This house was built for W.S. Arnold, professor of Geology and Chemistry, in 1887. Ownership then passed to Mrs. Henry Edward Young of Charleston out of Arthur Middleton Rutledge Family. From 1901-1907 the Dean of the Law school lived here, Captain Albert McNeal. Bought for $7,000 by Edmund Kirby- Smith oldest son of The General in 1907 The Kirby-Smiths sold it and moved to Mexico to manage family silver mines for a few years. Mr. & Mrs. Grover Sykes with ties to the coal industry in Grundy County owned it.
In 1924 Ms. Marie Truslow and Miss Charlotte St. John Elliott ( a Granddaughter of Bishop Elliott of Georgia one of the Founding Bishops) bought it living there until 1958. Stephen and Upshur Puckette then owned it from 1958-1966. Stephen, a great grandson of Bishop Elliott, lived there while he was teaching math. In 1966 they left in order for him to teach at the University of Kentucky. Marvin and Anita Goodstein owned the home from 1966-2016. After the death of Marvin Goodstein in 2016, the children of the Goodsteins sold the house. It is now owned by an alumni Joseph DeLozier.
James Gipson account
