Boxwood (Murfreesboro, Tennessee)

	Boxwood
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The plantation house
Nearest city	Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Coordinates	35°48′37″N 86°27′9″W / 35.81028°N 86.45250°W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Architectural style	Greek Revival, vernacular Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	84000139
Added to NRHP	October 25, 1984

Boxwood, also known as the Thomas J.B. Turner House, is an antebellum plantation house in southwestern Rutherford County, Tennessee, near Murfreesboro in the historic Salem community.

The house was built by Thomas J. B. Turner and his wife, Sarah Jetton Turner, and completed in 1843.^[2] It is a two-story brick house built on an I-house plan. Greek Revival architectural influences characteristic of antebellum architecture are evident in its design, which features a divided pedimented portico with square Doric columns and a balustrade.^[2] The name of the house derives from the boxwood plantings on the grounds, which are said to have originated with plants that Turner brought to Tennessee in a powder horn.^[2]

The Union Army occupied Boxwood during the Civil War.^[2]

Boxwood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Boxwood Plantation Opening Doors to History for APTA fundraiser". The Tennessean. July 14, 2014. Archived from the original on August 3, 2014.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[apta-2] "Boxwood Plantation Opening Doors to History for APTA fundraiser". The Tennessean. July 14, 2014. Archived from the original on August 3, 2014.

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