title: Thomas J. Murray House
text: # Thomas J. Murray House
  
  Thomas J. Murray House, also known as Rice Place, is a historic home located near Mars Hill, Madison County, North Carolina. It was built about 1894, and is a two-story, three-bay, single-pile frame I-house. It has a side-gabled roof, is set on a rubble stone-pier foundation, and has a full-width shed roofed front porch. Also on the property are the contributing gable-roofed livestock barn and a large gambrel roofed tobacco barn.
  
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
  
  