Friday, March 25, 2011

71 Annual
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Pilgrimage March 28-April 9

Discover the Past

Welcome to the 71st Annual
Columbus Spring Pilgrimage
Tickets
Available at
Tennessee
Williams Welcome
Center
300 Main Street
Downtown
(800) 920-3533
(662) 328-0222
www.columbus-ms.org
Tours:
Adults $18
Senior Citizen (60+)/
Military $16
Students (K-12) $10
Groups of 20 or more
receive 10% discount
Prices are per tour per
person/Only one Tour of Kitchens:
discount per person $20 per person

Carriage Rides:
Tales from the Crypt: $5 per person
Adults $4
Students (K-12) $2 Double Decker Bus:
Tickets available for $5 with purchase of tour ticket
purchase at cemetery $8 without purchase of tour
ticket

Important Information
• Pilgrimage headquarters (Tennessee Williams Welcome Center) will be
open for ticket sales 8:30am-6pm, Monday-Saturday and 12pm-5pm on
Sunday. On Candlelight Tour dates, the Welcome Center will be open
from 8:30am-8:30pm.
• Visitors may obtain tour tickets and maps at the Tennessee Williams
Welcome Center prior to beginning self-guided tour.
• Tour homes may be seen only as scheduled in the brochure.

About theCover
• Reservations are available for groups or individuals by phone.
• Guides are available for groups by prior appointment.
• Please arrive at the last tour home at least 30 minutes before tour ends.
• No smoking, beverages, interior photographs, or stiletto/spike-heeled
shoes, please! Stella McShan, Rachel Brady and Anna Gaines Gaskin are shown at
• Information in this brochure is accurate at press time; subject to change.
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 Green Tour Blue Tour Yellow Tour
Monday, March 28, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, 9 a.m. - noon Tuesday, March 29, 2-5 p.m.
Wednesday, March 30, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Thursday, March 31, 9 a.m. - noon Thursday, March 31, 2-5 p.m.
Friday, April 1, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday, April 2, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday, April 2, 9 a.m. - noon
Monday, April 4, 9 a.m. - noon Monday, April 4, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, 2-5 p.m.
Wednesday, April 6, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, 9 a.m. - noon Thursday, April 7, 9 a.m. - noon
Friday, April 8, 9 a.m. - noon Friday, April 8, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday, April 9, 2-5 p.m.
White Arches
White Arches Waverly
WaverleyMansion homeand
Mansion home andgardens
gardens Rosedale
Rosedale
122 7th Avenue South 1852 Waverley Mansion Road 1523 Ninth Street South
Affectionately called “Columbus Waverley, one of the most photographed homes in the South, This home is considered
Eclectic,” the combined has graced the covers of international publications. Restored to one of the finest examples
architectural elements of Greek its former grandeur, this showplace is open daily year-round. of Italianate architecture
Revival, Gothic and Italianate circa 1852 in Mississippi.
come together to form a most Robert Snow Family Rosedale’s colorful,
welcoming style. Beautiful National Historic design-perfect interior
woodwork, mirrored glass Landmark is often the subject of of
doorknobs, a three-story cupola articles and reviews.
and even original bedroom closets National Register
National Restoration The home has recently
add to its allure. circa 1857 undergone extensive
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Leike Award
restoration. circa 1856
National Register Mr. and Mrs. Gene Imes
National Register

HamiltonHall
Hamilton Hall
Colonnade Garden
Colonnade Garden (architectural only) 905 Third Avenue North
620 2nd Street South
An Italianate
Colonnade Garden is typical of the townhouse, Hamilton
1860s, featuring a boxwood maze, Hall delights the
pleasure garden, formal area with Bryn Bella
Bella visitor’s eye with
fountains, kitchen and herb garden, an asymmetrical
fruits and berries. Walk through to 822 Stinson Creek Road arrangement of lines
enjoy the flowers blooming in the and shapes, brick
footprints of each gardener who lived Traditional Southern antebellum architecture is beautifully walls, a symmetrical
here in the past. circa 1840 captured at Bryn Bella. Built in 1848 by the William Cox family tower on the side, and
Dr. and Mrs. Ryan Hill and designed by James Lull, this stately home boasts heart pine a plethora of porches.
National Register floors, jib windows that access multiple porches, and grand top circa 1860
and bottom hallways. Built with hospitality and fresh country Ms. Rachel George
breezes in mind, Bryn Bella was once a 5,000-acre cotton National Register
plantation and is still a lovely reminder of when “Cotton was
king.”
circa 1848
Keith and Chrissy Heard RosewoodManor
Rosewood Manor
Twelve Gables
Twelve Gables National Register
220 3rd Street South Restoration Award, Historic Columbus 719 Seventh Street North

