This house stood on the lot now occupied by Col. Dudley's house , opposite the Sewanee Military Academy. Rev. Harvey O. Judd built the house in 1871. Judd and his family were a staple of early Sewanee and Winchester life. The Judds moved to Sewanee in 1859 and Harvey attended the Sewanee Collegiate Institute and later the University. He also built a steam laundry in the village. Both he and his younger brother, Spencer Judd, were photographers for the area. During the Civil War Harvey closed his photography gallery and went to Talladega, Alabama, where he made gun caps and bullets for the Confederacy. After the war he reopened his gallery and continued photographic work until he decided to become an Episcopal clergyman. He built this house during this time but sold it in 1872 to eventually become Reverend at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Macon, Georgia.
In 1873, William F. Graham, the director of the Chapel Choir and a cornet band, bought the house. Next, Mrs. Henri Weber acquired the lease in 1884. Her son, John Walker Weber, who entered the University in 1872, served as temporary headmaster of the Sewanee Military Academy from 1880-1889. Even after Weber left SMA, his mother remained in the house until 1893. At that time, Dr. John S. Cain of Nashville became Dean of the Medical School and lived here with his daughter and son-in-law. Cain lived in the house until it burned in 1917. The fire was turned into a social event with Sewanee’s ladies presiding over piles of china and household goods in the yard, while Dr. Cain, threw things out of the windows.
Col. and Mrs. Garland built the present house in 1938.
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Gailor, C. (1970). Old Sewanee Houses; The First Fifty-Years, 1860-1910. Unpublished manuscript, Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee.