Come tour the historic home of Berry College founder, Martha Berry, and the museum built and dedicated to preserve her magnificent legacy. Tours are available Monday - Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m..
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Occastionally we close for special events, so call 706-368-6777 to confirm times.
Operating as usual
Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum will be closed from Thursday, December 24th through Sunday, January 3rd. We hope you have a joyful holiday season and we look forward to seeing you in the new year!
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We at Oak Hill are grateful for you! Thank you for your support and patronage during this challenging year. Though Thanksgiving 2020 may mean your holiday plans look a little different, we hope your day is full of warmth and joy.
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Oak Hill will be closed from Wednesday, November 25th through Saturday, November 28th. We hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving, and look forward to seeing you next week!
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Hey Vikings,
Good luck with your finals this week! You're almost done!
-The Oak Hill Staff
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Image Source: Berry College, Cabin Log, 1948, Student Life Photos
Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum will be closed Saturday, November 21st, as we transition into our holiday season. We will resume our regular hours on Monday, November 23rd at 10 a.m. Don't forget to book your Victorian Christmas Tour here: https://www.berry.edu/oakhill/victorian-christmas-tours !
Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum will ring in the Christmas season with its seasonal tours. 🎄🎁On Friday and Saturday evenings starting Dec. 4, Oak Hill's Victorian Christmas Tours will offer a glimpse into holiday celebrations of the late 19th century.
Tickets must be reserved in advance online at https://www.berry.edu/oakhill/victorian-christmas-tours
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Happy Birthday, Martha Berry! We still have a few tour slots available for today, so don't miss the chance to tour Berry’s home on this special day. Tour Reservation link: https://berry.ticketspice.com/oak-hill-tours.
P.S. Honeymoon Bakery outdid themselves with cookies and mini cupcakes for guests to celebrate our founder!
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This Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, marks the 155th anniversary of Martha Berry's birth date! One great way to celebrate this remarkable woman's life is by touring her beloved home and gardens at Oak Hill. Follow this link, https://berry.ticketspice.com/oak-hill-tours to reserve your tickets!
#OakHillMuseum #MarthaBerryMonday #BerryCollege
"Martha Berry Celebrating Her Birthday in the Oak Hill Parlor," Image Courtesy of the Berry College Archives
Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum will be closed Monday, September 7th for #LaborDay, and will resume our regular hours on Tuesday, September 8th at 10 a.m. After the restful weekend, check out our website for information about how to book a tour!
#SceneatBerry #OakHillMuseum
Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum will close at 3 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, August 22nd, with our last tour of the day at 1 p.m. If you can't visit this weekend, be sure to make a reservation to tour the Oak Hill Estate soon and take in the summer scenery! 🌳🌤️
#BerryCollege #SceneAtBerry #OakHillMuseum
#DidYouKnow that Martha Berry was awarded eight doctorates during her lifetime? Listed below are all of her honorary doctoral degrees in chronological order:
1. Doctor of Pedagogy, University of Georgia, 1920
2. Doctor of Laws, University of North Carolina, 1930
3. Doctor of Laws, Bates College in Maine 1933
4. Doctor of Humanities, Berry College, 1933
5. Doctor of Laws, Duke University in North Carolina, 1935
6. Doctor of Public Service, Oglethorpe University, 1936
7. Doctor of Laws, Oberlin College in Ohio, 1936
8. Doctor of Laws, University of Wisconsin, 1937
#BerryCollege #OakHillMuseum #ThrowbackThursday
Image courtesy of the Berry College Archives
Rain or shine, the view from The Martha Berry Museum's porch is always stunning. 🌧️⛅☀️
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Did you know that Martha Berry’s older sister was an Italian princess? 👑 Princess Eugenia Ruspoli shipped this exquisite Chinese Chippendale mirror from Italy to the Berry Schools in the late 1930s. Currently, it is located in the parlor of the Oak Hill home. Our docents enjoy showing this piece of our history to guests on tours along with other artwork sent to Berry by Eugenia, which can be viewed in the Martha Berry Museum. #OakHillMuseum #collectionshighlight
Earlier in the week, some tour guests inspired us to pause and take in the beauty of this Magnolia tree. The fresh perspective visitors provide when touring the estate reminds us of Martha Berry's saying, "Beauty is a part of education."
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Meet Mac, our newest team member at Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum and incoming freshman to Berry College! We have only had her here for a few weeks, and we are already impressed👍When asked what she is looking forward to in this job, Mac shared her excitement to get to know future guests during tours. Click here: https://berry.ticketspice.com/oak-hill-tours to make a reservation!
#BerryCollege #Lifeworks #OakHillMuseum
The staff at Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum wishes you a Happy Fourth of July!
