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Lichgate on High Road

Name: Lichgate on High Road
Address: 1401 High Rd, Tallahassee, FL, US

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Philip

June 9, 2020

1401 High Road This fairytale inspired cottage was created by Laura Jepsen, a literature professor at Florida State. In 1956, she wandered by a pasture that lay just outside what was then the city limits of Tallahassee and saw an ancient Live Oak standing in its center. Falling in love with the tree, she purchased the surrounding field and built a small home modeled after English Tudor cottages. Visiting Lichgate is like stepping into a fairytale home and garden, it has three acres of green space with a small cottage located in the center. Spend a dreamy romantic afternoon watching clouds or a picnic for two on the lush lawns around the cottage. Look for the walking meditation labyrinth and Shakespeare Garden just south of the cottage. The granite used for the foundation came from the same quarry in Georgia as the stone in the steps of the nearby Old State Capitol Building, the white pine floors are planks from a ship US colonists dismantled to build a home in Putney, Vermont in 1762 (later demolished), and the cypress paneling was taken from swamps just outside Tallahassee. She named the property Lichgate after gates that separate the graveyard from the Church in England and spoke of her home being a place where one could travel back and forth between the land of the living and the land of the dead. Laura Jepsen never married or had children, and upon her death on Christmas Eve in 1995, plans were made to sell the property for commercial development. A group of her friends and former students created a non-profit and purchased the property to save it. Today, the cottage still stands and the property remains open to anyone who wishes to visit.