Rural Mount is a historic mansion in

Morristown, Tennessee Morristown is a city in and the county seat of Hamblen County, Tennessee, United States. Morristown also extends into Jefferson County on the western and southern ends. The city lies within the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, Ridge and Valley regi ...

, U.S.. It was built with

ashlar Ashlar () is a cut and dressed rock (geology), stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape. The term can also refer to a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ...

stones circa 1799 by frontiersman

Alexander Outlaw Alexander Outlaw (1738–1826) was an American frontiersman and politician, active in the formation and early history of the state of Tennessee. A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, he settled on the Appalachian frontier, in what is ...

for his son-in-law, Joseph Hamilton. It was designed in the Federal architectural style. It has been listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

since July 30, 1975.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Federal architecture in Tennessee Houses completed in 1799 Buildings and structures in Hamblen County, Tennessee 1799 establishments in Tennessee Morristown, Tennessee {{HamblenCountyTN-NRHP-stub