Robert Reynolds

Knollwood, as the house is also called, went up on land bought from James White while Major Robert Reynolds was away in the Mexican War, with his sister Rebecca supervising the work; it was finished in 1851. It began as a Federal house and gained neoclassical details later, and Charles Griffith added the front porch in 1919. Longstreet used it as headquarters late in 1863 and reportedly planned the Fort Sanders assault in the dining room. The Tucker family later owned it, and it now houses a company office.

What the plaque says

Robert Reynolds Major Robert Bannon Reynolds, veteran of the War with Mexico, built this house in 1848. During the War between the states, it was the command post of Confederate commander, Major Gen. James Longstreet, prior to his launching of the siege of Knoxville. Many Confederate units were camped in the fields nearby.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Blount Mansion — 5.6 mi
  The 1792 frame house of William Blount, governor of the Southwest Territory, Knoxville's only National Historic Landmark, where the people he enslaved are named.
• Beck Cultural Exchange Center — 6.8 mi
  Knoxville's Black history museum and archive, opened in 1975 in the 1912 Dandridge Avenue house the community bought for $22,500.
• Green McAdoo Cultural Center — 14 mi
  The 1935 school in Clinton that sent twelve Black students down Foley Hill to desegregate Clinton High School in August 1956, now a museum with bronze statues of the Clinton 12.
• American Museum of Science and Energy — 15 mi
  The Oak Ridge museum that opened in 1949, when the Manhattan Project city's gates opened, in a town whose Black workers were housed in the Gamble Valley hutments.

More markers nearby

• Sutherland Avenue McGhee Tyson Airport — 2.4 mi
• Cavett's Station — 2.8 mi
• Longstreet's Headquarters — 3.2 mi
• Death of Gen. William P. Sanders — 3.6 mi