Circa 1850s- House at 715 Scenic Drive, Sequoyah Hills

According to the Wikipedia article about the Sequoyah Hills neighborhood, the house at 715 Scenic Drive "was originally built in the 1850s as a tenant house on the farm of Allen Johnson." It is the oldest surviving house in Sequoyah Hills. In September 2006, the Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission came out with a publication called “Knoxville Historic Zoning Commission- Designation Reportand Design Guidelines- Scenic Drive Area of Sequoyah Hills Neighborhood." On its sixth page, this publication discusses the history of the house at 715 Scenic Drive:

"The oldest house still standing in Sequoyah Hills, at 715 Scenic Drive, was part of the [Robert Houston] Armstrong property. It is thought to have been built in the mid- to late-1850s, probably as a tenant house. The 23-acre tract that included this house changed ownership several times. Allen Johnson (1808-1898) and his family lived in a larger house, adjacent to 715 Scenic, that was known as the plantation. That house was passed to his son, John L. Johnson (1840-1925) who was married to Moses Looney’s daughter, Nancy. The Towle family bought the 23 acres and 2 houses from the John L. Johnson’s in 1899. Sometime after that, the larger house was destroyed. William L. Towle was given this property by his mother, Julia Elizabeth Bates Towle; he farmed the land until he sold it to N.E. Logan in 1923. Mr. Logan, who was a prominent developer, never lived on Scenic Drive. He sold the property to W.R. Bradley in 1923."