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20175417 Crestwood DriveThis Minimal Traditional style home with Tudor influence was built inthe mid-1930s for J. Frank and Virginia Baker who owned the house until1945. Mr. Baker, a native of Roane County, was a graduate of the Collegeof Engineering at UT. He immediately joined Sanford-Day Iron Worksin 1908 and became a stockholder in the company in 1916. EventuallyMr. Baker moved up in the ranks of the company, becoming presidentof the firm in 1940. He retired as president in 1947, but continued hisassociation with the company as chairman of the board. Mr. and Mrs.Baker were active in First Christian Church and Cherokee Country Club.Hubert J. and Thelma B. Ford owned this house from 1945 until 1947.Mr. Ford was co-owner of Twin City Buick Company. The couple latermoved to Maryville. Kenneth R. and Priscilla G. Kaiser owned the housefrom 1947 until 1973. Mr. Kaiser was a graduate of Pennsylvania StateCollege (now Penn State University) and played lacrosse, becomingcaptain in 1930. He was also president of the college chapter of KappaSigma fraternity. In 1947 they moved to Knoxville from Pennsylvania soMr. Kaiser could head of the Rohm & Haas Company Dale Avenue plantin Knoxville. Mr. Kaiser was president of the Knoxville Symphony, ledthe 1954 March of Dimes campaign, was chairman of the Fort SandersRegional Medical Center building fund drive and was on theexecutive board of the Boy Scouts, among other civic activities.205205001 Westover TerraceThis Tudor style home was built in 1939 for Ben B. Sanders. Not a lot isknown about Mr. Sanders, but when he owned this house he referred toit as “Green Acres”. Russell and Georgia Newman owned the house from1945 until 1972. Mr. Newman owned and operated the R.A. NewmanBetter Foods Store in Burlington for 35 years.5

Holston Hills Country Club5200 Holston Hills DriveDesigned and openedin 1927, Holston HillsCountry Club is perchedon a hill in the HolstonHills neighborhood. Theclub house was designedby Charles Barber ofBarber & McMurry, andshows excellent scale inthe degree of irregularityand also the texture ofthe brick walls whichgive the exterior walls arough texture.The center of the clubhouse overlooks thegolf course and iscomposed of alternatingbay windows with talland elegant archeddoors, and has a centralballroom with largecathedral ceilings andexposed wood trusses.Also noteworthy are the entrance, with its porte cochere and doublestairway to the lobby, the roof projection, and cornice detail.6During the depression, the club property faced foreclosure but 15 club membersformed a company and bought the property. The nationally recognized firm ofBarber & McMurry (Charles I. Barber and Benjamin F. McMurry), establishedin 1915 was noted for its residential, institutional, and ecclesiastical work. Theentire issue of Southern Architecture and Building News of June 1930 wasdevoted to the work of this firm. In later years they were noted for their collegiatework such as that at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the Universityof Tennessee at Martin and at Maryville College. In the 1920s their residentialwork included grand Colonial Revival and Neo-Gothic examples, but increasinglythey became involved in the design of smaller suburban houses and churches.West Knoxville, Lyons Bend, and Sequoyah Hills reveal an impressive arrayof their residential work.620165408 Crestwood DriveThis Italianate Revival style home was built in the early-1930s for GainesM. Harrill, Jr. The Harrill’s owned the house until 1938. Mr. Harrillowned and managed The Harrill Transfer Company, which his fatherfounded in 1866. The Company was sold to a Loudon firm in 1949.When his father started the moving and transfer business, he had onlyone wagon and two horses. Eventually his equipment grew to include 24horse wagons that could haul 20 tons of marble from the area quarries tothe railroads, and in 1916 Mr. Harrill switched to gasoline transportation.After his father’s death in 1921, Harrill continued the 83-year-old familybusiness until its liquidation in March of 1949.19

