Lustrat House
Built in 1847 as a faculty residence on the University of Georgia's North Campus, the Lustrat House has served as a house museum, the university president's office, and today the Office of Legal Affairs. In the late nineteenth century it was home to Dr. Charles Morris, who chaired the English Department; when the university moved the structure around the turn of the century, the embittered professor reportedly refused to relocate with it and died soon after.
Campus lore holds that after Joseph Lustrat's family moved in beginning in 1904, they began seeing Morris seated in his favorite chair by the fire, sometimes a gray mist coalescing into a figure in a Confederate uniform drifting through the rooms. It endures as one of UGA's signature hauntings.
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