Trigg-Doyle-Falkner House
- Jay Brothers
- May 4
- 2 min read
910 Buchanan Ave. Oxford, MS
Circa 1855.
James G. Trigg built this historic home. A Kentucky native, he started Oxford’s first "clothes-only" store on the Oxford Square in 1847.
Trigg sold the home in 1861 to Robert E. Doyle. He was a local grocer and commission merchant. About 1970, Victorian columns and ornate trim were added.
In 1887, it was bought by Wm. Faulkner’s grandfather, John Wesley Thompson (J.W.T.) Falkner (1848-1922), a local attorney and Sallie McAlpin Murray Falkner (1850-1906)(m.1869). He and Sallie lived there until 1900 when he built a new home. The new 2 story home was located at South Lamar and University Ave. - where McPhail’s Chevron Station exits today - and was called “The Big Place” by the family. In 1902, J.W.T. Falkner sold the railroad his father had started.
His son, Murry Cuthbert Falkner (1870-1932), had worked with the railroad in Ripley, and after the sale, moved with his family to Oxford and purchased the T-D-F Home with Maud Butler Falkner (1871-1960. They wed in 1896.
In 1905, Murray swapped homes with local merchant, John B. Brown, and moved his family there - which was close to “The Big Place.” The home was near where the Kangaroo Pouch is located.
The widower John Benjamin Brown (1867-1951) and Annie Jones Chandler Brown (1877-1964) were married in 1908. His first wife was Grace Barry Brown (1871-1908) (1900) . Annie’s parents were Josiah and Lucretia Chandler of Thompson-Chandler House/ Magnolia Grove/ Hamilton Hill. John and Ann had no family. The T-D-F Home front yard is enormous and served as a playing field for the Brown family and the neighborhood children and was known as the Oxford Park. In 1960, the City of Oxford created an official public park - Avent Park. See Thompson-Chandler House
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