Holston Hills Country Club Golf CourseThis 18-hole Donald Ross designed course sits on 180 open acres ofrolling hills adjoining the Holston River. Designed and opened around1928, the course has changed very little over the years. Today the courserates in the top 100 of classic golf courses in the United States by Golfand Travel Magazine. When the course was designed Ross was one ofthe most famous golf coursearchitects in the world. Heimmediately gained recognitionwith his signature layouts.Ross did not have the modernmeans to design a golf course;he did not have the golf carts,aerial photography, or heavyequipment. Ross would walk hislayouts and staked the basicdesign. His major resourceswere men, mules, picks, shovels,drag pens, and wheelbarrows.155404 Crestwood DriveThis Tudor Revival style home was built in 1928 for Ray V. andAudrey P. DePue. The couple owned the house until 1937. Mr. DePuewas Knoxville’s first clinical pathologist and well known physician.Dr. DePue graduated from Lincoln Memorial University in 1910 andreceived specialized laboratory and pathology training at the Universityof Chicago. Dr. DePue was born in Stillwater New Jersey, the son of aprominent farmer.The family came to Knoxville in 1895, and started Knoxville’s first steamlaundry, named Knoxville Steam Laundry near W. Fifth Avenue. Dr.DePue was an avid athlete as a young adult, excelling at golf, football,baseball and wrestling. Mr. and Mrs. DePue were avid golfers andmembers of Holston Hills Country Club.Dr. Robert P. and Madge B. Layman owned this house from 1937 until1975. Dr. Layman was a physician in Knoxville for 38 years starting hispractice in 1936. He was a member of Knoxville Academy of Medicineand served for 3 ½ years as a Captain in the Medical Corps UnitedStates Army during World War II. He was a graduate of the University ofTennessee Medical School.18Dr. and Mrs. Layman were instrumental in the establishment ofEastminster Presbyterian Church on Asheville Highway.The course featured 100sand and grass bunkers, withBermuda grass fairways. Thegolf course remains practicallythe same as Ross laid it out in1928, with only small changesmade; a bunker was added atthe par 5 seventh hole, and traps were filled on the ninth andeighteenth hole. With the exception of those changes, the course isplayed the way Ross designed it. Described as an “old fashioned” golfcourse, it has no island greens, no 100-year sand traps, and no “waste”areas. The course has no resemblance to a modern stadium courselayout.6Donald J. Ross was born in Scotland in 1872. Arriving in the UnitedSates in 1899, he went to work designing golf courses all over NewEngland. His practice spread into the Midwest and down the Southeastcoast. In association with design assistants J.B. McGovern and WalterHatch, Ross maintained a summer office in Little Compton, RhodeIsland and satellite offices in North Amherst, Massachusetts andWynnewood, Pennsylvania. At his death in 1948, Ross left behind alegacy of 413 courses, including Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina,Seminole in Florida, and the site of the 1996 U.S. Open,7Oakland Hills outside Detroit.

