Chattanooga
Mayor’s Mansion Inn
The 1889 house of Edmond G. Watkins, elected mayor in 1897, which the inn says was built from the stones of Fort Wood, a Union Army redoubt.
- Built
- 1889Built 1889 as the home of Edmond G. Watkins, later mayor of Chattanooga; now an 11-room B&B.
- Style
- Victorian Romanesque
- Type
- B&B
- Rooms
- 11
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district
The story
Edmond G. Watkins built the three-story Victorian Romanesque house in 1889, and the inn says it was built from stones of Fort Wood, a Union Army redoubt. Watkins became president of the Lookout Mountain Land Company and the Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain Railway Company and was elected mayor in 1897. In 1901 the house was bought by Edward Gould Richmond, first president of the Chattanooga Library. The interior has hand-laid parquet floors in five woods and 14 gables.
Good to know
- Breakfast: included
- Address: 801 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN 37403
Sources (2)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.