Above: Colonel and Mrs. James A. Whiteside. oil on canvas by James Cameron, 1858.
Hunter Museum of Art
Left: Mrs. Penelope Johnson Allen, great-granddaughter of James A. Whiteside (second from left), with committee members for the restoration of the Robert Cravens house, Lookout Mountain, 1955.
Lookout Mountain was part of the John-son family's heritage, estate, and experience, dating to the antebel- lum era. Here Col. Whiteside developed around his Lookout Point a pioneering "auxiliary health suburb" and tourist re-sort, which included a luxury hotel and a turnpike road to connect the summit with the distant city.
Col. Whiteside prematurely died and his son-in-law, A. M. Johnson, developed the St. Elmo suburb at the mountain's foot. But Lookout also developed, in broad and numerous ways, as seen partly in the fifty vintage images below.**Cursor over scrolling images will stop movement.
Johnson House of St. Elmo
in memory of
WILLIAM JOSEPH BURNETTE
1918 - 2007