Collections Highlight: US Navy Flag, c. 1919, Gifted to the Berry Schools by Admiral John Henry Towers
This Independence Day weekend, Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum will be closed from Friday, July 3th, through Sunday, July 5th, reopening at 10a.m. for our usual hours on Monday, July 6th. We look forward to seeing you after the holiday!
#BerryCollege #OakHillMuseum
We are excited to announce that Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum will reopen for tours on Monday, June 29, 2020!
To keep patrons safe, the museum will operate with reservation-only tours. Before coming to the museum, visitors must reserve their spot online at https://berry.ticketspice.com/oak-hill-tours. For questions about making a reservation, call (706) 368-6789.
While on the Oak Hill property, guests should maintain a social distance of six feet with anyone outside of their party, and masks are required inside all buildings. If a guest does not have a mask, the Oak Hill staff will provide one upon entry into the museum.
Tours are offered Monday- Saturday, from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. starting on the hour. Each tour of the Oak Hill home is limited to six guests to allow for social distancing and to help combat the spread of COVID-19. Docents will guide groups through Oak Hill and Aunt Martha’s Cottage, after which, guests will finish their visit with a self-guided tour of the Carriage House and the Oak Hill Gardens.
Need more information about our reopening plan and tour schedule? Check out https://www.berry.edu/oakhill/plan-your-visit/.
Did you know that the Sunken Garden used to be Martha Berry's Iris Garden? Before the addition of Kwanzan cherry trees, each tier featured these elegant flowers.
#BerryCollege #OakHillMuseum #MuseumMomentofZen #HistoricGardens
Looking for a new recipe to try? Aunt Martha's Ginger Cookies were a favorite of Berry's earliest students. She kept this cookie jar filled with this tasty treat for her visitors at Oak Hill.
Want even more Historic Berry bakes? Order a copy of "Dining with the Daughters," The Daughters of Berry, Inc. cookbook, from our online gift shop: http://ow.ly/Pxj650zSLqf
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"The magic of time lends to the rugged portion of our journey the selfsame beauty as to that along which flowers bloomed; each scene of the campus seems to have a new endearment to us; and the cords of friendship that have been woven about our lives here are to us stronger than ever before."
-William Archer Hagins, "Valedictory," May 1910
(Photo by Berry College staff photographer Brant Sanderlin)
To read more of Hagins' speech, visit: https://bit.ly/3ebPOyZ #BerryCollege #SceneatBerry #OakHillMuseum
Dramatic, cloudy skies overhead usher in the weekend. 🌥️
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Martha Berry wrote this letter to Alice Logan Wingo 102 years ago to the day! They were able to work out the living arrangements, and Wingo accepted the position as an English teacher for the Berry Schools. She remained a faculty member for the next 27 years, serving as the dean of women for much of that time.
Read more letters to and from Wingo
at http://ow.ly/aDrD50zLPq5
#BerryCollege #HistoryHighlight #OTD
For this #MuseumMomentofZen, take in the delicate beauty of the Kwanzan Cherry Tree blossoms in our Sunken Garden.
#BerryCollege #SceneatBerry #OakHillMuseum
This Cedar grove sits above the Sunken Garden at Oak Hill, and it is one of our favorite hidden treasures on the property. What are some spots you are excited to visit when Berry and Oak Hill reopen?
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Now, these are the grades you want to see on a report card at the end of the semester! Clayton Henson was Berry's first graduate in 1904, and he certainly set the bar high for what Berry students could achieve.
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It is another #MarthaBerryMonday, and since yesterday was Mother's Day, this sweet gown and pair of rabbit-skinned shoes seem like the perfect collections pieces to highlight. These garments date to the 1830s, and both Martha and her mother, Frances Rhea, wore them! You can see them in our "Timeline" exhibition at The Martha Berry Museum when we reopen this summer.
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Today we are celebrating and sending off our Senior student worker, Amberlee Williams (20C)!
Amberlee began working at Oak Hill as a docent her freshmen year, and her dedication to providing hospitable and patient service to all guests saw her take on roles with Educational Outreach and eventually leading our student team as the Museum Supervisor. We will miss her encouraging spirit, but we are so proud of all she has accomplished during her time at Berry College!
Join us in congratulating this standout graduate on what would have been her Commencement Day! 👩🎓🎉🎉😁
Photograph courtesy of Katelyn Louise Photography (Congrats to another Berry graduate, Katelyn Louise (20C)!)
#CelebrateBerryGrads #BerryCollege #OakHillMuseum
Dear Vikings,
The semester has been a challenging one. We wish you well as it comes to a close, and hope success attends your work during finals week.
