Mabry Hood House

The Mabry Hood House, also known as the Mabry Hood Mansion, was an antebellum home on Kingston Pike in Knox County, Tennessee. The vacant home sat in the path of Pellissippi Parkway, and was demolished when the construction commenced on the highway in the late 1880's.

The house was once part of a 3,000 acre plantation owned by the Mabry family, one of Knoxville's wealthiest and most prominent 19th Century families. During the ante-bellum era, George Mabry owned the farm but also resided in Knoxville. Joseph Alexander Mabry, Sr. and Joseph Alexander Mabry, Jr., (1825-1882), both immortalized in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, also lived on the property. (Joseph Alexander Mabry Jr. was born there.) The family also built a home in east Knoxville, the Mabry-Hazen House, Knoxville which is now a historic house museum.

The Mabry Hood House was one of several antebellum plantation homes located along Kingston Pike in the western Knox County. (The nearby Baker Peters House still survives.) The home was a two-story, Greek Revival style home with a columned, two-story high front portico. Although primarily brick, wood siding was located on the front face of the home behind the portico. Unlike Knollwood, which was located on the top of Bearden Hill, the Mabry Hood House sat close to Kingston Pike, and near grade. Both the Mabry family and the neighboring Baker family were supporters of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

External links

• TopoQuest.com: Mabry Hood Mansion - Topographic map includes the Mabry Hood Mansion as a black square, before Pellissippi Parkway was extended south. The mansion is located south of the intersection of Mabry Hood Road and Kingston Pike, and north of a kidney-shaped pond.
• Park City Online: Chilhowee Park History

References

• Brewer, Becky French, and McDaniel, Douglas Stuart. Park City, Tennessee: Images of America, Arcadia Publishing (2005).
• McKenzie, Robert Tracy. Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War. Oxford University Press, USA (2006).