TELFAIR ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES - GHM 025-38B
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N 32° 04.725 W 081° 05.698
17S E 491037 N 3549168
TELFAIR ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Located opposite St. James Square.
Waymark Code: WMW9Z
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/24/2006
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Created under the Will of Miss Mary Telfair (c. 1789-1875), the Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences opened as the first public art museum in the Southeast with a preliminary private showing February 12, 1885.
After extensive remodeling and additions, with Detlef Lienau of New York as architect, the building was formally dedicated May 3, 1886. Among the prominent persons who attended the dedication were: Jefferson Davis and his daughter, Winnie Davis; Charles C. Jones, historian; General A.R. Lawton; General Henry R. Jackson; General G. Moxley Sorrel; Col. John Screven and Col. Charles Olmstead.
Carl L. Brandt, N.A., served as Telfair’s first Director, 1883-1905.
025-38B GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: GHM 025-38B
Date: 1956
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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