Bellingrath Gardens and Home

Bellingrath Gardens and Home

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name = Bellingrath Gardens and Home
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caption = The Bellingrath Home.
location = 12401 Bellingrath Gardens Road
Theodore, Alabama
built = 1925-1949
architecture = 20th Century Revival
added = October 19, 1982cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-03-07|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
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governing_body = Private
refnum = 82001609

The Bellingrath Gardens and Home consists of gardens and a mansion located on the Fowl River in Theodore, a suburb of Mobile, Alabama. They contain 65 acres (26 hectares) and are open daily for a fee. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 19 October 1982.cite web|title="Bellingrath Gardens and Home"|work="National Register of Historic Places Alabama Mobile County Website"|url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/al/Mobile/state.html|accessdate=2007-10-14]

Gardens

The gardens include a bridal garden, a conservatory, a great lawn, a nature walk, an Oriental garden, a rose garden, a chapel, the Mermaid Pool, Mirror Lake, an observation tower, and a river pavilion where river cruises are provided on the "Southern Belle".cite web|title="You Can Call It the Little Easy"|last=Motyka|first=john|work=New York Times|url=http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/travel/escapes/23American.html?ex=1175313600&en=f9db7486620e5d10&ei=5070&emc=eta1|date=2007-03-23|accessdate=2007-05-08] The garden pathways are composed of flagstone that had been obtained from the old city sidewalks in Mobile, where they had been in place since arriving as ballast in sailing vessels collecting loads of cotton for the mills at Manchester, England. The gardens feature live oaks, camellias, azaleas, roses, and chrysanthemums year round. Plants featured in winter are tulips, snapdragons, pansies, ornamental cabbage and kale, daffodils, poppies, primroses, and many varieties of narcissus. Plants featured in spring include the more than 250,000 azaleas, hydrangeas, Easter lilies, impatiens, salvia, fuchsia, and geraniums. Plants featured in summer are the more than 2000 roses, allamandas, hibiscus, copper plants, begonias, ornamental peppers, bougainvillea, caladiums, coleus, vinca, and marigolds. Plants featured in fall are over 8,000 bedded, potted and cascading chrysanthemums, hibiscus, and copper plants.cite web|title="The Gardens"|work="Bellingrath Gardens and Home Website"|url=http://www.bellingrath.org/the-gardens.html|accessdate=2007-10-14]

History

The property on which the gardens would eventually be constructed were purchased in 1917 as a fishing camp by Walter Bellingrath, President of Mobile's Coca Cola Bottling Plant. Mrs. Bellingrath began developing the gardens with architect George B. Rogers in 1927. The home was completed in 1935, encompasses convert|10500|sqft|m2 and features hand-made brick salvaged in Mobile from the 1852 birthplace of Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont. Ironwork was obtained from the demolished Southern Hotel (1837), also in Mobile.cite web|title="The Bellingrath Home"|work="Bellingrath Gardens and Home Website"|url=http://www.bellingrath.org/the-home.html|accessdate=2007-10-14] The home borrows elements of many traditions and eras — a Georgian staircase reminiscent of an English country house, French doors, a Mediterranean courtyard.

Magic Christmas In Lights

Bellingrath Gardens celebrates the Christmas season (the Friday after Thanksgiving through New Years Eve) with a display of over 3 million lights.

Gallery




See also

* List of botanical gardens in the United States

References

External links

* [http://www.bellingrath.org/ Official Site]


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