- Collection:
- Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library
- Title:
- Founders' Memorial Garden (Athens, Ga.)
- Creator:
- Owens, Hubert B.
- Date of Original:
- 1973-02-10
- Subject:
- Ladies Garden Club (Athens, Ga.)
Architecture--Georgia--Athens
Architecture--Georgia--Clarke County
University of Georgia. Founders' Memorial Garden - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Located at: Lumpkin Street, University of Georgia Campus, Athens, Ga.
Birdseye view of the Founders Memorial Garden during winter. The garden commemorates the twelve founders the first American Garden Club, the Ladies Garden Club of Athens which was founded in 1891. With funds raised by the Garden Club of Georgia, Dean Hubert B. Owens, his staff, and students of the Landscape Architecture Department designed the garden. The layout of the two and one-half acre series of gardens, the grounds of the former Headquarters House for the Garden Club of Georgia, consists of a formal boxwood garden, two courtyards, a terrace, a perennial garden, and an arboretum as well as two informal areas, one dedicated as a memorial to Johnnie Kyle Woodruff of Columbus, Georgia. The rose-brick, Greek Revival style house was built in 1857. The house had served as a residence for University of Georgia professors, a dining hall, quarters for the biological sciences department, a residence for the first Dean of Women, a chapter house for the Phi Mu Sorority, and an office for the School of Landscape Architecture beginning in 1938.
Slide annotated: "Birdseye View 2/10/73, Founders Memorial Garden, Athens, Ga."
Date of structure: 1846. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0487
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0487#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0487/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of image], Hubert B. Owens Collection, Box 20, Owens Library, School of Environment and Design, The University of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 slide : color
- Holding Institution:
- Owens Library
- Rights:
-
