Links

To further its educational goals the Southern Garden History Society provides links to not-for-profit historic properties with significant historic gardens and landscape programs, as well as to organizations similar in purpose to the society’s.

Atlanta History Center (GA) — One of the largest history museums in the U.S., the 33-acre site includes the 1928 Swan House and surrounding gardens, the antebellum Tullie Smith Farm, and the Cherokee Garden Library.

Bayou Bend (TX) — Fourteen acres of natural woodlands and formal gardens surround the 1928 Houston home of philanthropist Miss Ima Hogg.

Dumbarton Oaks (DC) — These Georgetown gardens, designed by landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand with clients Robert and Mildred Bliss, include benches and arbors, pools and fountains, orchards and herbaceous borders.

The Gardens of Colonial Williamsburg (VA) — Colonial Williamsburg is the world’s largest living history museum. The 301-acre Historic Area includes 100 individual gardens and greens.

Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont | Gardens & Grounds (VA) — National Historic Landmark home, studio, and gardens of artist Gari Melchers and his wife Corinne, overlooking falls of the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg.

George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens (VA) — Overlooking Charlottesville, restored gardens and farm landscape of America’s first president set on the banks of the Potomac River near the nation’s capital.

Hills & Dales Estate (GA) — A historic property of the Callaway Family located in LaGrange, including Ferrell Gardens and a Georgian Italian villa by the noted Atlanta architectural firm of Hentz and Reid.

Historic Annapolis Foundation (MD) — Carefully restored terraced gardens of William Paca, whose 18th-century home is set in the heart of Maryland's capital.

The House and Garden of Elizabeth Lawrence (NC) — Elizabeth Lawrence, garden designer, famed author, and first woman graduate in landscape architecture at N.C. State University, created her garden in Charlotte.

Longue Vue House and Gardens (LA) — A National Historic Landmark in New Orleans, the gardens were created by Ellen Biddle Shipman, “the dean of American women landscape architects.”

Monticello (VA) — Near Charlottesville, Monticello features flower, fruit, and vegetable gardens, as well as groves of trees and a variety of fences designed by Thomas Jefferson.

Old Salem Museums and Gardens (NC) — One of the leading horticultural restoration programs in the country, with meticulously restored gardens and orchards in Winston-Salem.

Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University (NC) — These Winston-Salem gardens, designed by landscape architect Thomas W. Sears for Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Reynolds, expressed early 20th-century ideals of estate garden design.

Stratford Hall Gardens (VA) — Westmoreland County home of the Lees, Stratford features an 18th-century garden restored by the Garden Club of Virginia and a modern garden based on 18th-century models.

Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants (VA) — Near Charlottesville, the Center collects, preserves, and distributes historic plant varieties and strives to promote greater appreciation for the origins and evolution of garden plants.