{"nrhp_refnum":"72000376","name":"Garden Club of Georgia Museum-Headquarters House,Founder's Memorial Garden","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Lumpkin St., University of Georgia campus","address_restricted":false,"city":"Athens","county":"Clarke County","state":"GA","lat":33.95434413600003,"lon":-83.37571938199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-04-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick house museum with a kitchen building, smokehouse and the two-and-a-half-acre Founder's Memorial Garden, on Lumpkin Street on the University of Georgia campus in Athens. The house was built in 1857 as a home for university professors.","why_significant":"The house reflects the University's 1857 practice of housing professors on campus to supervise students, and it later served many campus uses. The Founder's Memorial Garden (developed 1939-1946) honors the twelve founders of America's first garden club, the Ladies' Garden Club, founded in Athens in 1891. Together they are described as part of the historic fabric of the campus.","narrative":"Set high above Lumpkin Street on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, this red brick house was built in 1857 as a home for university professors, together with a kitchen building and a smokehouse. Teachers were expected to live on campus, monitor student activity and board students. Over the years the house served as a dining hall, offices, classrooms, a residence for the first Dean of Women, a sorority chapter house, and the Department of Landscape Architecture. In 1939 the department's head proposed the Founder's Memorial Garden, a joint project with the Garden Club of Georgia, honoring the twelve founders of America's first garden club, formed in Athens in 1891. The garden includes a boxwood garden, a sunken garden with a serpentine wall, and informal plantings of Piedmont species. The Garden Club restored the buildings between 1959 and 1963 and now operates the house as a museum with period furnishings. The complex adjoins Old North Campus and forms part of its historic setting.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; specific date 1857 (garden developed 1939-1946)","architect_builder":"Edward Wade of Augusta, restoration architect (1961 restoration); original architect/builder not stated","architectural_style":"Greek Revival detailing (trabeated doorway with sidelights and transom)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored by the Garden Club of Georgia, dedicated in 1963 as its state headquarters and operated as a house museum open to the public free of charge; condition listed as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.528939-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/72000376.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000376/cc34a09832-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000376/cc34a09832-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"GAgayle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garden_Club_of_Georgia.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">GAgayle</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garden_Club_of_Georgia.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72000379","name":"Old North Campus, University of Georgia","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/old-north-campus-university-of-georgia-72000379/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207464","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141737598"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/clarke-county/garden-club-of-georgia-museum-headquarters-house-founders-memorial-garden-72000376/"}