The Oaks

The Oaks was the home of Booker T. Washington. Twice a widower, Washington lived there with his third wife, Margaret Murray Washington, and three children from his earlier marriages. In 1899 Tuskegee students and faculty built the house, designed by school architect Robert R. Taylor using bricks made at the institute. By that time Washington and his school were well known internationally, and he spent more than half of each year away from home giving speeches and raising funds. Margaret Murray Washington continued to live there after her husband died there on November 14, 1915. She died in 1925. Washington's first wife, Fannie Smith, died in 1884, and his second wife, Olivia Davidson, died in 1889.

Tuskegee, Alabama · United States