By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home Walter D. Bellingrath is remembered as Mobile's first Coca-Cola Bottler and the founder of Bellingrath Gardens and Home. But he was also well known for his civic leadership in Mobile for…

    By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home The Monolith, a well-known feature within Bellingrath Gardens, will reach its 70th anniversary in August 2021. In 1950, Walter Bellingrath contracted with McNeel Memorials of Marietta, Ga., to develop…

By Dr. Bill Barrick, Executive Director From its earliest beginnings as a fishing camp, water was an important feature in the original design of Bellingrath Gardens. With so much natural water surrounding the site, it is interesting to see how…