Dulin House, Knoxville, Tennessee
This little known and easily missed house located at 3100 Kingston Pike comes from the studio of one of the most famous residential architects to design a house built in Knoxville. The Dulin House was designed in 1915 by John Russell Pope (1874-1937), a prominent architect from New York. Pope’s main focus in practice was residential, but he completed a number of commercial and public buildings throughout the Northeast, including the Jefferson Memorial and the National Gallery of Art.
The Dulin House closely resembles Pope’s first residential commission, the Jacobs Residence, located in Newport, Rhode Island. Interestingly, the Dulin House was the original home of what is now known as the Knoxville Museum of Art. The museum, formerly the Dulin Gallery of Art, was founded by Mary Katherine Dulin Folger and was housed there from 1961 to the late 1980’s. We are unsure if the original Dulin house had two or three window bays on each front wing facade. Three would more closely match the precedent below, and seems to work better with the overall composition.
The Jacobs Residence, Rhode Island
Pope graduated from Columbia University in 1894 and also studied for three years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He traveled extensively in Europe during this time and gained his love of Classicism.
Reference: James B. Garrison. Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope. New York: Acanthus, 2004.
Boston’s Quincy Market, designed by Alexander Parris sometime during the 1820’s.