Dwight and Kate Wade House
Also known as: New York World's Fair House, SV.1201114 Joy St., Sevierville, Tennessee
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Coordinates:
+35.86620, -83.5655735°51'58" N, 83°33'56" W
Quadrangle map:Pigeon Forge
Description
A Colonial Revival style house was designed by Verna Cook Salomonsky, a leading architect from New York City. It is a replica of one from the 1939-40 New York World Fair’s “Town of Tomorrow” exhibit. Its construction in 1940 was led by Fred McMahan (1895-1980), a local black brick mason with an education from Knoxville College and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
National Register information
- Status
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 1997
- Reference number
- 97001502
- NR name
- Wade, Dwight and Kate, House
- Architectural style
- Late 19th and 20th Century Revival: Colonial Revival
- Area of significance
- Architecture
- Level of significance
- Local
- Evaluation criteria
- C - Design/Construction
- Property type
- Building
- Historic function
- Single dwelling
- Current function
- Single dwelling
- Period of significance
- 1925-1949
- Significant year
- 1940
- Number of properties
- Contributing buildings: 1
Non-contributing buildings: 2