The legislature then met at the First Presbyterian Church, the largest building in town, with the House meeting in the lower floor and the Senate in the expanded gallery.

Present during those legislative sessions where Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, James K. Polk and Davy Crockett.

The Union occupation of Murfreesboro during the Civil War saw the church building used as a hospital, for storage, billeting and as a stable.

The scars of the war experience caused the church to relocate three blocks away to its present location at College and Spring Streets.

A tornado tore through downtown Murfreesboro in April, 1913, doing considerable damage to the Sanctuary, thus a new building, this time in the classic revival style with a dome, was built on the old foundation in 1914.