Childress House (National Register): 225 North Academy Street

This house was originally built as an I-House with Greek Revival influences in 1847 by contractor Jim Fletcher for James Bivens. In 1874, John Childress remodeled the residence in the Italianate style. Childress was a prominent farmer and a director with the Bank of Tennessee and the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad. His sister Sarah was the wife of President James Knox Polk. Mrs. Polk often visited her family in the Childress House.