Historic Garden Structures & the Structure of Historic Gardens

Wednesday, the twenty-eighth of September, two-thousand eleven

Nine o’clock in the morning

The Piedmont Driving Club
1215 Piedmont Avenue NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30309

Registration fee of $65

R.S.V.P. by Monday, September 19
Regina Pitts
804-493-8038 ext. 8919
rpitts@stratfordhall.org

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Bellevue House

A Colonial Revival masion built in 1910, Bellevue House is the work of celebrated architect Ogden Codman, Junior. Ronald Lee Fleming, the current owner, is an urban planner who has written a number of books on the subject of historic preservation. The restoraton of the house took seven years, from 1999 through 2006. Upon completion, Mr. Fleming turned his attention to the garden and it’s architecture. A reproduction of an 18th century Samuel McIntire tea house was building in the garden in 1926, and two more full scale reproductions of McIntire’s Federal period architecture have been added as garden follies. The final result creates a network of garden “rooms” that reference historic landscape design. Mr. Fleming will give a presentation titled “Reimagining the Gardens at Ogden Codman’s Bellevue House, Newport, Rhode Island.“

 

Stratford Hall

Dating to the late 1730s, the Stratford Hall Great House and its outbuildings are highly remarkable examples of colonial Virginia architecture. Stratford Hall’s history is equally striking: it was the site of a large 18^th-century tobacco plantation, the home of two signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and the birthplace of Robert E. Lee. Since 1929, a nonprofit corporation, the Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, has cared for Stratford Hall as a public historic site. Dr. Paul Crowl Reber, Executive Director, will give a lecture titled “Around the Great House: Stratford Hall’s Plantation Architecture.“

 

Founders Memorial Garden

The Founders Memorial Garden, on the historic North Campus of The University of Georgia was 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. The garden commemorates the twelve founders of the first American garden club, the Ladies Garden Club of Athens, founded in 1891. The layout of the two and one-half acres consists of a formal boxwood garden, courtyards, terrace, a perennial garden and two informal garden areas. The rose-brick, Greek Revival house and outbuildings were built in 1857. Both the house and gardens are on the National Register and Georgia Register of Historic Places. Today the garden is maintained by the College of Environment & Design. Daniel Nadenicek, Dean of the College, will present a lecture titled “Founders Memorial Garden & Cultural Landscapes.“