Local History

The house is not old. Still, it’s curious in that way that old houses often are. There’s something about it, something that feels candlelit — like the whispering of secrets between friends or maybe lovers. It’s pretty, beautiful even, and yet it lacks pretense. Situated in one of Jonesborough‘s most elegant neighborhoods, the brick house faces fields of grazing cattle and is surrounded in the near distance by sprawling East Tennessee farms. It’s not really that kind of home place. There are no dinner bells and no fading memories of men coming in from the fields. But it does have a loamy sensibility. It’s comfortable, lived-in. It somehow missed the trendy sterility of the HGTV machine. Outside, the landscape is lush with late summer blossoms, and inside, its rooms are filled with warm wooden furnishings, family quilts, and prints of Elizabethton’s Historic Covered Bridge.