Old North Knoxville
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Old North Knoxville Historic District
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Lou Mar (505 East Scott Avenue), built in 1889
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| Location | Roughly bounded by E. Woodland, Bluff, Armstrong, E. Baxter, and Central Aves. Knoxville, Tennessee |
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| Coordinates | 35°59′13.03″N 83°55′18″W / 35.9869528°N 83.92167°WCoordinates: 35°59′13.03″N 83°55′18″W / 35.9869528°N 83.92167°W |
| Area | 324 acres (131 ha) |
| Built | c. 1883–1940 |
| Architect | George Barber, Charles I. Barber, David Getaz, and multiple others |
| Architectural style | Bungalow/Craftsman, Late Victorian, Late-19th and 20th Century Revivals |
| NRHP Reference # | 92000506 |
| Added to NRHP | May 14, 1992 |
Old North Knoxville is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located just north of the city's downtown area. Initially established as the town of North Knoxville in the late-19th century, the area was a prominent suburb for Knoxville's upper middle and professional classes until the 1950s. After a period of decline, perservationists began restoring many of the neighborhood's houses in the 1980s. In 1992, over 400 houses and secondary structures in the neighborhood were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Old North Knoxville Historic District.
In the years following the Civil War, Knoxville experienced an economic boom that brought about a rapid increase in the city's population. The city gradually expanded northward and westward to accommodate the influx of new residents. The housing boom reached what is now Old North Knoxville in the late 1880s, when it was incorporated as the town of North Knoxville, and continued after its annexation by Knoxville in 1897. The neighborhood's earliest residents included doctors, politicians, and business managers, and some its earliest houses were designed by prominent Knoxville architects, such as George Barber, Charles Barber, and David Getaz. As Knoxville continued expanding northward, most notably with the annexation of Fountain City in 1962, North Knoxville became "Old" North Knoxville.
Old North Knoxville is located just off Broadway (part of U.S. Route 441), about halfway between downtown Knoxville to the south and Sharp's Ridge to the north. The neighborhood straddles a hill that gradually rises from First Creek and descends toward Second Creek. East Scott Avenue traverses the hill's crest, with the slopes gradually descending southward to East Baxter Avenue and northward to East Woodland Avenue, leaving the houses along East Scott approximately 20 to 40 feet higher than other houses in the neighborhood.
The Old North Knoxville Historic District is roughly bounded by East Woodland Avenue to the northwest, Bluff Street to the northeast, Armstrong Avenue to the east, and Central Avenue to the south. Several other historic districts lie in the vicinity, namely Mechanicsville to the southwest, Fourth and Gill to the south, Park City to the east, and North Hills to the northeast.
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