Monroe, William L., 1892-1965
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1892 - 1965
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Druid Hills Garden Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1021
Scope and Content
This collection consists of histories, minutes and yearbooks that document the club's civic and social activities. The collection also includes scrapbooks which further document the club's interests and special projects, as well as activities of members such as Marie S. Nicholson and Francis King.
Dates:
1929-2015, undated
Elizabeth Meriwether landscape plan for the Botanical Gardens Park, Fulton County, Georgia
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS426
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a landscape plan of the Fulton County Botanical Gardens Park (also known as the Fulton County Botanical Garden) likely drawn by the landscape architect for the botanical garden, William L. Monroe (1892-1965). The plan includes features such as an ampitheater, azalea and alpine garden, cover crop areas, cypress plantings, bog garden, school house, and Mirror Lake. Of special interest are the dimensions and boundaries of the garden including River Camp Road, Gordon...
Dates:
1941
Mimosa Garden Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS673
Scope and Content
This collection contains attendance ledgers, yearbooks, and scrapbooks that document the social and civic activities of the club. The scrapbooks include clippings, yearbooks, and flower show awards and ribbons. One scrapbook is devoted to the club's civic project landscaping the grounds of the Atlanta Speech School's new location on Northside Parkway in 1967. This scrapbook includes landscape drawings by landscape architect, William L. Monroe. Other materials include documentation on the...
Dates:
1928-2013
Monroe's Landscape and Nursery Company landscape architectural drawings
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS218
Scope and Content
This collection contains landscape drawings of both William L. Monroe, Sr. and William L. Monroe, Jr., as part of the Monroe's Landscape and Nursery Company, and represent a wide variety of clients including residential, commercial, churches, and parks. Of special note is a landscape plan of Chastain Woods for Chastain Memorial Park.
Dates:
1934-1987, undated
William L. Monroe, Sr. family photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS234
Scope and Content
This collection consists of photographs of William L. Monroe, Sr. and family members, wife Ila Smith Monroe, and children Evelyn Doris Monroe and William (Billy) L. Monroe, Jr. The majority of the images were taken in Monroe Gardens at 1896 Monroe Drive, Atlanta, Georgia, adjacent to Monroe's Landscape and Nursery Company. Of special interest are background features of the garden, such as the lodge, chapel, bomb shelter, and stone terracing, which provide details on the garden plan created...
Dates:
1920-1953
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Flower shows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Landscape architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta. 2
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Nurseries (Horticulture) -- Georgia 2
- Nursery growers -- Georgia 2
- Parks -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Botanical gardens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Druid Hills (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Fulton County (Ga.) -- History 1
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Societies, etc. 1
- Gardening -- Societies, etc. 1
- Gardens -- Design 1
- Gardens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Landscape architecture -- Georgia 1
- Landscape design -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Landscape gardening -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Mary Howard Gilbert Memorial Garden (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Olmsted Linear Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Parks -- Georgia -- DeKalb County 1
- Recreation areas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women -- Georgia -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1 + ∧ less
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