Glenmore Victorian Mansion - Jefferson City TN - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

From their website in part: HOUSE AND GROUNDS
Glenmore was built between 1868 and 1869. Many houses of the Victorian period have French influences. Glenmore shows it in the curving, mansard-type roofs and dormer windows on the third floor.

The house is T-shaped and has 27 rooms. The walls are three bricks thick. The house was built of bricks made by slaves right on the property — prior to Emancipation, of course — in anticipation of building the house.

Depending on how you count, the house could be five stories high. The tower is a single room, approximately 14 feet square and 16 feet high, extending 30 feet above the main roof. The front and back parts of Glenmore are actually two houses connected by a hallway. The back section of the house is called “Doll Town.”

The main house contains fifteen rooms: downstairs rooms have 15½-foot ceilings, and the upstairs rooms’ ceilings are 16 feet high. “Doll Town,” a smaller replica of the main part of the house, contains twelve smaller rooms. This is where residents usually spent winters because the rest of the house was too hard to heat.

One of the most beautiful points in the house is the graceful, winding staircase, with its broad steps and landings. A Jarnagin descendant remembered that children were never allowed to slide down the front banisters, so they slid down the back steps. A similar staircase connects the three stories of “Doll Town.”

Some rooms in the back “Doll Town” section were previously used for caretaker’s quarters. They were recently opened for public tours. Glenmore’s gift shop is located in this section.

The property includes a two-story brick smokehouse that was built about the same time as the house. Other out-buildings have been removed as a result of deterioration.

The only major change since the house was built was the addition of the porch by the Jarnagins after they bought the property. APTA was happy to receive the house from the Jarnagin family, but it was a challenge because the house needed a lot of work. Now, more than forty years later, there is still a lot of restoration to be completed. Volunteers do most of the work, but a lot of money must be raised to pay for materials.

LOCATION: 1280 North Chucky Pike Jefferson City, TN 37760
Phone: 865-475-5014

Public/Private: Public Tours Available?: First Saturday in May to the last Sunday in October Year Built: 1868 Web Address: [Web Link]

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