- 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:
- 1955-03-14
- Subject:
- Ladies Garden Club (Athens, Ga.)
Trees
Shrubs
Flowers (plants)
Plants (vegetation)
Woody plants
Herbaceous plants
Stone
Rock
Brick
Gardens
Formal gardens
Open spaces
Landscape architecture--Georgia--Athens
Landscape architecture--Georgia--Clarke County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Located at: Founders Memorial Garden, University of Georgia Campus, Lumpkin Street, Athens, Ga.
The Founders Memorial 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.
Slide annotated: "Founder's Memorial Garden, Athens, Ga. Mar, 14, 1955."
Date of structure: 1941. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0684
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0684#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0684/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of image], Hubert B. Owens Collection, Box 28, Owens Library, School of Environment and Design, The University of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 slide : color
- Holding Institution:
- Owens Library
- Rights:
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