Island Home Park, Knoxville

Island Home Park Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Bounded by Island Home Boulevard, Fisher and Spence places, and Maplewood Knoxville, Tennessee
Coordinates	35°57′32.84″N 83°52′52.15″W / 35.9591222°N 83.8811528°W / 35.9591222; -83.8811528
Area	approximately 53 acres (21 ha)[1]
Built	1899–1940
Architect	multiple
Architectural style	Bungalow/Craftsman, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, Minimal Traditional
NRHP reference No.	94001260
Added to NRHP	November 10, 1994

Island Home Park is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located in the southeastern part of the city along the Tennessee River. Developed as a streetcar suburb in the early 1900s, the neighborhood retains most of its original houses and streetscapes, and is home to the city's largest concentration of Bungalow-style houses.^[1] In 1994, several dozen houses in Island Home Park were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Island Home Park Historic District.

What is now Island Home Park was originally part of a farm, named "Island Home," established by Knoxville businessman and philanthropist Perez Dickinson (1813–1901) in the 1870s. The completion of the Gay Street Bridge in 1898 led to the commercial and residential development of the South Knoxville area, and the Island Home Park neighborhood was established the following year. For much of its early existence, Island Home Park was home to a number of professionals and managers involved in Knoxville's wholesaling trade and other industries.

The campus of the Tennessee School for the Deaf developed adjacent to Island Home Park in the 1920s,^[2] and the Knoxville Downtown Island Airport developed on Dickinson's Island adjacent to the neighborhood during the 1930s.