20145420 Crestwood Drive7205405 Holston Hills RoadJohn E. and Dorothy B. Kirby lived in this Tudor style home from whenit was built in 1939 until 1956. Mr. Kirby was a real estate agent. Mrs.Kirby was active in the King’s Daughters, having been president of AlthaCircle. She worked for Brooks Equipment and Manufacturing Companyfor 14 years until her retirement in 1945. Her brother, E. Neil Brooks,was president of the firm. Mr. and Mrs. Kirby were active members in theHolston Hills Country Club, and Mrs. Kirby served on many committeesfor the club.Leon and Lola K. Shamblin owned and lived in the house from 1964 until1975. Both were avid members, directors and committee members ofHolston Hills Country Club. Mr. Shamblin was assistant treasurer of TVAand employed by TVA for 30 years. Mrs. Shamblin was president of theAkima Club and handicap chairman of Holston Hills Country Club golfcourse. Mrs. Shamblin was also a graduate of the New York School ofInterior Design; she took her full course load via correspondence.8This Colonial Revival style home was built in 1939 for Samuel B. andJennie E. Beaty, who owned the house until 1953. Mr. Beaty was founderand owner of Beaty Chevrolet Company. Before founding the companyhe operated a used car business. In 1932 Mr. Beaty and a H.C. Buchananstarted the B&B Chevrolet Company. Mr. Beaty bought out his partner’sinterest and the firm became what it is known as today. Later during thecompany’s growth, his sons entered the business with their father.In 1952 the Beaty’s moved to California expecting the climate to bebeneficial to their health, but they would return Knoxville for visits. Theywere avid members of First Seventh-day Adventist Church. Thomas andJeanne Stevens owned have lived in the house since 1952. Dr. Stevensis credited with having administered the first injection of penicillinin Knoxville. He also discovered a cure for the once fatal condition ofgaseous gangrene and pioneered in research of total joint replacementand orthopedic rehabilitation therapy.Dr. Stevens was a graduate of Knoxville High School and the Universityof Tennessee. He received his medical degree from The UT MedicalSchool in Memphis. Dr. Stevens was also orthopedic surgeon for the UTathletic department. Active in community affairs, he served as chairmanof the city’s Civil Service Merit Board and chairman of HolstonHills Country Club.17

5417 Holston Hills RoadThis Tudor stylehome was built inthe mid 1920s andis thought to be aBarber & McMurrydesign. Al andMary Salomonemoved to Knoxvillefrom Winnipeg,Canada, in 1920.Mr. Salomone wasan installationcontractor in themarble businessand was operatorand owner of Salomone Marble Company. Mr. Salomone supervised theplacement of marble at the Hotel Biltmore in New York City, the NationalGallery and the Supreme Court Building, both in Washington D.C. Later inlife, Mr. Salomone was president of Gray Knox Marble Company.820135517 Crestwood DriveThis Colonial Revival style home was built in 1927 for Judge John M.Kelly. Kelly and his family owned the house until 1936. Born in Knoxvilleand educated in Washington D.C. schools and Georgetown University,Judge Kelly started practicing law with his brother in 1916. He waselected as a Knoxville Circuit Court Judge in 1942 and held the benchuntil retiring in 1963.James S. and Opal M. Bowman owned this house from 1943 until 1957.Mr. Bowman was a native of West Liberty, Iowa. He graduated from theUniversity of Iowa with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering,and later spent a year at the University of Wisconsin in graduate workand teaching.He came to TVA in October 1933 as a hydraulics engineer and in March1935 became head planning engineer. Two years later he was madehead project planning engineer. In 1941 he became assistant chief watercontrol planning engineer and in 1943 was made chief water controlplanning engineer, a post he held until his retirement 12 yearslater in April 1955.16The Salomone family lived in the house until 1941. One of Mr. and Mrs.Salomone’s children also had a colorful past. Al Salomone, Jr. was a wellknown hotel manager in New York City. Having begun his career at theAndrew Johnson Hotel in Knoxville while attending The University ofTennessee, Salomone, Jr. held jobs as a mail clerk, cashier, and room clerkfor the hotel. During World War II, he was a major in the U.S. Army and wasawarded a Bronze Star for his combat in Europe. After the war he returnedto home and became the assistant manager at the Andrew Johnson Hotel.Salomone, Jr. moved to New York City in 1947 and joined Hilton HotelsCorporation. His first post was with the Plaza Hotel as an assistant manager.He would later become president of Realty Hotels, Inc., and thought out hiscareer was manager of the Biltmore, Barclay, Commodore and RooseveltHotels in New York City. In 1969, Salomone, Jr. was awarded with theindustry’s highest honor, “Oscar of the Waldorf” award, citing him asoutstanding hotelman of the year.E.J. and Lillian J. Sherwood owned and lived in the house from 1941until 1983. Mr. Sherwood was owner of O.P. Jenkins Furniture Company.Mrs. Sherwood was director of the Around-the-World department ofthe International Order of the King’s Daughters and Sons and the NorthAmerican Indians department for the King’s Daughters. In 1956 she was BetaSigma Phi Sorority’s choice for Knoxville’s “First Lady of 1956”, givento women who devote their efforts to civic and cultural activities.9

