. Paul H. Bergeron Constitution Day Lecture with Dr. W...

09/15/2026

Come to the Blount Mansion for Movie Night!

On Friday, September 25, join the Historic House Museums of Knoxville on the Blount Mansion Visitor Center lawn (200 West Hill Avenue, Knoxville TN 37902) for a free outdoor movie night featuring Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade! Doors open at 7 p.m. and the movie starts at 8 p.m.

Beginning at 7 p.m., the house museum will be open for self-guided tours with staff on hand to answer questions.

Admission is FREE but donations are greatly appreciated to support each museum’s preservation mission. Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs, blankets, or other items to lounge comfortably on the lawn. Concessions will be available for purchase.

Come enjoy an evening in downtown Knoxville surrounded by history while taking in the adventures of Indiana Jones!

09/15/2026

“William Blount, East Tennessee, and the Origins of the Anglo-American Special Relationship”

Come join the Blount Mansion at our Visitor’s Center (200 West Hill Avenue, Knoxville TN 37902) this Thursday, September 17 at 6 p.m. for our annual Dr. Paul H. Bergeron Constitution Day lecture. It is our special pleasure to host Dr. Warren Dockter of the East TN Historical Society.

The lecture will look at Blount’s land speculation and subsequent impeachment. It has long been treated as an episode of corruption, if not constitutional crisis, but should instead be understood as a formative moment in the emergence of a pragmatic Anglo-American relationship. Rooted in East Tennessee and the Southwest frontier, Blount’s actions exposed the limits of revolutionary idealism, forced the United States to confront its dependence on British power, and helped normalize informal cooperation between former enemies in the Atlantic world.

There will be a special DAR bellringing for Constitution Day at 5:30 p.m. before the lecture. All are welcome to come and participate. There is limited free parking onsite. $10 donations at the door are appreciated. Cash and card accepted. Don’t miss this enlightening discussion!

09/02/2026

Have a look. Maybe someone out there knows these two "gentlemen".

08/30/2026

Your tax dollars at work - check out the new roof on Blount Mansion!

In April, the City transferred $60,000 from its Historic Preservation and Façade Improvement Program to help the Gov. William Blount Mansion Association protect the historic home, which dates to the late 1700s and is a National Historic Landmark. The funds are paired with a state grant to reroof the home and outbuilding in cedar roofing shakes.

08/29/2026

Last night, two young men stole the flags from our flag poles at our visitor center on the corner of Gay Street and Hill Avenue at about 2:15 in the morning. What is especially galling about this is our flags were at half staff for Dolly Parton. Considering those flags were donated by a generous downtown resident I’m sure Miss Dolly would be very disappointed in these two young men. We have filed a police report with KPD and submitted the footage of them stealing from us. Considering everything we do is made possible by our generous donors we sure hope these two young men grow up and do better and learn not to steal from anyone much less an educational nonprofit.

08/22/2026

We will be closed for tours today to host a private event for one of our non-profit partners. We will be open our regular hours tomorrow, Sunday the 23rd, from noon to 4.
Sorry for the late notice.

07/22/2026

NEXT MONTH!! - Blount Mansion is proud to present local living legend, Laura Still, for our Centennial Anniversary Lecture Series!

On Thursday, August 13th at 6pm, Laura Still will speak on "The Women Who Changed Blount Mansion’s History!"

One hundred years ago, in a time of fluctuating values and new cultural concepts, a group of women banded together to salvage a piece of our disappearing past: the Blount Mansion.

Meet the women who had the vision to see a decaying old house as the birthplace of Tennessee and took on the tremendous challenge of saving it for future generations.

-Lecture starts at 6pm
-The special speaking event will be at Blount Mansion Visitors Center, 200 West Hill Avenue, Knoxville TN 37902.
-Limited free parking onsite
-$10 Donation suggested at the door. Cash and card accepted
-RSVP to [email protected]