Laura Jepsen (October 30, 1907), a literature professor purchased the property in 1955 where the Lichgate cottage stands.
Laura Jepsen (October 30, 1907  December 24, 1995) was a professor of comparative literature at Florida State University. She is noted for her house at Lichgate on High Road, which she built in the style of an English Tudor cottage. The Lichgate cottage was the home of the late Laura Jepsen, a professor of comparative literature at Florida State University from 1946 to 1978. Jepsen purchased the property on which the cottage now stands in 1955 from a group of individuals representing the Capital City Free Will Baptist Church. 
