Bobo Hotel

The hotel was built in 1867 for Dr. E Y. Salmon, a physician who served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861–1865.[2] The second floor served as the Moore County courthouse from 1872 to 1880, while Salmon was county clerk/master.[2] Salmon became a Freemason, and he later moved to Nashville, where he died in 1914.[2]

From 1908 to 1982, the hotel belonged to Jack and Mary Evans Bobo, who ran it as a boarding house.[2] The husband died in 1948, and the wife became the sole proprietor.[3] One of her tenants was Tom Motlow, whose uncle was the eponymous founder of Jack Daniel's, the whiskey distillery.[2] Her own brother-in-law, Lem Motlow, was an heir to Jack Daniel's and a state representative.[3] However, Bobo refused to serve whiskey in her boarding house.[3] She died in 1983, at age 101.[3]

The building was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style.[2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 7, 1994.[1]

• Bobo, Mary (1994). Mitchamore, Pat; Tolley, Lynne (eds.). Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House Cookbook: A Celebration of Traditional Southern Dishes That Made Miss Mary Bobo's an American Legend. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson. ISBN 9781558533141. OCLC 862972624.