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Athens Heritage Walks, sponsored by the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation, is a series of guided tours of historic places that celebrate each site’s unique architecture, culture, and history.
Click here for detailed information about tours, tour schedules, and to download an order form.
Tours are limited to 25 participants unless otherwise indicated. Reservations are required.
Ticket Prices
$12 ACHF Member $15 Nonmember $10 for 10 or more series reservations
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Click here to download an order form that can be mailed with payment.
Questions? Call 706-353-1801 or e-mail us at achftours@bellsouth.net.
Carr's Hill • Maxine Easom • Cobbham • Milton Leathers • Dearing Street • Hubert McAlexander • Downtown Athens • Hal Cofer & Jones Drury • Prince Avenue • Amy Andrews • Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery • Al Hester • Haunted History Tours • Milledge Avenue • Gilbert Milner & Fran Thomas • Milledge Circle • John Waters • North Oconee River • Ben Emanuel & Janet Clark • Oconee Hill Cemetery • Charlotte Marshall • Pulaski Heights • David Bryant • Reese Street • Michael Thurmond • UGA North Campus • Nash Boney • Old Athens Cemetery • Janine Duncan • Walking The Hill • Lee Epting & John Knowlton
 For decades, the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation has been a proactive force in developing community-wide understanding of the value of historic buildings, neighborhoods, and heritage (i.e. keeping Athens the way we love it). TIN ROOF Music Festival: Music Lives Here is a celebration of the connection between musicians and the historic homes and neighborhoods where they so often live & create.
Join ACHF at Little Kings on Friday, September 30th at 8pm to support the Foundation and the next round of up-and-coming bands that call Athens home. Bands include Yo Soybean, Save Grand Canyon, Sam Snyper, Mr. Falcon, Machismo and DJ Winston Parker.
Door prizes at the Tin Roof Music Festival include a $50 gift certificate to Flight Tapas for dinner; and 2 tickets to Georgia Theatre’s October 4th Brett Dennen concert, sponsored by guide2athens; as well as a $50 gift certificate for dinner donated by Farm 255 and 2 tickets to 40 Watt’s October 29th Of Montreal concert donated by the 40 Watt.
Classic City Tours is also offering the newly re-vamped Walking Tour of Athens Music History hosted by local raconteur and former Side Effect, Paul Butchart. Enjoy an in-depth exploration of the early scene that cultivated Athens rich musical heritage. Paul knows the scene well and has many great stories to prove it. Walks will cover the many 40 Watt Club locations, early clubs and record stores, (to name a few), along with surprise insider stops along the way. The tour departs from the Athens Welcome Center at 280 E. Dougherty St. at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 30th. Space is limited. Call 706-208-8687 for your reservation. $10 ACHF members; $15 non-members. Approximate running time is approximately 90-minutes.
Questions about the TIN ROOF Music Festival: Music Lives Here or the Walking Tour of Athens Music History? Call 706-353-1801 or e-mail achftours@bellsouth.net.
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Athens Heritage Walks is a series of guided walking tours of historic
places that celebrate each site’s unique architecture, culture and history.
Each tour is hosted by a distinctive personality whose knowledge and
experience bring a unique and colorful perspective to our local history.
* CLICK HERE FOR TOUR INFORMATION AND ORDER FORM *
Printable tour information
Read about the 2009 Tour Series here:
Henderson Avenue
http://chat.athensnewspapers.com/stories/071209/liv_462180904.shtml
UGA N. Campus
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/080109/uga_473425437.shtml
Winterville
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/090509/new_489880891.shtml
R.E.M. receives Phinizy Spalding Award
On Monday, June 7, the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation awarded the Phinizy Spalding Preservation Award, its most prestigious, to R.E.M. In her remarks announcing the award, Executive Director Amy Kissane said, “R.E.M. has long been deserving of this award but this year seems particularly apropos given that it is their 30th anniversary. This award is not an indication of the end of their contributions; simply a very heartfelt thank-you from the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation and the community for all they have done, individually and collectively, and a recognition of what we know will be their continued positive influence.”
In total, seventeen awards were given at this year's Annual Meeting and Preservation Awards ceremony, including for rehabilitations of a building that once stored frozen chickens into an indoor climbing facility, a 19th century textile mill into a medical school, and a Sunday school building into a completely different kind of sanctuary...
Read about the Annual Meeting and see pictures of this year’s Award winners and projects – including a video reflection of R.E.M.’s connection to Athens history –here.
Announcing…Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation partners with Alumni Association to honor former site of the historic Athens High and Industrial School
The Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation (ACHF) has partnered with the Alumni Association of the former Athens High and Industrial School to raise funds for a Georgia Historical Marker to recognize the site of the educational landmark. Athens High and Industrial was established in 1916 as the first accredited public high school for African Americans in Georgia. Founded in what is now the Mason’s building on the northeast corner of Reese and Church streets, it eventually moved to the intersection of Pope and Reese and incorporated several buildings that were originally part of the Knox Institute, a school for African Americans begun by the Federal Freedmen’s Bureau shortly after the Civil War. Additional buildings were later added but none remain.
