Who was Eugenia Williams? The enigmatic Coca-Cola heiress kept her guard up through life and into death, her privacy as literal as the tall brick wall that kept busybodies from peeking into her Lyons View Pike estate. She left no letters or diaries, and few photos.
There are rumors, of course. It’s Knoxville, after all. Whispers about her divorce from a jet-setting, jazz-age marriage. Speculation of an affair.
Suddenly alone in her mid-30s, Eugenia decided to tear down her family home and build, in its place, something entirely her own. Completed in 1941, it was a sort of vintage Barbie Dreamhouse, complete with all the modern bells and whistles of the time, from a state-of-the-art kitchen to parlors perfect for entertaining. And upstairs, a mirrored boudoir for trying on her latest New York looks, with closets upon closets of impeccably curated fashion…