2017 Design, Wine & Dine Festival Program

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PORTER HOUSE AS HISTORIC MACON’S DESIGN HOUSE

June 15-25, 2017 in macon, ga

All proceeds benefit Historic Macon Foundation historicmacon.org • #maconispreservation

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US Macon is a burgeoning bevy of inspiration. We simply must celebrate the layers of intrigue our city exudes. What better way to do that than to bring some of the best in the design, drink, and food realms to one place for ten days? We couldn’t be more excited to host guests from all over and all backgrounds in this place we are privileged to call home. We’re looking forward to joining you in celebrating tastemakers in the inspired setting of historic Macon.

Susannah Maddux Event Co-Chair

Canaan Marshall Event Co-Chair

Carrie Robinson Design House Chair

A special thanks to Wesleyan College for partnering with Historic Macon

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

Ms. Betty Brown IN-KIND SPONSORS

Thomas Bennett Janis Haley Dr. and Mrs. Ken E. Harper Curtis Hertwig Mary Lou Ezell and Roby Kerr Trish Welch 3

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Contact Information Web www.historicmacon.org Phone 478-742-5084 Email info@historicmacon.org

Staff Historic Macon Foundation is a nonprofit organization that revitalizes our community by preserving architecture and sharing history. For over 50 years, Historic Macon has been engaged in community revitalization efforts and has led the nation in innovative tactics for historic preservation. Our vision is to be the premier preservation organization in the nation. #MaconIsPreservation

Ethiel Garlington Executive Director

Contact Information

Lauren Mauldin Loan Fund Manager

Physical Address 935 High Street Macon, GA 31201

Michael Phillips Preservation Carpenter

Mailing Address P.O. Box 13358 Macon, GA 31208

table of contents Support Historic Macon 6 Our Projects

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Porter House

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Designer Bios

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Schedule of Experiences 30

Kim Campbell Preservation & Education Coordinator

Presenter Bios

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Latachia Clay Business & Office Manager

Index of Advertisers

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Sabrinna Cox Preservation Designer Emily Hopkins Special Events & Marketing Coordinator

Bernard Turner Cottage Coordinator Trish Whitley Director of Development

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SUPPORT HISTORIC MACON

Historic Macon Foundation is a non-profit organization that revitalizes our community by preserving architecture and sharing history. Our vision is to be the premier preservation organization in the nation.

Historic Macon is a national leader in preservation and a role model for revitalization efforts throughout the country. Our innovative real estate tactics, state and federal tax credit consulting services, advocacy efforts with the Fading Five list of endangered places, educational programming, and low interest loan programs allow us to transform our community and demonstrate the powerful impact of saving historic places. We’ve completed nearly 150 houses and kept 25,000 tons of debris out of the landfill. Since 2014, we’ve attracted $5.8M in investments in our target neighborhood, Beall’s Hill, and expanded our efforts to Mill Hill in collaboration with the Macon Arts Alliance and the Urban Development Authority.

Photo Credit: Maryann Bates Photography

Our work allows citizens to take preservation into their own hands. To date, Historic Macon has helped Maconites rehab 162 structures with our tax credit consulting service and awarded 67 loans for facade improvements. Citizens are improving their neighborhoods through Historic Macon’s Neighborhood Incubator program throughout Macon-Bibb. Our work continues to expand as we revitalize and preserve Macon. With the help of our community, we are proving that Macon is preservation.

Historic Macon’s staff works to preserve and revitalize Macon every day. Historic Macon is currently rehabbing a downtown building to serve as its new headquarters. Staff are pictured in their future offices at 338 Poplar Street in the above photo.

Interested in supporting preservation in Macon? Visit the ticket table to become a member! Or visit www.historicmacon.org/personal-memberships/ for monthly payment options.

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OUR PROJECTS Neighborhood Revitalization

Macon’s Fading Five

Tax Credits

Our holistic approach to neighborhood revitalization in Beall’s Hill has been lauded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. To date, we’ve rehabbed 18 homes and built 16 new houses in Beall’s Hill.

Our list of endangered properties identifies important places at risk. To date, we’ve witnessed an 80% success rate of saving properties listed in Macon’s Fading Five.

For the past four years, Macon has led the state of Georgia in the number of tax credit applications submitted thanks to Historic Macon’s tax credit consulting service.

Neighborhood Incubator Funded by Knight Foundation, Neighborhood Incubator promotes broad-based resident engagement through individual neighborhoods. Currently, 20 citizens representing 18 neighborhoods are enrolled in the program.

Rose Hill Cemetery Historic Macon serves as the steward of historic Rose Hill Cemetery. We host two Rose Hill Rambles annually. In the past two years, we’ve received 4 grants totaling $70,000 for cemetery improvements and enhanced connectivity to the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail.

Historic Macon Music Registry The Music Registry is an ongoing documentation project that interprets and celebrates Macon’s rich and diverse music heritage. To date, 24 plaques have been installed throughout Macon that tell this story.