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Celebrating 30 Years of R.E.M. in Athens!!!
In recognition of R.E.M.'s 30th anniversary, Warner Bros. Records has made a
generous monetary gift to Athens Clarke Heritage Foundation,
an organization which has been near and dear to
R.E.M.'s heart throughout their career.
R.E.M. is not just an iconic music group, they are the quintessential corporate citizen and they have supported numerous good causes in our community over the years, including the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation. We are extremely grateful for their support and are honored to be the recipient of the Warner Bros. donation, which is, without question, a tribute to R.E.M. Thank you, R.E.M. and Warner Bros.!
ACHF thought you might like to see some examples of R.E.M. in historic settings in Athens, so without further adieu, let the video footage roll:
(Click on the title and the video will open in a new window)
The One I Love
Turn You Inside Out
Shiny Happy People
Swan, Swan H
WEA Presentation at The Taylor Grady House
Come be inspired by the blood, sweat and tears your fellow-Athenians have put into the most notable "makeovers" in town! We will showcase this year's preservation award-winning projects with a vitual tour of stunning historic revitalization efforts. Plus, an updated o the Heritage Foundation's manu accomplishments of the past year and grand plans for the next.
R.S.V.P. by Wednesday, June 2
Call 706- 353-1801 or email achf@bellsouth.net
Also, the Historic Morton Theatre is celebrating its 100th Anniversary! Free guided tours available on June 3, 4 & 7. Call 706-623-3770 to make reservations.
MILLEDGE AVENUE LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT
Historic Preservation Commission Public Hearing
(Milledge is the only item on the agenda.)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:30 PM
A-CC Planning Department Auditorium, Dougherty Street
The proposed Milledge Avenue Local Historic District is in its final stages of becoming a reality and your support is needed. This local district designation will protect Milledge Avenue's history and architecture and we are oh so close, but we need a strong showing from people who know how important this is. The first of two public hearings is Tuesday, February 16.
Come out on Tuesday and express your support for this important historic district.
Click here for additional information.
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The Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation handed out 14 preservation awards at its 2009 Annual Meeting on Monday, June 8. Awards were given for Outstanding Publication or Program, Outstanding Achievement, Excellence in Community Revitalization, Outstanding Restoration, Outstanding Rehabilitation, Outstanding New Construction in a Historic Area, Outstanding Stewardship, ACHF Volunteer of the Year, and ACHF Trustee of the year.
To view PDF slides of the award winners, click here.
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A series of guided tours celebrating Athens-Clarke County’s designation
as one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2009 Dozen
Distinctive Destinations. Each tour is led by a distinctive Athens
personality whose knowledge brings a unique and
colorful perspective to our local history.
Tour Information
Tour Information PDF
Order Form
10th Annual Hands On Athens
April 3rd-5th, 2009
Project Weekend Is a Success!!!
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9th Annual Hands On Athens
April 4th-6th, 2008
Project Weekend Is a Success!!!
Note: Please
review our annual photo report
8th
Annual Hands On Athens
March 30 – April 1, 2007
Project Weekend Is a Success!!!
Click here to
download a PDF report of the work Hands On Athens accomplished during
the project weekend
Click
here to view a photo report of the work Hands On Athens accomplished
during the project weekend
Thank
you all!
Ware-Lyndon
House Update
The first half of 2003 has been a busy time for the Ware-Lyndon
House Committee. There have been several enhancements and
additions to the decorative arts collection owned and supervised
by the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation. Eddie and Sharon
Sams donated an extremely fine Aubussan rug that was a perfect
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Burke
Hodgson donated an exceptional 1850s Rosewood boudoir table
that is being displayed in the front hall. Jim Carter has
loaned a beautiful 1870s Sea Scape in its original frame which
hangs over a sideboard in the dining room. Janet Clark donated
a lovely 1850s Old Paris inkwell which is on display in the
double parlor. Freda Durrett of Durrett Studios in Atlanta
cleaned and stabilized a large, late-18th century landscape
on loan from Anita Sams Holton. Fred McLean of McLean’s
Refinishing has completed a beautiful restoration on a ca.
1830 late-Federal/early-Empire sideboard which was donated
by Sandy Hudson. Artist Charles Pinckney is currently resizing
and restoring period ornate stamped brass window cornices
which will be installed in the dining room and Lyndon room
this summer. These cornices were also donated by Sandy Hudson.
The
Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation would like to thank all
these patrons for their generous donations, and the artists
for their excellent restoration work. If you have furniture,
decorative arts or historical items of Athens’ provenance
and appropriate to the periods interpreted by the Ware-Lyndon
House that you would like to be considered for the collection,
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