Expressway Beautification Association records
Scope and Content
This collection contains reports, correspondence, and clippings that document the activities of the association. Included in the collection is a landscape planting report by the Federal Bureau of Public Roads that details the planting goals of the project. These materials illustrate the coordinated effort between the association, local landscape architects, and state and federal highway departments.
Dates
- 1949-1956, undated
Creator
- Expressway Beautification Association (Atlanta, Ga.) (Organization)
- Neely, Jean H. (Person)
- Hughes, Peggy F. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.
Administrative/Biographical History
The Expressway Beautification Association was formed in 1952 by co-chairs Jean H. Neely and Peggy F. Hughes, past-presidents of the Lenox Park Garden Club, to improve landscaping of the new North-South Expressway, now referred to as the I-75/85 or Downtown Connector, from downtown Atlanta to the Brookwood Station. The association consisted of over one hundred Atlanta garden clubs that worked with both federal and state highway departments, along with Atlanta landscape architect Eugene R. Martini as well as nurseryman Frank A. Smith, who provided designs and supervised the landscaping. Over 10,000 trees, shrubs, and vines were planted over a four year period. The association participated in this beautification project until its completion in 1956.
Extent
0.5 linear ft. (one half document case and two flat files)
Language
English
System of Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically according to titles supplied by staff.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, 1980
Description Control
This collection was reprocessed in 2014.
- Express highways -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Expressway Beautification Association (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Gardening -- Georgia -- Societies, etc.
- Landscape design -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Lenox Park Garden Club (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Martini, Eugene R.
- Roads -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Smith, Frank A.
- Urban beautification -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Women -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Societies and clubs
- Title
- Expressway Beautification Association records
- Author
- Jennie Oldfield
- Date
- 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository