01/15/2023
Historic homes walk in Oxford, MS.
Next time you are in town, pull up this post and look up the history.
Information taken for Oxford visitors center at 1013 East Jackson Avenue.
House 1. Ammadell, ca. 1859.
637 north Lamar
Built for planter Thomas Pegues as the costliest house in the county, the construction began in 1859. It is prime example of the architectural talents of Calvert Vaux, who later worked with Frederick Law Olmsted to design Central Park in New York. It can be seen in the 1960 movie Home from the Hill.
House 2. Longstreet-Carter-Cobb house. Ca. 1865. 634 North Lamar.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, second Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, built this home. It was connected by a pathway to the house of his son-in-law, renowned statesman L.Q.C. Lamar.
In 1910 David and Minnie Carter enlarged the house by adding a second story, the large columned porch, and the red brick veneer. This home was used as a library in the 1992 Touchstone film The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag.
House 3. Morgan-Mclure house. Ca. 1850s. 611 North Lamar.
Another part of the Alexander Pegues Estate. An original structure as early as 1852 was occupied by S.E. Ragland and wife. Bought in 1970 and improved by George Morgan, who with his daughter Bonnie McClure raised families there during 20th century.
House 4. Howry-Hill-Sultan house “ Fiddlers folly”. 1878. 520 North Lamar.
In 1875, Charles Howry, prominent attorney, commissioned prestigious architect James Stewart to design the elegant Italianate house using pre-cut materials and assembled on site. Later owners with an impressive violin collection named it Fiddler's Folly on the occasion of Oxford's first pilgrimage in 1962.
House 5. Pegues-Myers house.
Ca. 1876. 535 North Lamar.
The original part of this Victorian cottage was built by Samuel
WE. Pegues for his wife, Eliza Dobyns, on land inherited from his father, Alexander H. Pegues, one of Oxford's most prominent land owners. The present structure was completed in the late 1890s by Charles Myers, a local businessman.
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