Historic Old North Knoxville Homes for Sale

William E. Peters House
George Barber Designed House

1319 Grainger Avenue

This home called "Columned Portals" was constructed in a typical east Tennessee farm house style by the George Peters family in 1855. In 1885, George Peters' son, William E. Peters, hired celebrated Knoxville architect George Barber to remodel and enlarge the house creating a revival form not at all typical of Barber's more familiar Victorian style designs.  Victorian and Neoclassical influences are evident in its projecting bay window and ionic capitals on round fluted columns, respectively. The original George Barber plans were also used in recent restoration of the two story, 3600 square foot structure. Double parlors (one now a library) and a formal dining room open from its central hallway. An open staircase with a handsome newel post light ascends to upstairs bedrooms and a quaint bath with original plumbing fixtures. The upstairs porch has period canvas flooring.  This house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 2001.

$267,500

MLS ID#: 674342
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