{"id":470,"date":"2009-03-29T17:12:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T00:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/?p=470"},"modified":"2018-02-13T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:27:53","slug":"robert-daniel-house-by-fitzgibbon-in-knoxville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2009\/03\/29\/robert-daniel-house-by-fitzgibbon-in-knoxville\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Daniel House by Fitzgibbon in Knoxville"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We had the pleasure of visiting with the owners of the Robert Daniel house here in Knoxville. The house was designed and built by\u00c2\u00a0James Fitzgibbon <\/a>in 1950. I won’t bore you too much with words. The house is incredible. The owners say they regulalrly find architects at their door dropping by to see Fitzgibbon’s master work. Often they are old friends of his.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The rock is all local from the Candora Marble company<\/a>, which supplied a lot of what you seein Washington DC.<\/p>\n

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The lucite triangle coming out of the roof is where a tree used to grow.<\/p>\n

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Upper deck area\u00c2\u00a0that used to be a childrens play area.<\/p>\n

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Above to the left is where the master bedroom is.<\/p>\n

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Through the bookcase you can see the step down to a study. Bedroom above.<\/p>\n

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Looks out to a gardwn and fountain area.<\/p>\n

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We had the pleasure of visiting with the owners of the Robert Daniel house here in Knoxville. The house was designed and built by\u00c2\u00a0James Fitzgibbon in 1950. I won’t bore Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[550,450,19,539,540,541],"tags":[587,589,588,701,249,586,254],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-retro-goodies-2","category-architecture","category-knoxville","category-retro-goodies","category-retro-preservation","category-vintage-places","tag-architechture","tag-fitzgibbon","tag-house","tag-knoxville","tag-mid-century","tag-mid-century-modern","tag-modern"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tn_daniel-house-0151-2.jpg?fit=500%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-7A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":277,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2007\/07\/15\/knoxville-modern-lustron-home-extrordinaire\/","url_meta":{"origin":470,"position":0},"title":"Knoxville Modern Lustron Home Extraordinaire","author":"Swanky","date":"July 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the Sputnik mailbox! 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