Ventress Hall

The Memphis architect C. G. Rosenplanter designed the building with its four-story turret. Inside the turret, student graffiti began during the law school years, topped by the name and unit of a Civil War veteran from Arkansas, and the 1990s restoration kept it. Over the main staircase, a Tiffany window honors the University Greys, a Confederate company of students whose members were all killed, wounded or captured. Delta Gamma and the alumni association sponsored it for a contract price of $500, around 1890. A plaque added in 2018 puts the window in context.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — steps away
  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.
• Rowan Oak — 0.7 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.
• Oxford Square — 0.9 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.
• Sardis Lake and Dam — 15 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

• Barnard Observatory — steps away
• Documenting the Blues — steps away
• "Dead House" — steps away
• Hilgard Cut — 0.2 mi