The Bostick Female Academy, also known as Triune School, is a property in
Triune, Tennessee
Triune is an unincorporated community in eastern Williamson County, Tennessee, approximately halfway between Franklin and Murfreesboro. The community is located along the Wilson Branch of the Harpeth River. The intersection of former local roads ...
that was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
At one time Triune had five private schools, including a Porter Female Academy that was destroyed in 1863 in the
American Civil War. On the board of the Porter Female Academy was a Dr. Jonathan Bostick, a planter who later bequeathed funds to establish a female academy in Tennessee. This was to replace the Porter Academy. Following delays due to litigation of Bostick's will, the Bostick Female Academy was built and opened in 1892.
The school building was designed in a Late Victorian style of architecture. The listing was for an area of with just one contributing building.[
The building is an L-shaped building built in c.1892.][ with ]
The building operated as a private school until about 1900, then as a public school until 1957. Since then it has been used as a private home.[
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Flickr pic of historic plaque
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
Buildings and structures in Williamson County, Tennessee
School buildings completed in 1892
Female seminaries in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee
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