T.R.R. Cobb House
Built around 1834 as a modest "Plantation Plain" house, this home was an 1844 wedding gift to Confederate Constitution author Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb and his wife Marion Lumpkin, gaining its octagonal wings and Doric portico by 1852. After Cobb died at Fredericksburg in 1862, it served as a fraternity house, boarding house, and church rectory, moved to Stone Mountain in 1985, and returned to Athens for restoration as a museum in 2005.
The oldest haunting, recorded by the WPA Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, describes "a gentleman wearing a gay dressing gown" who descends the stairs and settles before the drawing room fire. Staff and visitors since report footsteps, laughter in empty rooms, and a voice shushing in Cobb's former bedroom, but the dressing-gowned gentleman endures.
📍 175 Hill Street, Athens, GA 30601, Athens, GA · Get directions