Longstreet-Carter-Cobb House: An Educator's Home
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634 N. Lamar Ave. Oxford, MS
Circa 1865.Original single story frame home/ remodeled to a 2.5 story Neoclassic
The home was built by August Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870) and Frances"Minnie" Eliza Parke Longstreet (1799-1869). Longstreet was a lawyer, judge, publisher, Methodist minister and a prominent educator in the South: twice the Chancellor of the Univ. of Mississippi; president of South Carolina College (now Univ. of South Carolina); and president of Emory College (now Emory Univ.). Their daughter wed L.Q.C. Lamar.
It was originally a one story frame home - similar to the Lamar house. The Longstreet family had vacated Oxford during the Civil War and resided elsewhere in Mississippi and in Georgia where the Lamar family lived. Longstreet also gained fame with his writings, Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents in the First Half Century of the Republic (1835).
In 1910, the Longstreet heirs sold the property to David T. Carter (1854-1908) and Minnie A. Wohlleben Carter (18654-1941). Her father was Herman "Old Bully" Wohlleben. They enlarged the home with a 2nd story and red brick. As a University of Mississippi student, Minnie helped return the Alpha Psi chapter to Ole Miss and become the first sorority to live in its own house - thus named the Memorial House.
Then Eba Charles Cobb (1893-1967) and Scottye Carline Roberts Cobb (1900-1983) in 1964.
In 1986, Dr. Walker Swaney and Sara L. Swaney owned the Longstreet home. He has been a dentist half a century and owns Oxford Dental. See Lamar Home
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