Victorian Village ‘outcast’ makes a comeback
Construction crews raise the last pillar on the façade of the Pillow-McIntyre House, a two-story Greek Revival home in Victorian Village July 16, 2020. Built by C.G. Richardson in 1847, the house was purchased by Confederate General Gideon Pillow in 1873 and sold to Peter McIntyre, founder of the first glucose refinery in Memphis. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The restored columns of the circa 1840s Pillow-McIntyre House at Adams and Orleans were reinstalled last week, signalling at turn in fortunes for a sometimes forgotten house with some secrets.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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