Tipton-Haynes Home

Tipton-Haynes Home. . , The Tipton-Haynes home had three major transformations between the late 1700s to the mid-1800s. Colonel John Tipton bought the property in 1784 and built a simple story and a half cabin with a basement kitchen. After his father's death, John Tipton, Jr. sold his home in nearby Blountville, Tennessee and moved his family here. Sometime in the 1820s, he expanded on his father's cabin. The western cabin wall was removed and a two-story extension with a brick chimney turned the cabin into a Federal-style farmhouse. A shed roof porch was added to the front and rear of the house and the half story second floor ceiling was raised. Symmetrical windows were added to the first and second floors., The Tipton, Jr. farmhouse was unchanged when famed graphic artist David Hunter Strother visited Landon Carter Haynes in the mid-1850s. The 1857 Harper's New Monthly Magazine shows the home prior to the Haynes addition of a central Greek Revival front portico which replaced the shed roof porch. Haynes also added white clapboard siding to the house., [Captions:] , Artist Hugh Pruitt's rendition of the Colonel John Tipton cabin., This photograph shows the Tipton Haynes home prior to the 1960s restoration of the site., The 1857 Harper's New Monthly Magazine drawing by David Hunter Strother of the Tipton Haynes property.