The Beverly Toon House is a property in

Franklin, Tennessee Franklin is a city in and county seat of Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. About south of Nashville, it is one of the principal cities of the Nashville metropolitan area and Middle Tennessee. As of 2020, its population was 83,454 ...

, United States, that was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1988. It has also been known as Riverside. It dates from c. 1857. A 1988 study of Williamson County historical resources assessed that this house was one of the "best two-story vernacular

I-House The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk archit ...

examples" in the county. The others highly rated were the William King House, the

Alpheus Truett House The Apheus Truett House is a frame house located at 228 Franklin Road in Franklin, Tennessee, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1988. Built in 1846, it is a notable example of a two-story vernacular I-house st ...

, the Thomas Brown House, the Claiborne Kinnard House, and the Stokely Davis House.

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Central-passage houses in Tennessee Greek Revival houses in Tennessee Houses completed in 1857 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Houses in Franklin, Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee 1857 establishments in Tennessee {{WilliamsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub