Built in 1847, the Lustrat House is the only example of a professor residence on campus. Professors occupied the houses to monitor student behavior. Erected during the presidency of Alonzo Church, the antebellum home was first occupied by John LeConte, a professor of natural history. In the early 1880s, Dr. Charles Morris, chair of the English department, lived in the house. It is the ghost of Dr. Morris that many claim haunts the house. A Confederate veteran, Morris has been sighted in his uniform seated at the dining room table or rocking at the window.
Marie Lustrate, who along with her two sisters, lived in the house claimed to have seen him. The Lustrat family occupied the house for thirty years as Professor Lustrat headed the department of Romance Languages. The house has been utilized as a residence, a house museum, an office of the president and is now home to the Office of Legal Affairs.
Peabody Hall bears the name of George Peabody, a Northern benefactor who made a fortune in the trans-Atlantic trade through banking and investments. His will designated that monies be used to aid education in the south, following the Civil War by building schools and training teachers. The University received $40,000 from the estate and built the building in 1913 for the School of Education. Today it houses the Departments of Philosophy and Religion.