5518 Crestwood Drive9205421 Holston Hills RoadThis Italianate Revival style home was built in 1928 for Charles M.Rodgers. Edward J. McMillan and Mamie McMillan owned the housefrom 1936 until 1939.Mr. McMillan was one of the South’s leading industrialists. McMillanwas president of Standard Knitting Mills Inc. and on his retirement in1956 he became chairman of its board. He entered the textile industryafter completing a course in engineering at UT and graduating from thePhiladelphia Textile School in 1909.2012This Colonial Revival house was built in the early 1920s and is thoughtto be one of the first houses built in the neighborhood. John L. andAdele F. Kennedy lived in the house from the early 1920s until 1941. Mr.Kennedy was a shoe store partner with L.S. Hall and Ambrose Gainesand later a partner in the Kennedy-Gillespie and John L. Kennedy storeon Gay Street. At one time he was with Lord & Taylor’s shoe departmentin New York City. The Kennedy’s were members of the Church of theImmaculate Conception and Mr. Kennedy was an avid golfer and wonseveral championships. William K. and Jo B. Johnson owned the housefrom 1941 until 1942.After returning to Knoxville, Mr. McMillan started working for the mill,starting at the bottom and working is way up, he learned every operationin all the departments. He started in the fall of 1909 and was electedpresident of the company in 1932 upon the death of his father, who hadbeen the president since it was founded in 1900.Mr. Johnson was a well known Knoxville building contractor and civicleader. He was the founder/owner/president of Johnson and GalyonConstruction Company. Among the buildings his company constructedwas the Civic Auditorium, Presbyterian Hospital, University Hospitaland a number of buildings on the UT campus. Before starting Johnsonand Galyon, he was associated with J.E. Willard in a firm calledJohnson & Willard. This firm built the East Tennessee TuberculosisHospital, Austin Homes and Western Heights housing projects. Glennand Betty Cate owned the house from 1942 until 1974. Mr. Cate was atop sales representative for Eastman Kodak and owner of Glenn A. CateAircraft Company.Mr. and Mrs. McMillan were married in February 1918. They weremembers of First Presbyterian Church and CherokeeCountry Club.10Mr. Cate was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean Conflict and his familywas members of the Chilhowee Hills Baptist Church. Mr. Cate15was also 1984’s Father of the Year.

20105610 Holston Hills Road5600 Crestwood DriveThis Colonial Revival style home was built in 1939 for William R. andPearl E. Chambers who owned the house from 1939 until 1966. Mr.Chambers was called the Father of Oak Ridge. He was the individual whorecommended the site of Oak Ridge to the Army as an atomic energycenter in 1942. A native of Ohio, Mr. Chambers selected Knoxville for hispermanent home in 1934.This Colonial Revival style home was built in 1927 for H. Blaine Hill,who owned the house until 1934. James R.S. and Bess May owned thehouse from 1934 until 1960. Mr. May was owner of May’s Furniture andUpholstery Shop and a widely known pigeon fancier.A graduate of Ohio State University with a degree in engineering,Chambers first job in East Tennessee was as an engineer with TVA. Hewould later help direct the engineering phase of the Oak Ridge project’sdevelopment. He also recommended the site and supervised planning forthe Watts Bar Steam Plant.2011May served several terms as president of Dixie King Club, whosemembership included pigeon fanciers throughout the United States.Mr. May won numerous awards for his young Blue Kings and SilverKings pigeons.14In 1947 Chambers began a part-time job as an instructor at UT in theengineering department and in 1949 became head of the department ofMechanical Engineering. Chambers retired from UT in 1952 and wasa consultant for several years for Union Carbide. Mr. Chambers washonored by his own associates when he was given the 1965 Nathan W.Dougherty Award, presented annually by UT’s Engineering College to anoutstanding engineering leader.11

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