L.Q.C. Lamar House

The house nearly did not last. After Lamar passed it to his daughter Fannie Mayes in 1888, it declined, and in 2000 the Mississippi Heritage Trust put it on its Ten Most Endangered list for demolition by neglect. The Oxford-Lafayette County Heritage Foundation bought it in 2004 for $425,000 in state funds. A $1.5 million restoration ran from May 2007 to June 2008, replacing the foundation and roof and clearing invasive plants from the three-acre lot. It had been named a National Historic Landmark in 1975.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oxford Square — 0.4 mi
  The courthouse square laid out in 1837 on land bought from a Chickasaw woman, rebuilt after the 1864 burning and home to Square Books and a memorial to Lafayette County's lynching victims.
• Rowan Oak — 0.9 mi
  William Faulkner's Greek Revival house in Oxford, bought in 1930 and kept by the University of Mississippi, with the outline of A Fable still written on his study wall.
• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 1.2 mi
  The 1848 Greek Revival building at the center of the Ole Miss campus, where federal marshals held off a mob on 30 September 1962 and James Meredith registered the next morning.
• Sardis Lake and Dam — 16 mi
  A flood-control lake on the Little Tallahatchie, built from 1930s labor and a dredge named Pontotoc, with a dam that for years was the largest earth-filled dam in the world.

More markers nearby

• Oxford Blues — 0.4 mi
• St. Peter's (1851), Episcopal — 0.4 mi
• Burns "Belfry" Church — 0.5 mi
• Freedmen Town — 0.5 mi