Architectural style Federal Area 1,619 m² Phone +1 706-722-5495 | NRHP Reference # 73000641 Year built 1818 Added to NRHP 20 March 1973 | |
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Location 506 Telfair St., Augusta, Georgia Address 506 Telfair St, Augusta, GA 30901, USA Similar Morris Museum of Art, Sacred Heart Catholic, Woodrow Wilson Boyhood, Augusta Museum of History, Meadow Garden | ||
Gertrude herbert institute of art
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art is located in Augusta, Georgia, in the home of former Augusta Mayor and United States Senator Nicholas Ware. Olivia Herbert founded the Institute in 1937. The original name for the Institute was the Augusta Art Club; it was later renamed in memorial to Olivia Herbert's daughter, Gertrude Herbert Dunn. The two primary missions of the Institute are art education and visual arts exhibition.
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Education activity
Facilitating the art education mission of the Institute is a certification by the Georgia Council of Arts as a Teacher Professional Learning (TPL) provider current as of 2007. Among other certified providers is Emory University.
Ware's Folly: The building housing the Institute
Construction of the home in which the Institute is housed was completed in 1818. The building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building bears the nickname Ware's Folly, which derives from the high cost of the construction, $40,000 in 1818 or c. $12,000,000 in 2007, and the extravagant interior detailing.