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The Bellingrath Home After Hurricane Frederic

The Bellingrath Home after Hurricane Frederic

  • September 21, 2017
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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…

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Remembering Hurricane Frederic: The Gardens’ Long Road To Recovery

Remembering Hurricane Frederic: The Gardens’ long road to recovery

  • September 15, 2017
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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…

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Trustees Of The Bellingrath-Morse Foundation: Will Dorgan

Trustees of the Bellingrath-Morse Foundation: Will Dorgan

  • September 8, 2017
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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…

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Trustees Of The Bellingrath-Morse Foundation: Walter K. Smith

Trustees of the Bellingrath-Morse Foundation: Walter K. Smith

  • August 29, 2017
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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…

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New Plants For You: Ideas To Solve Your Landscape Challenges

New plants for you: Ideas to solve your landscape challenges

  • August 11, 2017
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Editor’s Note: Kip McConnell, Director of Plant Development Services in Loxley, recently spoke at Bellingrath Gardens and Home as part of our Wonderful Wednesdays summer series. His talk, “New, Better, Yours: Plant the Newest, Best Plants,” gave our guests an…

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The Bellingrath-Morse Lot In Mobile’s Magnolia Cemetery

The Bellingrath-Morse lot in Mobile’s Magnolia Cemetery

  • August 2, 2017
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By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home In 1836, following a series of devastating yellow fever epidemics, the city of Mobile purchased 36 acres to establish the New Burial Ground.  Eventually renamed Magnolia Cemetery, the property now covers…

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Remembering Pat Ryan, Bellingrath’s Longtime Horticulturist

Remembering Pat Ryan, Bellingrath’s longtime horticulturist

  • July 27, 2017
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By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home (This is the fifth in a series of profiles of people who managed the Gardens and Home in the early years.) For more than 35 years, Harry F. "Pat" Ryan's name…

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Remembering Albert Hunt, Bellingrath’s First Landscape Engineer

Remembering Albert Hunt, Bellingrath’s first Landscape Engineer

  • July 18, 2017
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By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home (This is the fourth in a series of profiles of people who managed the Gardens and Home in the early years.) In 1934, Walter and Bessie Bellingrath hired Albert A. Hunt…

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English Silver In The Bellingrath Home: The Tankerville Collection

English Silver in the Bellingrath Home: The Tankerville Collection

  • July 14, 2017
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By Tom McGehee, Museum Director of the Bellingrath Home While some of America’s finest silver makers are well represented in the collection amassed by Bessie Morse Bellingrath, her most prized pieces were British in origin.  The oldest of these was…

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Remembering “Doc” Brown, Bellingrath’s Longtime General Manager

Remembering “Doc” Brown, Bellingrath’s longtime General Manager

  • July 6, 2017
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By Sally Pearsall Ericson, Director of Marketing and Public Relations (This is the third in a series of profiles of people who managed the Gardens and Home after Walter Bellingrath’s death.) For nearly 40 years, Bellingrath Gardens and Home had…

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