Boxwood Plantation was the home of the Elliott family and later the Nevilles, and this small dwelling is the last reminder of that estate. Built in 1854 of slave-made brick and occupied by household servants, it is one of the few brick plantation quarters surviving anywhere in Alabama. The main residence, later razed in the 1950s for the widening of Alabama Highway 20, stood just to the northeast. Brick quarters like this were unusual and suggest the higher status generally accorded to household staff, while its outside door reflects a typical slave-dwelling design found across the southern states and as far north as Maryland and Missouri. At Boxwood, enslaved workers who tilled the surrounding cotton fields lived in log and frame cabins farther to the south. Before the Civil War, Samuel Elliott, Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth, developed a notable country estate there, including the boxwood gardens that gave the plantation its name, and their son, Dr. Jeremiah Pearsall Elliott, inherited Boxwood in 1870. The building later became a lodge for the young men of the family. In 1907, planter William Vinkley Neville purchased Boxwood, and his descendants owned the property until the 1980s. Hidden by later additions, the old slave quarters came to light in 2010 during development of the Mallard Fox West Industrial Complex, after which local volunteers Lisa and Jimmy Lentz removed the additions to expose the original two-room house. The building was then stabilized in consultation with the Alabama Historical Commission and with a small grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 2013 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and support from the Brown-Forman Corporation of Louisville, Ky., and Jack Daniels Cooperages made possible its exterior restoration in 2014-15.