United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794Linley, John1979-05Located at: Founders Memorial Garden, Lumpkin Street, University of Georgia Campus, Athens, Ga.View of Headquarters house from the street. 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. The headquarters, a 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: "Atens, Ga Clarke Co. Founders Garden GC of GA."Date of structure: 1857.image/jpegForms part of: John Linley Collectionhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Ladies Garden Club (Athens, Ga.)Greek Revival (Architecture)EuropeanBrickMuseumsEntrancesOpenings (architectural elements)Architectural elementsExhibition buildingsAdministration buildingsOffice buildingsArchitecture--Georgia--AthensArchitecture--Georgia--Clarke CountyUniversity of Georgia. Founders Memorial GardenEntrance (Garden Club of Georgia Museum-Headquarters House, Founders Memorial Garden, Athens, Ga.)StillImage