title: Thomas R. Pierce House
text: # Thomas R. Pierce House
  
  The Thomas R. Pierce House (also known as the Pierce Hotel) is a historic house in Bushnell, Florida. It is locally significant as an outstanding example of vernacular architecture, and the only historic hotel or boarding house from this period remaining in Bushnell.
  
  ## Description and history
  
  The vernacular house was built around 1888 and originally functioned as the family home of Thomas R. Pierce, his wife Fannie Pierce, and their four children. It also accommodated more persons and served as a boarding house.
  
  It is a two-story irregularly planned house resting upon stone piers. The house was restored during 1990–94. At the time of its listing it was operated as a bed and breakfast
  
  On February 16, 1996, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
  
  