page_title: Mary Boyce Temple
section_title: Mary Boyce Temple House
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Boyce Temple / Mary Boyce Temple House
caption_attribution_description: English: The Mary Boyce Temple House at the corner of Henley Street and Hill Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Built in 1907, the house was originally occupied by the Chambliss family. Mary Boyce Temple (1856–1929), a prominent Knoxville feminist, philanthropist, and socialite, lived in the house from 1922 until her death in 1929. The house has recently undergone restoration efforts with the help of the city and architect Brian Pittman.
context_page_description: Mary Boyce Temple was an American philanthropist and socialite, active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the first president of the Ossoli Circle, the oldest federated women's club in the South, and published a biography of the club's namesake, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, in 1886. She also cofounded the Tennessee Woman's Press and Author's Club, the Knoxville Writer's Club, and the Knox County chapter of the League of Women Voters. She represented Tennessee at various international events, including the Paris Exposition of 1900 and at the dedication of the Panama Canal in 1903.
  Temple was the founder and long-time regent of the Bonny Kate Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and helped launch Knoxville's preservationist movement with her efforts to save Blount Mansion in the 1920s. In her later years, she donated tens of thousands of dollars to the University of Tennessee for agricultural research, and left the bulk of her estate to the university after her death.
context_section_description: The Mary Boyce Temple House, located at 623 Hill Avenue in Knoxville, is the last single-family residence in the city's downtown area.  This house was built in 1907, and originally occupied by the Chambliss family.  Temple, who had lived for many years with her father in a house built around 1830 by William Park at the corner of Market Street and Cumberland (no longer standing), bought the house now named for her in 1922, and died in the house in 1929.  After a series of ownership changes and modifications over the decades, the house, threatened with demolition, was purchased in 2006 by Brian Pittman, who has since taken steps to renovate and restore it.
  The two-story house exhibits design elements of Queen Anne and Tudor Revival styles.  It retains its original exterior brick, iron, and woodwork, as well as many of its original interior elements, including an oak staircase.  The main floor consists of a foyer, parlor, dining room, kitchen, pantry, office, and powder room, while the second floor includes three bedrooms, a nursery, and bathrooms.  The house includes a Colonial Revival style porch, bay windows in the parlor and master bedroom, and three chimneys.
  In October 2010, the Southern Paranormal and Anomaly Research Society (SPARS) conducted a paranormal investigation of the house in response to reports of paranormal activity by restoration workers.
caption: The Mary Boyce Temple House
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