It and the surrounding grounds were added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 7, 1994, as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.

[1] The house was built by John D. Catlin for his ward, Sarah Altona Terrell, and her husband, William Cade Thompson.

The house was then acquired by Robert and Sarah Billings of Birmingham, wno called it "Magnolia Mound" and used it as a country retreat.

Second-floor windows, reaching nearly to the floor, are fitted inside with curved "baby-catcher" railings to prevent a fatal fall from one of the two upstairs bedrooms.

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