Land for a new school was donated by Judge John C. Hamilton in 1848.

Trustees for the Paris Male Academy contracted John Oury on August 30 of that year to construct a brick building fifty feet by thirty-two feet with eighteen inch thick outer walls.

[4] The Robert E. Lee School Association (RELSA), a non-profit organization, took the building over in 2001 and began restoring it with grant money and fundraising efforts.

In 2003, the building became the home to the Robert E. Lee Academy for the Arts.

This article about a property in Henry County, Tennessee on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.