Pressmen's Home, Historic district in Hawkins County, Tennessee, US.
Pressmen's Home is a historic district in Hawkins County, eastern Tennessee, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The grounds hold a group of buildings that once formed a self-contained community, including a trade school, a sanitarium, a retirement home, a hotel, a post office, a chapel, and a hydroelectric power plant.
The International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union established its headquarters on this site in 1911 and ran it as a full community for over five decades. When the union moved to Washington D.C. in 1967, the complex changed hands and took on a different purpose.
The Memorial Chapel on the grounds contains stained glass windows made by Louis Comfort Tiffany, dedicated to union members who died in World War I. These windows are among the first things a visitor notices upon entering the building.
The property now operates as a seasonal country club with a restaurant and golf course, while many of the original buildings remain on the grounds. Not all areas may be open to general visitors, so it is worth checking in advance what can be seen.
The complex produced its own electricity through a hydroelectric plant well before the Tennessee Valley Authority brought power to the surrounding area. This made it one of the few communities in the region with reliable electricity at the time.
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