Paschall-Daniel House

Built in the 1850s as a two-story, T-plan residence south of Oxford, the Paschall-Daniel House is a Greek Revival dwelling of timber framing sheathed in beaded weatherboards. Dr. Zebulon M. Paschall is believed to have raised it between 1852 and 1858. Its front porch has six octagonal columns, and its twelve-over-twelve front windows open to the porch almost like doors. Inside, the rooms are ranked by importance through fluted surrounds, crossetted mantels and wainscoting, with the finest detailing in the front parlors. Its paired and triple octagonal chimney pots are a rare antebellum Gothic Revival touch in the county. Later owners included a professor and grocery merchant G. Norman Daniel, who kept dairy cattle here. Eight outbuildings, including a milking barn and log tobacco barn, still stand behind the house, illustrating small-town rural life into the early twentieth century.