The Senter-Rooks House, also known as Twin Oaks, is a historic house in

Humboldt, Tennessee Humboldt is a city in Gibson and Madison counties, Tennessee. The population was 8,452 at the 2010 census, a decline of 1,015 from 2000. It is the principal city of and is included in the Humboldt, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area, whic ...

, U.S.. It was the residence of a former mayor of Humboldt. It is listed on the

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History

The house was built in 1860-1866 for J. N. Lanom. With A year after the end of the

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of 1861–1865, in 1866, the house was purchased by Moses E. Senter, who served as Humboldt's mayor from 1866 to 1869. Senter was also the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Humbold until he became a

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in 1873. The house was purchased by Charles Wesley Rooks, a newspaper publisher and state senator, in 1917. He served as the president of the Savings and Loan Association of Humboldt from 1938 to 1946. He lived in the house with his wife, Kate Senter, who was Moses E. Senter's granddaughter. It was owned by their daughter, Bessie Rooks Fitzgerald, from 1946 to 1976, when it was purchased by their grandson, Dr. Charles Couch.

Architectural significance

The house was designed in the Neo-Classical architectural style. It has been listed on the

since July 9, 1980.

References

National Register of Historic Places in Gibson County, Tennessee Neoclassical architecture in Tennessee Houses completed in 1866 {{GibsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub