Hopecote House

Designer: Diane Wick

Embroiderer: Melinda Davis

Year Created: 1982

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Located at 1820 Melrose Avenue, this English cottage on the UT Campus
was designed by the nationally acclaimed architect, John Fanz Staub.
Completed in 1924, the house was designed to emulate the refined simplicity
of the cottage architecture of the Cotswold District of England,
and all the flowers in the garden were white. Hopecote won a special
award in House Beautiful’s first competition in 1925 and is listed on the
National Register of Historic Houses. The University of Tennessee uses
the cottage as a guest house.