Theora Hamblett House

Hamblett moved to Oxford after her mother died in 1935 and, in 1939, bought a large house and divided it into four apartments, renting three to students and keeping the fourth. At fifty-five she took an adult education course at the University of Mississippi, then a correspondence course from Connecticut's Famous Artists School, and decided to teach herself. Dealer Betty Parsons bought The Golden Gate in the mid-1950s, and the Museum of Modern Art showed it in 1955 as The Vision. About six hundred of her paintings are in the university museum's archive.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oxford Square — 0.3 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 — 0.5 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 — 0.7 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

• Freedmen Town — steps away
• Burns "Belfry" Church — steps away
• St. Peter's (1851), Episcopal — steps away
• Delta Gamma Fraternity — steps away