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Buildings and structures at the University of Mississippi (13 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Oxford, Mississippi" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Oxford Courthouse Square Historic District is a historic district located in Oxford, Mississippi, which is the county seat of Lafayette County.The district has existed since the city's incorporation in 1837, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 2, 1980.
The building was originally the only academic structure of the university, containing a lecture hall, several lecture rooms, the faculty offices, a geological museum, and the university library. [3] It was designed by famed southern architect William Nichols. Today, the Lyceum remains the oldest building on the university campus.
The campus' center is "The Circle", which consists of eight academic buildings organized around an ovaloid common. [14] The Lyceum was the first building built on the Oxford campus and was expanded with two wings in 1903. The university claims that the Lyceum's bell is the oldest academic bell in the United States. [15]
Funding for the museum came from the generosity of her family, the Adair Skipwiths, and government programs such as the Works Progress Administration. The museum was renamed the Mary Buie Museum in her honor from 1942 until 1997. Oxford operated the original museum from 1939 through 1974, before deeding it to the University of Mississippi. [1]
Ammadelle is a historic house at 637 North Lamar Boulevard in Oxford, Mississippi. Built in 1859, it is an Italianate mansion designed by Calvert Vaux , which he regarded as one of his finest works. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974.
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Rowan Oak was the home of author William Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi. It is a primitive Greek Revival house built in the 1840s by Colonel Robert Sheegog, an Irish immigrant planter from Tennessee. Faulkner purchased the house when it was in disrepair in 1930 and did many of the renovations himself. Other renovations were done in the 1950s.