United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794Owens, Hubert B.1962-05Located 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.image/jpeghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Lilley, EdwardDemorest, DavidOliver, C. G.Williams familyUniversity of GeorgiaGreek Revival (Architecture)EuropeanStoneRockWood (plant material)HousesDwellingsUniversitiesSchoolsArchitecture--Georgia--AthensArchitecture--Georgia--Clarke CountyLumpkin, Wilson, 1783-1870--Homes and hauntsCompton, Martha Atlanta Lumpkin--Homes and hauntsGovernor Wilson Lumpkin House (Athens, Ga.)Rock House (Athens, Ga.)StillImage