Twelve Gables is famous for being the meeting place of local This home boasts a Greek
ladies who met in 1866 to plan a special day to decorate the Revival façade with a Federal
graves of the Confederate War influence and reigns over
dead in Friendship Cemetery. This four-and-a-half acres of
ceremony led to our country’s landscaped lawn, including
Memorial Day. circa 1838 3,000 boxwoods. Like many
Mrs. Ray Y. Gildea, Jr. homes in Columbus, it was
built on a hill, as low places
National Register were considered unhealthy.
Rosewood Manor was built for a Yankee bride who would not
occupy it; she claimed vapors were unhealthy and returned
North. circa 1835
Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt Hicks
National Register

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Wed., March 30, 9 a.m. - noon
Friday, April 1, 9 a.m. - noon
Sunday, April 3, 2 - 5 p.m.
Tuesday, April 5, 9 a.m. - noon
Tuesday, March 29, 7-10 p.m.
Thursday, March 31, 7-10 p.m.
Saturday, April 2, 7-10 p.m.
Tuesday, April 5, 7-10 p.m.
Tours
Thursday, April 7, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Thursday, April 7, 7-10 p.m.
Saturday, April 9, 9 a.m. - noon Saturday, April 9, 7-10 p.m.

Amzi Love home

home and
andgardens
gardens Temple
Temple
305 Seventh Street South Heights
Heights Annunciation
Annunciation
As the only home on pilgrimage that
Catholic
Catholic Church
has remained in the same family 515 Ninth St.
S North Church
for eight generations, many of the April 2
fine furnishings are original to the This classic
classically- April 2
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
house. Amzi Love is a tour home reviewed in Fodor’s designed house
ho 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Travel Guide and the New York Times Travel Magazine. combines F Federal
circa 1848 and Greek R Revival
features. Th
The home April 3
Mr. and Mrs. R. Sidney Carradine
four floors,
includes fou
April 3
National Register 1-5 p.m.
porches on three 1-5 p.m.
sides and 14
1 Doric
D. Lee
Stephen D. Lee Home/
Home/ columns. T The home,
Florence
Florence McLeod Hazard
McLeod Hazard Museum
Museum museum-
with a muse
quality collection of decorative arts, is the setting for hhistoric
317 Seventh Street North narratives about 19th century life in Columbus. circa 1837 1
Once the home of CSA General Stephen D. Mrs. Dixie H. Butler
Lee, this home was restored in 1960 by the National Register
Historical Society and the Society for the Mississippi Landmark
Preservation of Antiquities. It is now a house/ St. Paul’s
Paul’s
museum exhibiting Civil War collections and artifacts.
National Register Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams Home
Home Episcopal
Episcopal
Mississippi Landmark
300 Main Street Church
Church
Whitehall
Whitehall April 22
April
The Tennessee Williams Home and Welcome Center is the
607 Third Street South first home of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee 10 a.m. - 22 p.m.
10 a.m. - p.m.
Williams, author of many well-known plays such as A
Built in 1843 by James Walton Harris, Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The
Whitehall was originally designed as April 33
a two-story Greek Revival townhouse.
Glass Menagerie. Williams was born in Columbus in 1911. April
He spent his early years in this Victorian home that served 1-5 p.m.
This stately mansion exhibits six as the rectory for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, where 1-5 p.m.
paneled square columns at the edge of a Williams’ grandfather served as minister. The house recently
wooden porch. The banisters bordering underwent extensive restoration and was designated a National
the porch consist of identically-milled Literary Landmark. It now serves as the official Welcome
hardwood balusters. Inside, heart Center for Columbus. It is open Monday-Saturday, 8:30
pine floors and handsome woodwork a.m. - 5:00 p.m., and Sundays, 12 noon - 5 p.m. circa 1875
provide the background for the Boggess’ National Register
collection of 18th and 19th century antiques. Mississippi Landmark
circa 1843
Dr. and Mrs. Joe Boggess & Family First
First Baptist Church
National Register
Historic American Buildings April 2
Church
10 a.m.
April 2 - 2 p.m.
Homewood Gardens
Homewood Gardens 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
800 Second Street South April 3
1-5 p.m.
April 3
The gardens of the striking
Greek-Revival Homewood 1-5 p.m.
will be on display during Pilgrimage 2011 for the first time.
The inspiration for the garden is “nsibidi”. Lush green
foliage, statues throughout the garden, and water features
are spread over this one-acre garden site. The Wil Colom
family continues to enjoy the classic and Romantic Revival
influences of this lovely home and garden. circa 1836 15
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Colom

