The Deery Inn , also known as "The Old Tavern" or "The Mansion House and Store," is a historic building on Tennessee State Route 126 , formerly called Main Street in Blountville, Tennessee . It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is considered the "centerpiece" of the Blountville local historic district .
13-487: Deery Inn is a two-story Federal -style building with 19 rooms. The original building was a log structure , built in the 1780s or 1790s, that served travelers passing through the area on the Great Stage Road . William Deery, an Irishman from Ulster , acquired the property in 1801. He expanded the building to include a general store and tavern , with hotel rooms on the second story . The building's 19 rooms include
26-399: A large entrance hall, a gathering room , a dining room, a library, two kitchens, three bathrooms, two attics, a cellar, four bedrooms for the family, and three sleeping rooms for travelers. There are two chimneys . The front of the building has three entrance doors and 13 windows whose glass panes are arranged in a nine-over-six configuration. Deery prospered as a businessman. In addition to
39-547: Is the name for the classical architecture built in the United States following the American Revolution between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was influenced heavily by the works of Andrea Palladio with several innovations on Palladian architecture by Thomas Jefferson and his contemporaries. Jefferson's Monticello estate and several federal government buildings, including
52-553: The American colonies ' new motifs of neoclassical architecture as it was epitomized in Britain by Robert Adam , who published his designs in 1792. American Federal architecture typically uses plain surfaces with attenuated detail, usually isolated in panels, tablets, and friezes . It also had a flatter, smoother façade and rarely used pilasters . It was most influenced by the interpretation of ancient Roman architecture , fashionable after
65-616: The Civil War Gideon and Mary Elizabeth Cate leased the property and operated the inn under the name Cates' Hotel. Several surrounding buildings, including the Sullivan County courthouse , were destroyed by fire during the Battle of Blountville , but the inn survived because Cates had used bribery to get the Union and Confederate commanders to spare his inn. Gideon and Mary Cates purchased
78-632: The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 in New York. The historic eastern part of Bleecker Street in New York, between Broadway and the Bowery , is home to Federal-style row houses at 7 to 13 and 21 to 25 Bleecker Street . The classicizing style of Federal architecture can especially be seen in the quintessential New England meeting house, with their lofty and complex towers by architects such as Lavius Fillmore and Asher Benjamin . This American neoclassical high style
91-737: The White House , are among the most prominent examples of buildings constructed in Federal style. Federal style is also used in association with furniture design in the United States of the same time period. The style broadly corresponds to the classicism of Biedermeier style in the German -speaking lands, Regency architecture in Britain, and the French Empire style . It may also be termed Adamesque architecture . The White House and Monticello were setting stones for what Federal architecture has become. In
104-650: The back of the property, including a smokehouse , the offices of the King Ironworks, a spring house , and an early law office. The Old Deery Inn is now owned by the government of Sullivan County. A substantial restoration project was undertaken in 2007. The inn is managed by the Sullivan County Historical Preservation Association and is open for group tours. [REDACTED] Media related to Old Deery Inn at Wikimedia Commons Federal architecture Federal-style architecture
117-456: The early United States, the founding generation consciously chose to associate the nation with the ancient democracies of Greece and the republican values of Rome . Grecian aspirations informed the Greek Revival , lasting into the 1850s. Using Roman architectural vocabulary, the Federal style applied to the balanced and symmetrical version of Georgian architecture that had been practiced in
130-550: The inn, he owned and operated stores in several East Tennessee communities, a stagecoach line that had eight stagecoaches and 53 teams of horses as of 1821, and a steamboat service between Knoxville and Chattanooga . He died in 1845. Notable people who are recorded as having stayed at the inn in its early history include Andrew Jackson , James K. Polk , Andrew Johnson , the Marquis de LaFayette (on his U.S. travels in 1824–25 ), and Louis Phillipe Orleans , King of France. During
143-561: The property after the Civil War, and owned it until the 1880s. In 1887, the inn was sold to Amanda Pearson, whose family was to own it until 1940. The property was operated as an inn until 1930. At some time during the Pearson family ownership, the inn building housed a post office . Virginia Byars Caldwell bought the inn in 1940. She undertook to restore the property to its early 19th-century appearance. She also moved several old log structures onto
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#1732869155327156-452: The unearthing of Pompeii and Herculaneum . The bald eagle was a common symbol used in this style, with the ellipse a frequent architectural motif. The classicizing manner of constructions and town planning undertaken by the federal government was expressed in early federal projects of lighthouses, harbor buildings, universities, and hospitals. It can be seen in the rationalizing, urbanistic layout of L'Enfant Plan of Washington and in
169-518: Was the idiom of America's first professional architects, such as Charles Bulfinch and Minard Lafever . Robert Adam and James Adam were leading influences through their books. In Salem, Massachusetts , there are numerous examples of American colonial architecture and Federal architecture in two historic districts: Chestnut Street District , which is part of the Samuel McIntire Historic District containing 407 buildings, and
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