Founders Memorial Garden
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The gardens on the property were conceived, designed, and installed during the tenure of Hubert Owens, the founder and first dean of the landscape architecture program at the university during the 1940s. Financial support for the installation of the Gardens came from several individual garden club organizations around the state. Today, the Garden is maintained by the College of Environment and Design, and serves as a teaching resource for the College as well as for other units across the campus.
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.
