Belmont Mansion Spring Event

Join Belmont Mansion the last weekend in May as Staci Catron, the Senior Director of the Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center, will be speaking from her book, “Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia’s Historic Gardens,” an exploration of Georgia’s rich garden heritage from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. These public and private gardens include nineteenth-century parterres, Colonial Revival gardens, Country Place-era landscapes, rock gardens, and historic town squares. The book is widely regarded as a model for documenting gardens and regional landscapes.

The event begins at Belmont University’s Leu Center for the Visual Arts where Ms. Catron will be speaking. Afterwards, guests have the option of taking a tour of the Belmont gardens given by the director of the gardens and grounds at Belmont University. The afternoon concludes with a reception and book signing in Belmont Mansion’s Grand Salon.

Ms. Catron is a nationally recognized historic preservation scholar and the past president and honorary director of the Southern Garden History Society. In 2023, she was awarded the Historic Preservation Medal by the Garden Club of America.

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Host or Publisher Lauren Batte