Telegram Courtesy of the Berry College Archives
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Experience another peaceful moment viewing the Oak Hill Gardens. Colorful zinnias fill the beds of the Formal Garden, and we hope they brighten your day!
#BerryCollege #SceneatBerry #OakHillMuseum #MuseumMomentofZen
Last Friday was National Arbor Day, and at Oak Hill we celebrate our trees year round! Check out these photographs taken by our staff.
Got great Oak Hill tree pictures of your own? We'd love to see them! Post using #OakHillMuseum or tag us 🌲📷🌳
#SceneatBerry #BerryCollege
This iconic picture shows Henry Ford dancing with Berry student, Irene Seller, c. 1930. This #WorldDanceDay, we are reflecting on the history of dancing at Berry.
Did you know that dancing was controversial at Berry in the early days of the school? Martha Berry grew up accustomed to taking dance lessons and saw it as an appropriate activity for young people. However, after bringing in a dance instructor to teach in 1921, a small number of staff and students left the schools due to personal and religious beliefs opposing the action.
Photograph Courtesy of the Berry College Archives
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What can we say? Sunrise looks good on The Christopher Browning Pavilion and Oak Hill!
Did you know that First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson was an artist and that she sold some of her paintings to benefit the Berry Schools?
In 2014, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Wilson's untimely passing, Oak Hill and the Rome Area Council for the Arts co-hosted a special exhibition of her American impressionist-style landscapes organized by the President Woodrow Wilson House. Follow this link to enjoy the virtual version of that same exhibition curated by The President Woodrow Wilson House: https://g.co/arts/XzW3hqTFJBCyRBhp7 !
Letter Courtesy of the Berry College Archives
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Martha Berry dreamed of beautifying her home with gardens. Now, you can learn how that wish became a reality on our new webpage, The History of the Oak Hill Gardens!
The page features archival images of some of the original plans and blueprints, photographs of the gardens dating between 1930-1950, and links to personal letters exchanged between Berry and landscape architect, Robert B. Cridland. Click this link to dig in: https://www.berry.edu/oakhill/oak-hill-estate/gardens 😀
Martha Berry in the Sundial Garden at Oak Hill, c. 1935
Photograph Courtesy of the Berry College Archives
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The staff at Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum wishes you a Happy Fourth of July! Collections Highlight: US Navy Flag, c. 1919, Gifted to the Berry Schools by Admiral John Henry Towers
Did you know that the Sunken Garden used to be Martha Berry's Iris Garden? Before the addition of Kwanzan cherry trees, each tier featured these elegant flowers. #BerryCollege #OakHillMuseum #MuseumMomentofZen #HistoricGardens
For this #MuseumMomentofZen, take in the delicate beauty of the Kwanzan Cherry Tree blossoms in our Sunken Garden. #BerryCollege #SceneatBerry #OakHillMuseum
Experience another peaceful moment viewing the Oak Hill Gardens. Colorful zinnias fill the beds of the Formal Garden, and we hope they brighten your day! #BerryCollege #SceneatBerry #OakHillMuseum #MuseumMomentofZen
What can we say? Sunrise looks good on The Christopher Browning Pavilion and Oak Hill!
Before heading into the weekend, we invite you to pause, take a deep breath, and enjoy this moment in our Goldfish Garden. #MuseumMomentofZen #BerryCollege #SceneatBerry #OakHillMuseum
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We loved celebrating the end of the semester with Berry’s Alternative Housing students last night! Martha Berry often filled her house with music, and it was truly special to have Berry College student Bella Robbins continuing that tradition in the Oak Hill parlor. Caroling, anyone? #OakHillMuseum #Piano #SceneAtBerry
What a sweet treat during the Valentine season!
Opened in 1972 as a historic house and history museum, Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum is one of the Georgia's most prized attractions. Our mission is to tell the story of Berry College and its founder, Martha Berry, through exhibitions, events and educational programming.
Tours begin at the Martha Berry Museum where guests can tour the permanent exhibition that traces the evolution of the Berry Schools into Berry College. The Martha Berry Museum also includes an art gallery and temporary exhibitions.
Oak Hill is the Greek revival home of Martha Berry, founder of Berry College. Visitors receive a guided tour of the dwelling led by Berry College students. Guests may also tour the home's three outbuildings, as well as Oak Hill's gardens. Tours are available Monday - Saturday from 10AM-5PM. Occastionally we close for special events, so check our page for closures and/or call us at 706-368-6777 to confirm times.
Can’t make the trek to visit in person? Click here to start your virtual tour of Oak Hill & The Martha Berry Museum at Berry College!
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