Compiled from the archives at Bellingrath Gardens and Home John Dickinson was a longtime guide at Bellingrath Gardens and Home during the 1950s and 1960s. The Bellingrath archives contain an interview with General Manager Fred Holder dated July 2, 1957,…
By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home When Walter Bellingrath purchased the Fowl River fishing camp that would eventually become Bellingrath Gardens and Home, the camp's two wooden cabins had been abandoned for some time. His father-in-law, Sewall…
By Sally Pearsall Ericson, Director of Marketing and Public Relations We've certainly had a chilly start to 2018. Chuck Owens, Nursery Manager at Bellingrath Gardens and Home, offers his advice to help Gulf Coast gardeners cope with the low temperatures.…
By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home When the Bellingrath Home was completed in 1936, it was equipped with something very few homes in Mobile had: Central heat. A large cast iron furnace in the basement bears a…
By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home For the last five decades, fall at Bellingrath Gardens and Home has been synonymous with the chrysanthemum. Each November, the Fall Outdoor Cascading Chrysanthemums show seems bigger and better than the…
By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home In 1950, C. Ernest Edgar Jr. was named as one of the five original trustees of the Bellingrath Morse Foundation. Mr. Edgar was the son of Mrs. Bellingrath’s sister Daisy Morse…
By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home George B. Rogers, the architect of the Bellingrath Home, arrived in Mobile in 1902. By the time he was hired by Walter Bellingrath to design the Home in 1935, he had…
By Sally Pearsall Ericson, Director of Marketing and Public Relations When Hurricane Frederic struck the Gulf Coast on September 12, 1979, the storm dramatically altered the landscape that Walter and Bessie Bellingrath had created on Fowl River. Bellingrath Gardens and…
By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home This is the second of a series of profiles of the original members of the Bellingrath-Morse Foundation. One of the first trustees to serve on the newly-formed Bellingrath Morse Foundation was…
By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home This is the first of a series of profiles of the original members of the Bellingrath-Morse Foundation. Walter Bellingrath set up the Bellingrath-Morse Foundation as he approached his 80th year. He…