Tales from
Friendship Cemetery
4th Street South
Please arrive no later than 9 p.m.

the Crypt
Tickets $2 for students, $4 for adults
This graveyard tour promises to be a memorable experience for lovers of history
and drama, for it is a combination of both. Tales from the Crypt re-creates the
lives of noted personalities interred at the historic Friendship Cemetery, site of the
Confederate Decoration Day that inspired the poem, “The Blue and the Gray.”

Monday, March 28, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Wednesday, March 30, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday, April 1, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Monday, April 4, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Wednesday, April 6, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Friday, April 8, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Each year, a series of vignettes features prominent local citizens who contributed to
the history of the city and state. Among those featured in the drama are Confederate
States of America generals,
former governors of Mississippi, a U.S. Congressman, merchants, authors and more.
Tales from the Crypt is an award-winning project of history students from the
Columbus-based Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. The project won
the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and was named a National Finalist
for the Save Our History Classroom Award. The students select, research and portray
the characters, assisted greatly by the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library. Tales from
the Crypt is a treat for the entire family!
 Pilgrimage continues historic
Welcome to the preservation in 71st year
71st Annual designation as one of “Dozen Distinctive
As director of the
Destination” by the National Trust for
Columbus Spring
Historic Preservation was made in part
Pilgrimage it is

Columbus Pilgrimage
because of the historic preservation
my privilege to
by the homeowners, the downtown
welcome you
businesses and the preservation of the
to our beautiful
Tennessee Williams Home which serves
town. We
as our Welcome Center. The National
really have been
Landmark properties, Waverley and
anticipating your
Riverview, three designated historic
visit.
districts, significant African-American
Nancy Carpenter For more than Heritage sites, the Riverwalk, the
17 years the Tombigbee River and Mississippi
Columbus Pilgrimage to homes, gardens, University for Women also contributed
and churches has been named one of the to this award. Columbus’ impressive
Southeast Tourism Society’s “Top 20 collection of historic homes includes
“The Spring Pilgrimage in Columbus is not only Events”. This designation would have an example of virtually every Southern
an outstanding way to remember our past but an been impossible without the homeowners, architectural style from the mid-1800s
the volunteers and supporters of the to the mid-1900s. “We are prepared to
opportunity to show off one of our most beautiful Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation, showcase our city during our Pilgrimage
Mississippi communities. And as an economic the Columbus-Lowndes Convention event,” Carpenter added.
and Visitors Bureau and Mayor Robert “Columbus takes great pleasure in
development tool, the Pilgrimage brings thousands Smith and the employees of the city hosting visitors from around the world.
of tourists to Columbus and northeast Mississippi, of Columbus. “We are proud to have We offer a true taste of Southern
been recognized among the top tourism hospitality, and invite our guests to return
who stay in hotels, eat in local restaurants and shop
events scheduled around the Southeast”, often,” she said.
at our unique stores. It is truly an excellent event said Nancy Carpenter. Also, our recent
Haley Barbour that promotes our state and heritage.”
“The strength of the script and the cast
-Governor Haley Barbour will remain etched in our memories forever.”
- Kathryn Tucker Windham, Master Storyteller and Author

Mayor welcomes all visitors RESERVE TICKETS NOW!

As the mayor of Columbus, I would like to extend to you our
warmest welcome on behalf of the city and its citizens. Spring April 14 – 17, 2011
is a delightful time of the year here in Mississippi, and the new Pickens County Courthouse,
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and the visitors it brings.
Columbus’ rich history is alive year-round, reflected in our $25 General Admission
numerous antebellum homes that attract thousands of visitors
each year. While you are with us at this time, I also invite you
to meander our tree-lined streets, enjoy our historic downtown
and explore the many recreational opportunities we have to
offer.
Robert Smith We are home to Mississippi University for Women - with
an historic campus worthy of note itself - that offers an
unparalleled education at a tremendous value.
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We are experiencing tremendous economic growth. Columbus is a city that preserves
its past and promotes its future.
I invite you to enjoy your stay in our city and urge you to allow us the opportunity to
earn our distinction as the “Friendly City.”
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All proceeds from the play will benefit the Pickens County Courthouse Preservation Foundation, dedicated to the restoration of this historic landmark. This project has
been made possible by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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