Magnolia Hall once stood at 808 S. Church Street and is no longer standing. While commercial buildings have popped up all around it, the mansion has stood vacant and boarded up since a fire gutted the interior in the mid 1970s.
First Tennessee bought the property and leveled the mansion for their new bank on S. Church Street.

Magnolia Hall was built circa 1870 by Henry Clay Jackson for him and his wife Marget. He also built the well-known Collier-Crichlow house on East Main Street. The land on which the house was constructed on Church Street had been owned by Joseph A. January, former mayor of Murfreesboro. The structure of the home was "Second Empire" per Caneta Hankins, of the Center for Historic Preservation. At some point after the death of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, the heirs decided to use the property as a rental property.

George Parrish was once a resident of 808 S. Church Street where he lived with his parents. He said he was 13 or 14 when he resided in the home so this would have been the early 1900s. He stated, "I was living in the old three-story brick (counting the basement) at 808 S,. Street," when he wrote and published his own newspaper, the South Street Journal. His editorial office and printing plant were located in what was called the cupola over the front entrance of the old home. He said, "It was as cold as the North Pole in the winter and as hot as the other place in the Summer. It was also the whipping room. Dad tanned my bottom many a day in the little room which there was no escape."

Barry Lamb stated his grandfather, Otis A. Lamb, lived here for a brief period of time when he moved to Murfreesboro from Midland in the early 1920s.

Although the mansion is long gone memories of the home will remain for those that lived there. The Shackletts resided in the home from 1937-1948. Gloria Christy, daughter of Richard and Jenny Shacklett, has never lived there but she has second hand memories from those that did. Gloria said her aunt, Sarah was married in the house. Her mother spent her first night in Murfreesboro in that house. Her aunt and uncle courted in that house.

Manuevers were held near there during the war and the whole house would shake during the night. Magnolia Hall had 21 rooms. It had a summer kitchen and a winter kitchen, and a sleeping porch out back. It had the most beautiful fireplaces.

Jenny Shacklett, who was new to Murfreesboro, remembers the high ceilings and the airness of the home, with a winding staircase. Jenny's husband, Richard, began his photography business by taking photos of people inside the home. Dr. William Shacklett, who remembered the house while attend MTSU, recalls it as a very nice and unique house.

I moved to Tennessee in 1977 and married Walter in 1980. I remember this home very well, and would drive by it and want to live in it!