The Spencer Buford House is a property in

Thompsons Station, Tennessee Thompson's Station is a town in Williamson County, Tennessee. The population has grown from 2,194 at the 2010 Census to 7,485 in the 2020 Census. Several locations in Thompson's Station listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places inclu ...

, United States, that was listed on the

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in 1988. The main house was built about 1813. The property is also known as Roderick, in honor of the horse Roderick, a favorite horse of Confederate cavalry and irregular forces

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. It was a two-story brick side Side passage plan farmhouse built c.1820. It is unusual in Williamson County for the side passage plan. Its "doorway displays excellent

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detailing." With . It was built of bricks made by slaves in kiln on the farm. Besides the house the property included one non-contributing building. The listing was for an area of . The property was covered in a 1988 study of Williamson County historical resources. In November 2015 the house was evaluated as having lost its historic integrity, because it had been altered with "unsympathetic" additions that subsumed much of the original house, and yet lost the interior details in the original portion retained. It was removed from the National Register in 2015.

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Roderick Place
Federal architecture in Tennessee Former National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Houses completed in 1820 Houses in Williamson County, Tennessee Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Side passage plan architecture in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee {{WilliamsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub