page_title: Thomas Holland House
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Holland House
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture circa: 1960. The house was build by Thomas Holland for his second wife, Sarah Winslow Davidson Woods. It was the center piece of his 2100 acre plantation and considered a frontier mansion. The house was a clapboard clad two story log cabin with a center dogtrot. The dogtrot had wainscoting and chair rails on its walls. The dogtrot was used extensively by the family in the summer months and provided a means to keep the family cool. The house had two interior staircases. The young men of the family lived on one side of the home and the young women and parents lived on the other side. The slave quarters still stood in the 1960s. They were located to the front and west of the home. The cemetery for the enslaved persons was located to the home's northwest not far from the house. The house was destroyed by arson in 1997 after having achieved some notoriety. It was used for the haunted house scenes in Walt Disney Pictures 1995 "Tom and Huck" starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas. The allee of oak trees, which was on the path to the home's south facing facade, was destroyed by a tornado on April 27, 2011. Only a couple of the trees remain. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 91001478 More images
context_page_description: The Thomas Holland House was a historic residence near Hillsboro, Alabama. The house was built around 1836 by Thomas Holland, a South Carolinian who had come to Lawrence County, Alabama, in 1823. Holland began his plantation with 40 acres and built it to over 2100 acres by 1849. The house was a full two-story dogtrot house constructed of logs, one of the only of its type in Alabama. The exterior had since been covered in clapboard, and the breezeway had been finished with vertical boards and a chair rail. Enclosed stairways in each lower room gave access to the upper floor; the central room over the dogtrot was only accessible from the eastern room. The house was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
  The house was destroyed by fire in 1997.
context_section_description: The Thomas Holland House was a historic residence near Hillsboro, Alabama.  The house was built around 1836 by Thomas Holland, a South Carolinian who had come to Lawrence County, Alabama, in 1823.  Holland began his plantation with 40 acres (16 ha) and built it to over 2100 acres (850 ha) by 1849.  The house was a full two-story dogtrot house constructed of logs, one of the only of its type in Alabama.  The exterior had since been covered in clapboard, and the breezeway had been finished with vertical boards and a chair rail.  Enclosed stairways in each lower room gave access to the upper floor; the central room over the dogtrot was only accessible from the eastern room.  The house was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
  The house was destroyed by fire in 1997.
caption: House in a 1960 photo
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