- Collection:
- Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library
- Title:
- Governor Wilson Lumpkin House (Athens, Ga.)
- Creator:
- Owens, Hubert B.
- Date of Original:
- 1962-05
- Subject:
- Lilley, Edward
Demorest, David
Oliver, C. G.
Williams family
University of Georgia
Greek Revival (Architecture)
European
Stone
Rock
Wood (plant material)
Houses
Dwellings
Universities
Schools
Architecture--Georgia--Athens
Architecture--Georgia--Clarke County
Lumpkin, Wilson, 1783-1870--Homes and haunts
Compton, Martha Atlanta Lumpkin--Homes and haunts - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Located at: Cedar Street, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
Two story stone house on a basement with walls two feet thick. Built at the top of Cedar Hill in what is now the middle of the University of Georgia campus, the house looks northward over the Tanyard Creek ravine, and today's Sanford Stadium. The plan of the house is two-over-two rooms with a central hall. The stone used to build the house was collected around the property and cut and dressed on site. On the north elevation a steep flight of stone steps leads to a small one-story porch with simple wooden post supports. Greek Revival influence is visible in the transom and sidelights which accent the central entrance. Above the doorway is an adaptation of a Palladian window, featuring the traditional sidelights but omitting the light above the center window. The other windows have stone lintels. Wilson Lumpkin, who was Indian Commissioner, Congressman, and Governor of Georgia, purchased the first parcel of what became an almost 1000-acre plantation south of Athens on the "road to Watkinsville." By 1842 his farm was within the city limits. He designed his residence to resemble the old millhouse at Cedar Shoals, and hired Edward Lilley of Ireland to do the stonework, David Demorest of New Jersey for the woodwork, C. G. Oliver of England for the painting, and a Mr. Williams of New York City for the plastering. Construction lasted fromm 1842 to 1844. Governor Lumpkin was the older brother of Joseph Henry Lumpkin and the father of Martha Atlanta Lumpkin Compton, for whom a strategic junction on the Western and Atlantic Railroad was first named Marthasville and later Atlanta. When his daughter inherited the plantation, she gradually sold off acreage to the university as it expanded southward. When the university purchased the remaining acreage including the house in 1907, she insisted on a provision that the house be kept intact or the property would revert to her heirs. This protective clause insured the preservation of the dwelling, which has been used as a classroom, branch library, computer center, and headquarters for the Institute of Ecology. The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences' academic unit of the Cooperative Extension Service currently occupies the building.
Slide annotated: "Lumpkin Hall, Ag. Hill, U. of Ga."
Date of structure: 1844. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0664
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0664#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0664/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of image], Hubert B. Owens Collection, Box 28, Owens Library, School of Environment and Design, The University of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 slide : color
- Holding Institution:
- Owens Library
- Rights:
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