Hill and Dales Estate is a house built for textile king Fuller E. Callaway and his wife Ida Cason Callaway completed in 1916 in Lagrange, Georgia. Properties including the Pre-Civil War Ferrell Gardens were started by Nancy Ferrell in 1832 and expanded by his daughter Sarah Coleman Ferrell starting in 1841.
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Fuller E. Callaway bought land owned by Judge Blount and Sarah Ferrell in 1912. Neel Reid, from the architectural firm Hentz and Reid, designed the Callaway house to complement the Italian boxwood park made by Ferrells. The design of this house is also said to have been inspired by one of Reid's favorite architect, Charles Adams Platt and his adaptation of Italian villas residing in a formal landscape garden. Italian home style is proven with white stucco exterior and red tile roof. The east side of the house presents a large half-circle semi-circular porch with Ionic columns. The classic style of Neel Reid is shown in the interior of the house with a double staircase, stone fireplace (one of them converted into wood by Philip Schutze in 1948) and a narrow long palace with domed ceilings and low marble wainscot.
Hills & amp; Dales Estate is a contributing structure to the Historic District of Vernon Road in the National Register of Historic Places.
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History of Ferrell Gardens
Blount and Sarah Ferrell married in 1835 and eventually settled on the land given to them by his father. In 1841, Ny. Ferrell initiated the development of an official boxwood garden garden along the slope overlooking the property, which has been used for cotton planting. Ms. Ferrell incorporated various religious symbols and motifs into the garden design as confirmation and testimony of her belief that Ferrell's garden should be a reflection of religious faith and piety. He planted a variety of plants and combined local gems to make walls, stairs and terraces.
The Ferrell Garden, or The Terraces as they were called, became nationally famous for their beauty and open to the public. One such visit was written in the local paper at the time, The LaGrange Reporter , who wrote of the majestic oaks, the scented breeze and how they were quiet with amazement in the heaven open before us.
The Italian Villa Built in Georgia's Most Famous Park proclaimed the Atlanta Journal on April 30, 1916 when Fuller and Ida Callaway opened their new home for visitors for their 25th wedding anniversary. The article goes on to quote Mr. Callaway talks about the garden:
Experts of forestry and botany, amazed at the beautiful growth of flowers, shrubs and trees, some of the rare specimens from Japan, Australia, China and the Holy Land evolved better than in their homeland, have tried to explain this phenomenon by stating that there are characteristic of the land, but they are wrong. That's not the explanation. It's just plain, LaGrange, Georgian land. The real cause of this miracle in this park is seventy years of love and full attention given by Ny. Ferrell into the garden.
Architects Neel Reid added fountains and other sculptures to the park when Callaway's house was built to better integrate the house with the garden.
Callaway Family
Fuller Earle Callaway (1870-1928) was born in Troup County, Georgia and was a businessman from an early age, selling sundries to rural housewives and farming. At the age of eighteen he opened a shop five and ten cents and soon had several other stores and wholesale businesses. He then invested in the textile business and eventually had several businesses that employed thousands of people. He married Ida Jane Cason (1872-1936) from Jewell in 1891, and they had two sons, Cason Jewell Callaway (1894-1961) and Fuller Earle Callaway Jr. (1907-1992) Both sons grew up and worked on the management of their father's textile factory which was sold to Deering-Milliken in 1968.
Cason married Virginia Hollis Hand (1900-1995) from Pelham in 1920 and Fuller Jr. married Virginia's sister, Alice Hinman Hand (1912-1998) ten years later. After retiring from the factory, Cason worked to develop better farming practices at Blue Springs Farms near Hamilton, Georgia. He and Virginia opened Ida Cason Callaway Gardens in 1952.
After Ida's death in 1936, her two sons, Cason and Fuller Jr. bid closed for Hills & amp; Dales to see which one will get a family home. Fuller, Jr worries half the night that he will not get anywhere and half of the night he will do. The offer is very close, but in the end Fuller, Jr. and Alice moved into the family home. After Alice's death in 1998, real estate was inherited to Fuller E. Callaway Foundation.
As Callaways instructs, the estate becomes a museum for the enjoyment of visiting public. After the renovation and addition of the visitor center, the plantation opened to the public in October 2004. Extensive renovation on the second and third floors of the house was completed in April 2010 and now visitors toured all three floors of the house.
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External links
- http://www.hillsanddales.org
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