{"id":810,"date":"2025-12-24T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=810"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:29:07","slug":"brief-history-of-some-of-the-oldest-houses-in-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/brief-history-of-some-of-the-oldest-houses-in-kingston\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief History of some of the Oldest Houses in Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(from the archived <em>RCHC Web site<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em>The Harriman Record<\/em>, Thursday, 2 Nov 1916, Vol. 51, No. 16.<\/p>\n<p>The brick house where <strong>L. B. A. Johnson<\/strong> now lives on Third or Kentucky street, in Kingston, Tenn. was built in 1839 by <strong>Henry Liggett<\/strong> and was run by him as a hotel until he died in 1862.&nbsp; After his death his widow ran it as a hotel until she died some six or eight years later.&nbsp; At the death of Mrs. <strong>Liggett<\/strong> the property was sold and bought by <strong>Isham Fritts<\/strong>, whose heirs still own it.<\/p>\n<p>The house where <strong>Andrew Johnson<\/strong> now lives was owned by <strong>Henry Liggett<\/strong> and used for a merchantile <em>[sic]<\/em> house during his life and is probably more than one hundred years old.<\/p>\n<p>The Exchange Hotel, now owned by <strong>T. F. Ingram<\/strong>, was built in 1848 by <strong>John W. Wester<\/strong> and used by him as a hotel until about 1865.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>The house where the <strong>Martin<\/strong> Girls now live was built by old <strong>Dr. Jordan<\/strong>, was owned by the <strong>Gilpin<\/strong>s, afterward bought by <strong>Joseph Martin<\/strong> and later by the late <strong>Hugh Martin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the archived RCHC Web site) Source: The Harriman Record, Thursday, 2 Nov 1916, Vol. 51, No. 16. The brick house where L. B. A. Johnson now lives on Third or Kentucky street, in Kingston, Tenn. was built in 1839 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/brief-history-of-some-of-the-oldest-houses-in-kingston\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,42,13,36,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-business-industry","category-communities","category-historic-sites","category-migration-settlement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}