Squirewood Hall

Squirewood Hall, later known as Hampton House, is a historic house in Dandridge, Tennessee, US.

Squirewood Hall
Spirewood Hall (side view) in 2015
LocationCherokee Dr., Dandridge, Tennessee, U.S.
Coordinates36°0′55″N 83°25′20″W
Area6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built1858
NRHP reference No.73001793[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 16, 1973[2]

History

The two-story house was completed in 1858.[3] It was built with red bricks for Judge James Preston Swann (1819–1884).[4] A Southern Unionist, Swann represented Jefferson County at the pro-Union East Tennessee Convention following the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.[5] He served as a state circuit court judge in the years following the war.[6]

Architectural significance

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 16, 1973.[2]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Squirewood Hall". National Park Service. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  3. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: Hampton House". National Park Service. Retrieved November 22, 2015. Associated photos.
  4. Morristown (TN) Gazette, 19 March 1884, p. 3.
  5. Oliver Perry Temple, East Tennessee and the Civil War (R. Clark Company, 1899), pp. 349-351, 572.
  6. Tennessee Blue Book (1890), p. 182.


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