The grounds of the 3,324-square-foot home include a tennis court, swimming pool, garden, and barns for livestock, the Daily Express reported.
In an interview published in the 2017 book “Dolly on Dolly,” Parton said that she and Dean would take pictures of Southern mansions in Mississippi on their annual anniversary trip and note features they wanted to incorporate into their eventual dream home.
“I knew that house before it was built and I built it long before we could afford it ’cause I knew we’d be able to — someday,” she wrote, according to an excerpt published in The New York Post. “I scouted all over Tennessee for a piece of land with hills in front and a stream around it.
The book continued: “It’s got a bitty bridge, and I made sure it’s just narrow enough so’s no tour bus can git over it. Carl and me can walk around stark naked there and nobody’d see. We have chickens and cows and a vegetable garden. It’s a quiet, homey place for me and the special people in my life.”
It’s a far cry from her roots: Parton grew up in a two-room log cabin with her parents and 11 siblings in Sevierville. The cabin had no electricity or running water, but Parton remembered her years there fondly in her 1973 song “My Tennessee Mountain Home.”
Dollywood features a replica of her childhood home built by her brother, Bobby, and furnished by her mother, Avie Lee.
