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Joseph Henry Lumpkin House

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In 1906, as the city of Athens expanded and land within the city limits became more dear, the house was placed on rollers and moved "several hundred feet" closer to Prince Avenue. Beginning in the early 1900s and for several decades thereafter, the house served as the home of the Athens Women's Club.
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Built in the 1830s by Charles H. McKinley, the house was originally a much smaller structure. Lumpkin purchased the home around 1842, and in 1850 undertook extensive renovations, when the house was nearly doubled in size. The renovations included a new front, constructed in the historic
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style, which was altered to face south from the original west facing orientation. At that time, the house sat nearly 400 feet back from Prince Avenue. Lumpkin resided in the home until his death in 1867. After Lumpkin, the house was the site of
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The Club donated the house to the Joseph Henry Lumpkin Foundation in 1975. The structure subsequently underwent substantial renovations to both the exterior and interior.
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The University of Georgia School of Law had the building renovated for its Institute of Continuing Legal Education; it reopened in 1984.
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was built in the 1830s, and purchased by its namesake, the
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Home of Joseph Henry Lumpkin Georgia’s First Chief Justice
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Joseph Henry Lumpkin House
map of the State of Georgia
map of the State of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
33°57′38″N 83°22′57″W / 33.96056°N 83.38250°W / 33.96056; -83.38250
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first chief justice
Georgia Supreme Court
Greek Revival
Madame Sosnowski
Athens, Georgia
Historical Marker
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service








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