The Holston Baptist Female Institute was built in 1854. It later became both the Tadlock’s School for Boys and then the Holston Male Institute. After the Civil War, Yardley Warner purchased the building and established the Warner Institute to educate and train former slaves and their children. It’s also said that this building was used as a hospital during the Civil War. It was continuously in use as an educational building until 1910 when it was sold for the first time as a private residence. It’s considered Italianate with a Colonial Revival porch that was added in the early 1910s.
