On the QT | The Official Newsletter of GWA June-July 2016
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BY KATE COPSEY
PHOTO C OU R TE SY ATLAN TA HISTORY C ENT ER
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Swan House, designed by famed Atlanta architect
Philip Trammell Shutze, provides a glimpse into
the lifestyle of this Atlanta family during the 1920s
and 1930s.
tlanta is one of the largest cities in the south
and like many, has a checkered history.
Much of that history is preserved in the
Atlanta History Center.
Among its assets: the magnificent Swan
House that dates back to the Roaring
Twenties (1928); and the Goizueta Gardens, which
includes the Smith Family Farm Gardens, the Swan
House Gardens and Grounds, the Mary Howard
Gilbert Memorial Quarry Gardens, the Cherry Sims
Asian American Garden and the Frank A. Smith
Rhododendron Garden.
TERRACES AND ROSES
The site is dominated by
the classically designed Swan
House, which was built in 1928
by the heirs to a cotton broker.
Standing regally at a local high
point, Swan House is probably
the most photographed building in Atlanta. The terraced garden gracefully descends with
lawns and waterfalls toward
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