Taken probably in the late 70s.  This was Oak Hill Mansion, built sometime between 1815 and 1840 or so.  It was owned by the Lynn family, who were wealthy merchants and landowners (think “Lynn Garden”), who decamped to Knoxville in 1883.  In later times, this building was a private men’s club, hospital (the first public hospital in Kingsport, according to Muriel Spoden’s “Historic Sites in Sullivan County” ), a nightclub, and, for ages, an apartment building.  I drew this building in pencil back in the late 70s (I took this picture during the original photo shoot…the picture I took after climbing in a tree on the opposite side of the road was the one I used for my reference shot) (no, I climbed in the tree to get a better shot of the front of the building).  I put a vague suggestion of a person looking out of the upper left front window.  I was like that then…

At the time I drew this, only the facade remained of this building.  It had been burned out.  This is still on Broad Street and home to Anchor Antiques.

This was how the entrance to the old Kingsport Power Company building looked like in the late 70s.  I was told that the boss of Kingsport Power at the time considered buying this, but he didn’t like the way I did the trees in front.

This was located on the Glen Bruce Park side of the former Kingsport Power Company building, on the corner near Shelby Street.  When this building was, um, gentrified a few years ago, this whole end portion was eliminated.