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The James Webb House 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 dates from c.1850 and 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 ...
(NRHP) in 1988. It has also been known as Kirkview Farm. It includes
Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...
and
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...
architecture. When listed the property included two
contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
and one non-contributing structure on an area of . It is one of about thirty fine antebellum brick and frame residences in Williamson County that survive and that were built as centers of slave plantations. It is among several "notable two-story frame residences" built in the eastern part of the county; another is the Samuel B. Lee House of Maplewood Farm. The NRHP eligibility of the property was covered in a 1988 study of Williamson County historical resources.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Houses in Williamson County, Tennessee Greek Revival houses in Tennessee Italianate architecture in Tennessee Houses completed in 1850 National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee {{WilliamsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub