Founders Garden House

Built in 1857, the historic Greek Revival house with its adjacent kitchen building and smokehouse serves as a pivotal point for the Founders Memorial Garden. Originally built as a faculty residence, the house served as student housing and dining hall from 1898 to 1919; as the residence for the first Dean of Women, Mary Lyndon, in the early 1920s; as home to the first campus sorority, Phi Mu, in the late 1920s; and home to the Department of Landscape Architecture during the 1940s and 1950s. The Garden Club of Georgia occupied the house as its state headquarters from 1963 to 1998.