County of house: Hardeman County
Location of house: SW corner, Bills St. & S. Washington St., Bolivar
Original Owner: John Lea
Current Owner: Rev. Cordell Smith
Built: 1831
Architect: John Lea
"6. Bills House, "The Pillars" (322 South Washington Street): ca. 1831, combination 2
story Federal style brick covered with hip on hip roof and 1% story Greek Revival
cottage with gable roof and entrance with rectangular head and side lights, one
story front porch with fluted Roman Doric columns on brick piers with lattice
fills between piers. One story additions form ell behind two story section.
Outbuildings include 2 story brick schoolhouse with gable roof, one room frame
with weatherboards, servants house with eaves brackets and gable roof, and square,
frame, smokehouse (semi-ruin) with wood siding, pyramid roof covered with wood
shingles.
"....On the grounds of The Pillars are a brick school building, which
served for a time as the town's library; a servant's house, and the ruins of a
distinctive pyramidal roofed smokehouse also survive...." ~ NRHP Nomination Form