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The Craighead–Jackson theatre is a historical two-story , brick home in Knoxville , in the
U.S.A. state of Tennessee .The base was constructed by John Craighead in 1818 across the
street from the William Blount Mansion .The firm is on the National cash register of Historic
topographic point .The Craighead family lived in the sign of the zodiac until 1855 , when it
was sold to William Swan .Swan , who later was a phallus of the Confederate Congress , soon
sold the sign to George Jackson .The George I Andrew Jackson sept then lived in the home
until around 1885 .The State Department of Tennessee and the City of Knoxville purchased
the property in 1957 and heavily modified it , before transferring it to the Blount sign of the
zodiac connection in 1962 .From 1966 to the mid-1990s , the home served as the Blount
Mansion visitor center and offices , until it was replaced in this mapping by a purpose-built
visitant center field .Subsequently , it was used as archival storage and for occasional
limited event .In Sept 2020 , a $ 75,000 grant was obtained to allow for a regaining expected
to take 12–18 month , with completion predicted in the gloaming of 2021 .== emplacement
== The Craighead–Jackson House is situated at the corner of West Hill Avenue and State
Street in downtown Knoxville .The house 's back porch overlooks the merging of First Creek
and the TN River to the southeastern United States .The river 's Volunteer landing
waterfront lies at the understructure of the embankment to the south and southwest .==
account == After William Blount selected White 's Fort as the working capital of the newly
created Southwest Territory in 1791 , the fort 's owner , James White , and his son-in-law
Jacques Charles McClung drew up a grid of 64 half-acre lots that would eventually go the
substance of the city of Knoxville .The Craighead–Jackson House is located on what was
originally designated `` Lot 15 '' on McClung 's storage-battery grid .Lot 15 was sold to
William Blount in Oct 1791 , although Blount eventually disposed of the Lot and instead
built his mansion on the adjacent peck ( circle 18 ) which he purchased from John James
Earl Carter Jr. in 1794 .Tennessee historian Sir Henry Morton Stanley Folmsbee suggested
that the Blount kinfolk 's temporary worker cabin ( where they lived while the mansion was
being built ) may have been located at Lot 15 , rather than on the Hill , as local anesthetic
history has long dictated .John Craighead ( 1783–1826 ) purchased sight 15 in 1818 and
built the current house .Craighead served as a Knoxville city alderman in 1824 , was an
elder of the First Presbyterian Church , and is buried in the number 1 Presbyterian Church
necropolis .George II Helen Hunt Jackson , a Knoxville physician , obtained the firm in the
tardy 1850s .According to a local legend , the house is haunted by the spook of one of
Thomas Jonathan Jackson 's handmaid , who burned to death after her bird caught blast
while working in the house 's kitchen .In the 1950s , the Blount Mansion affiliation , which
had restored Blount manse in the 1930s , expressed involvement in acquiring the
Craighead–Jackson family .In 1957 , the house was offered to them for $ 15,000 .The state of
Tennessee offered to compensate half the cost if a Knoxville resident or residents would
devote the former half .The City of Knoxville subsequently paid the former one-half , and in
1962 transferred the house to the Blount Mansion Association with the precondition that it
represent used and that return begin within six months .The Association set up a exhibit of
groundbreaker relics at the sign of the zodiac in the late 1960s , and used the house for its
federal agency until it moved to a Modern office on Gay Street .== designing == The
Craighead–Jackson is a blank brick house consisting of two account and a cellar .The first
story consists of a hallway that spans the center of the sign of the zodiac from east to west
and contains the house 's two briny entrances and staircase , with a sitting room on the
north side of the house and a living room on the Dixie incline .The endorsement story has
two sleeping accommodation , with the south side bedroom being slightly enceinte than the
Union incline bedroom .The basement has a dining elbow room and a large `` bare ''
room .Chimneys are located at both the north and in the south death of the house .A small
porch graces the door along the front ( west ) window dressing of the firm , and a enceinte
compensate porch is located at the seat of the house .