LEE HOUSE
Historic House — 316 Seventh Street North, Columbus, Mississippi
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Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/lee-house-columbus-mississippi/

Historic house in Columbus; research record.

Lee House is a historic house in Columbus, Mississippi. Historic house in Columbus; research record. HauntHunt files it with haunted places. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Stephen D. Lee; wife. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.

The Lee House is the Italianate mansion the Lees inherited — the 1847 brick home Major Thomas Blewett built on his Columbus square, where Confederate officers stayed during the war and where Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee married the daughter of the house in February 1865, convalescing from the wound he took at Spring Hill. Lee became the first president of the college that is now Mississippi State; the house became the city's high school's home-economics building and cafeteria.
The fire of 1959 took the school and nearly the mansion; the preservationists took it instead, restored it in 1960, and made it the Florence McLeod Hazard Museum. Taft had a reception in it in 1909. The cast-iron gallery and the Greek Revival brick are what's left of the block the Blewetts built — the house that was a home, a school, and a museum, in that order.
The file keeps the Lee House: the 1847 mansion, the wartime wedding, the college president, the cafeteria years, and the rescue after the fire.
The Lee House is the archive's Columbus file — the Blewett mansion, the Lee marriage, and the school fire that almost took it.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Lee House is the archive's Columbus file — the 1847 Italianate, the Confederate wedding, and the fire that led to the museum.
A mansion that was a cafeteria keeps its gallery — the file's suggestion being that the Lee House's hold is the reuse: the home that became a school and nearly burned with it, and the rooms that were saved for the story.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: The guide recounts apparitions attributed to Stephen Lee and his wife. Witnesses name it Stephen D. Lee; wife; the name travels further than the proof. Lee House wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi (https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi — Southern Spirit Guide
  https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/

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