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Historic American Buildings Survey,
Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey
Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, Garden, 10 East Oglethorpe Avenue, Savannah, Chatham County, GA
- Title: Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, Garden, 10 East Oglethorpe Avenue, Savannah, Chatham County, GA
- Creator(s): Historic American Landscapes Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Lee, Clermont Huger
Low, Juliette Gordon
Girl Scouts of the United States of America
Wayne, James Moore
Gordon, William Washington
Gordon, Margaret McGuire
Gordon, George Arthur
Graves, Peggy Charles
de Burgh, Nina
McPherson, Eleanor Wayne
Stevens, Christopher M. , transmitter
Rossell, Daves , faculty sponsor
Rossell, Daves , historian
Hessian, Carleigh , delineator
Nicholas, Anthony , delineator
Heher, Stephanie , field team
Beatty, Shelby Leigh , field team
Chiuz, Ricardo , field team
Fritz, Paul , field team
Lyle, Chelsea , field team
Watts, Lois , field team
McPartland, Mary , transmitter - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 2000
- Medium:
Measured Drawing(s): 6
Data Page(s): 37 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HALS GA-4
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- For additional documentation, see also HABS GA-211 (Wayne-Gordon House / Juliette G. Low House)
- 2nd Place Winner (Tie) - 2016 HALS Challenge: Documenting National Register Listed Landscapes
- Significance: The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Garden features locally renowned landscape architect Clermont H. Lee's period garden design of 1953-56 meant to complement the newly opened house museum commemorating its namesake, the founder of the Girl Scouts of America. The garden exemplifies Lee's conscientious effort to design in a historically accurate manner with a revival-style plan, using plants native to the area between 1860 and 1886, when Low resided in the house. The garden also shows adaptability to contemporary needs and was meant to be seen as a model garden exemplifying core historic Girl Scout ideals of domestic, "feminine" values of homemaking and showing nature as a place of nurture empowering young women. The garden design also rose from the same sense of urgency to increase historical appreciation with contemporary use precipitated by increasing demolition of historic buildings that gave rise to the 1955 inauguration of the Historic Savannah Foundation. This concern only grew and it is fitting that the garden sits today in the Savannah National Historic Landmarks District established in 1966, one of the largest such district in the United States, next to the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, referred to in the nomination as "among the more important architectural structures in the district" and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965, and updated as part of the Juliette Gordon Low Historic District in 2006. Clermont Huger Lee (1914-2006) received her masters of landscape architecture in 1939 from the Smith College Graduate School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lee returned to her native Savannah and worked with Talmadge Baumgardner of the Sea Island Company. In 1949 Lee became the first woman in Georgia to establish a private practice in landscape architecture and she specialized in the reproduction of historic gardens and landscapes, executing dozens in the historic district and beyond. As part of this work, Lee was a leader in expressing a need for research into historic plants and planting styles of the Georgia coast. Lee also contributed to the professionalism of landscape architects in the State of Georgia when, in 1958, she helped to establish the Georgia State Board of licensing for landscape architecture. Lee was one of the first four landscape architects to be registered and she held the distinction of being the first woman to be registered in Georgia. She also held a founding board position for three years. In all, Lee's legacy in Savannah and the State of Georgia came from her talent and strength of character as a pioneering woman landscape architect, and in her helping to bring life to the historic places and plants from where she came.
- Survey number: HALS GA-4
- Building/structure dates: 1955-1956 Initial Construction
- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000276
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 32.077091, -81.092434
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)
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The Library of Congress generally does not own rights to material in its collections and, therefore, cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. For further rights information, see "Rights Information" below and the Rights and Restrictions Information page ( https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/rights.html ).
- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HALS GA-4
- Medium:
Measured Drawing(s): 6
Data Page(s): 37
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- Data Pages
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- Call Number: HALS GA-4
- Medium:
Measured Drawing(s): 6
Data Page(s): 37
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No, the item is not digitized. Please go to #2.
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Yes, another surrogate exists. Reference staff can direct you to this surrogate.
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