A nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to preserving Blount Mansion National Historic Landmark, and inspiring an appreciation of national, state, and local history through the site and the lives of those who lived and worked there.

PastPort Ticket includes single admission to Blount Mansion, Mabry-Hazen House, Crescent Bend, Marble Springs State Historic Site, James White’s Fort, Historic Ramsey House, Historic Westwood, and the East Tennessee History Center.

Blount Mansion was the home and capitol of the first and only governor of the Southwest Territory, William Blount, his family, and his slaves. Blount was a signer of the U.S. Constitution and played a pivotal role in Tennessee becoming the sixteenth state.

Take a virtual walk around the historic Blount Mansion This project is being supported in whole or in part by federal award number 21.027 awarded to the City of Knoxville by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Arts & Culture Alliance.

Donations to Blount Mansion allow us to restore historic structures, create meaningful public programming, and reach hundreds of school children each year with lessons in civics and early Tennessee history. Since Blount Mansion is a 501(c)3 …

This project is being supported in whole or in part by federal award number 21.027 awarded to the City of Knoxville by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Arts & Culture Alliance.

Click here to order a copy of William H. Masterson’s William Blount, the only book-length biography of the namesake of Blount Mansion. Mary Grainger “Molsey” Blount Mary Grainger Molsey Blount, the wife of William Blount, was born into a prominent family in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1760.

Donations to Blount Mansion allow us to restore historic structures, create meaningful public programming, and reach hundreds of school children each year with lessons in civics and early Tennessee history.

From the construction of Blount Mansion in 1792 through the end of the Civil War seven decades later, enslaved people were an indelible part of day-to-day life at Blount Mansion.

Blount Mansion is fortunate to have not one, but two historic homes on its beautiful property in downtown Knoxville: Blount Mansion itself, and the adjacent circa-1818 Craighead-Jackson House, a three-story brick Federalist structure located adjacent to the Mansion.