KNOX HERITAGE PRESENTS THE MONTHLY
PRESERVATION NETWORK, JANUARY 12, 2008
Come For A Chance To Win A Free Knox Heritage Patron Membership

Knox Heritage presents the next installment of the monthly series Preservation Network on Saturday, January 12, at 10:00 a.m. Preservation Network is held at the Time Warp Tea Room, 1209 N. Central, in Historic Old North Knoxville. 

Attendees at the Preservation Network can register for a drawing on April 12 that will entitle the winner to a free one-year membership in Knox Heritage at the Patron level. In addition to early notification of Summer Suppers, Patron members are invited to the Annual Patron’s Party, this year on April 17, and receive a free one-year membership in the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This Patron membership can be redeemed by the winner or given as a gift.

The January session of Preservation Network will highlight the life and work of an early-20th-century Knoxville businessman, C.B. Atkin. Born in 1864, Atkin was an important figure in Knoxville’s history, the proprietor of several businesses, including the Fountain City Railway Company. He founded a furniture company that crafted furnishings for some of Knoxville’s finest homes, and he had a business that manufactured fireplace mantles for elegant mansions nationwide. Atkin developed a large portion of the Oakwood and Fountain City suburbs and built two hotels and two theatres in downtown Knoxville.  Knox Heritage research assistant Hollie Cook and Jennifer Montgomery of Coldwell Banker will lead the discussion on C.B. Atkin.

Preservation Network is a series of free workshops held on the second Saturday of every month. Many people have dubbed this the “support group for owners of old homes,” and in many ways this is true. In a relaxed round-table setting with coffee, smoothies, and other goodies, the workshops present trades specialists in windows, flooring, roofing, stained glass, tile, plumbing, electrical, and more.