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 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 ...

in 1982. At one time Triune had five private schools, including a Porter Female Academy that was destroyed in 1863 in the

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. 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

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style of architecture. The listing was for an area of with just one

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. 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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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 {{WilliamsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub