McGavock-Gatewood-Webb House

The two-story house behind the chain-link fence at 908 Meridian St. is the McGavock-Gatewood-Webb House, built in 1840. Also known as Blue Fountain, ...

The McGavock-Gatewood-Webb House became a National Register of Historic Places listing in 2007. The building is now owned by the church across the street.

James McGavock, the grandson of an Irish immigrant, was given 320 acres of land in the Nashville area by his father, David McGavock. James built a mansion on his land that he called Fountain Blue but died around one year later, in 1841. The property was split into four tracts for James' children; his daughter, Lucinda, inherited the mansion on 94 acres.

Blue Fountain remained unoccupied during the Civil War while Lucinda's husband served in the Union Navy and their son was a Confederate soldier in Knoxville.