1836- Bowman-Hodges-McBee House

The Bowman-Hodges-McBee House was built in 1836.

Location: 6802 Hodges Ferry Road, Knoxville

According to the Knoxville/Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission's "2012 South County Sector Plan,":

“Bowman-Hodges-McBee House (1836) Hodges Ferry Road- The Bowman-Hodges-McBee House, located across the French Broad River from the Riverdale community, is significant for its Gothic Revival architecture and its role in river transportation history. Samuel Bowman received the land surrounding this house in a land grant from the State of Tennessee in 1812. Bowman built the house and established a ferry which ran until the 1950s. The house features several windows that are highlighted with ruby glass transoms and sidelights. Timber framing with noggin infill form the structure. The ferry landing is still visible on the river bank. Later owners and ferrymen were Samuel’s son, James W. Bowman, who sold the house and ferry to Robert L. McBee in 1886. C.B. Hodges succeeded McBee as the ferryman. The ferry was used by the Federal forces in floating supplies down the French Broad River to Knoxville when the city was under siege by Confederate General Longstreet” (p. 61).

Knox Heritage has a picture of this house in its Picasa web album of antebellum homes. Click here to see it.