Spencer Buford House Explained

Spencer Buford House
Coordinates:35.8089°N -86.8972°W
Built:c. 1820
Added:April 13, 1988
Delisted:November 19, 2015
Area:6.4acres
Mpsub:Williamson County MRA
Refnum:88000346

The Spencer Buford House is a property in Thompsons Station, Tennessee, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The main house was built about 1813. The property is also known as Roderick, in honor of the horse Roderick, a favorite horse of Confederate cavalry and irregular forces Nathan Bedford Forrest.

It was a two-story brick side Side passage plan farmhouse built c.1820. It is unusual in Williamson County for the side passage plan. Its "doorway displays excellent Federal detailing."[1] It was built of bricks made by slaves in kiln on the farm.

Besides the house the property included one non-contributing building. The listing was for an area of .

The property was covered in a 1988 study of Williamson County historical resources.[2]

In November 2015 the house was evaluated as having lost its historic integrity, because it had been altered with "unsympathetic" additions that subsumed much of the original house, and yet lost the interior details in the original portion retained.[3]

It was removed from the National Register in 2015.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=88000346}} Historic Resources of Williamson County: Spencer Buford House (WM-732) ]. National Park Service. Thomason Associates and Tennessee Historical Commission . February 1988 . April 8, 2018. With .
  2. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=64500624}} Historic Resources of Williamson County (Partial Inventory of Historic and Architectural Properties), National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination ]. National Park Service.
  3. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Evaluation/Return Sheet . November 19, 2015.
  4. Web site: Removed . 2015.