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The Porter House 2017 Designers Lisa Bellwin Tracy Benton sally draughon Valerie garrett Judy Hodgens Terry Holland Steve Mckenzie carolyn reichert carrie robinson Katherine Walden

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THE PORTER HOUSE The Porter House’s Construction

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In the summer of 1927, Mr. James Hyde Porter and his wife, Mrs. Olive Swann Porter, went on a trip to Normandy, France. The Porters drove around the countryside and Mr. Porter decided he would build a French-inspired house if he ever had the chance. The opportunity came later that same year and Mr. Porter consulted with W.E. Dunwody Jr., a local Macon architect, to design a unique building that referenced the Porters’ trip. Dunwody referred to this chateau-inspired building as the “Farm House” and designed several other structures for the Porters’ property. The property, known as Porterdale, includl id ria ed a swimming pool, pool house, formal garden, garage, green house, experimen- dle Geor mo e nM gia A rchives, Washingto tal fields, and bird coops. In particular, Porterdale became very well known for its rose garden and the Porters hosted the first annual meeting of the Georgia Rose Society at their home for a tour on May 1, 1934. At the time Dunwody designed this house, he shared an architectural firm with William Oliphant. That firm is still in existence today as Dunwody/Beeland, Architects, Inc. Mr. Porter and his wife spent weekends at this house from its completion in 1928 until Olive Swann Porter’s death in 1939. After Mrs. Porter died, Mr. Porter sold their house at 562 College Street and resided exclusively at this house. He lived there until his death in 1949.

Porter Connection to Wesleyan

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While living in “the Porter House,” Mr. Porter gave $150,000 to Mercer University for the new female

dormitory and $100,000 to Wesleyan College for work on its new campus, known as the “Rivoli” campus. The Porters did not have any children but he served on Wesleyan College’s Board of Trustees in the 1920s. In 1921, Dr. William Fletcher Quillian, president of Wesleyan College from 1920 to 1931, asked Mr. Porter to serve on the Board.

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campus from InTown Macon in order to have a more modern campus with more space. The college purchased the land for the current campus, then known as the Rivoli Campus, in January 1923, and immediately began drawing up construction plans. Wesleyan hired a New York firm to design the campus, but Dunwody and Oliphant were the local associate architects on the project to oversee construction.

In order to raise the money to pay for the new campus, Wesleyan College embarked on a capital campaign.

The campaign started well, but an economic downturn in 1924 caused it to stall. Wesleyan desperately needed more space for its liberal arts facilities that the new Rivoli campus would provide, so the college decided to sell bond funds to help meet its $1 million capital campaign goal. The plan succeeded and construction of the new campus was scheduled to be complete in time for the 1928 fall term; the same year construction was completed on the Porter House.

Wesleyan College’s liberal arts departments were just settling on their newly completed Rivoli Campus when

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the Great Depression began. Although almost all colleges and universities suffered during this time, Wesleyan was particularly hard struck by the Depression because the bond funds they sold to complete the Rivoli Campus came due. Mr. Porter led a group of trustees to purchase all of Wesleyan’s debt, and then Porter gave two gifts totaling $150,000 to Wesleyan to cover its debt.

After Mr. Porter In 1951, Arthur Lewis and the First National Bank and Trust Company in Macon, functioning as executors of James Hyde Porter’s will, passed Porterdale on to Mrs. Kate M. Gillen. She borrowed against the property several times between acquiring it in 1951 and defaulting in November 1954. Porterdale sold on the courthouse steps on November 2,1954 to First Baptist Church of Christ, Macon for $2,710. On November 24, 1959, the property transferred from the First Baptist Church of Christ, Macon to Porterfield Baptist Church.

After 1954, Porterfield Baptist Church utilized Porterdale as a combination of church offices, Sunday School rooms, lodgings for ministers, and a meeting space, which was used by Alcoholics Anonymous.

All changes to the original house, including the additional bathroom, removal of two mantles and the corresponding walls, and the enclosure of the Covered Walk occurred in 1978 when the church renovated the property for more functional use as church offices.

In 2008, a storm moved through south Bibb County and a tree limb fell through the roof of the house.

In 2012, the Porterfield Baptist Church Board of Trustees voted to demolish the house, deciding it was too expensive to maintain. Wesleyan College, the Porter Trust, and Historic Macon Foundation brokered a deal to save the house by moving it off the church’s campus, which was executed by the Porterfield Baptist Church Board of Trustees on April 30, 2013.

The Porter House, c.1929, at its original location on Houston Road in South Macon.

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Porter House Moves to Wesleyan On November 17, 2013, the Porter House was moved approximately 12 miles from its original location on Houston Road in south Bibb County to Tucker Road on the edge of Wesleyan College’s campus.

The house was moved in two sections and placed on a new foundation that was constructed using the original Dunwody foundation plans. The bathroom addition was not moved with the rest of the house, and the infill of the covered walk was removed prior to the move.

Between November 2013 and early 2015, Wesleyan worked on completing the foundation and exterior of the Porter House, not knowing if the property would ever be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

In May 2015, Georgia’s Historic Preservation Division officially declared the James Hyde and Olive Swann Porter House eligible for listing in the National Register and plans to complete the rehabilitation began in earnest. Dunwody/Beeland, Architects, Inc. oversaw the entire moving and rehabilitation process while R.C. Poss Construction oversaw the move and the initial phase of work. Sheridan Construction completed the rehabilitation. Late in 2016, the Porter House finally completed the journey that began

with the threat of demolition in 2012. Saving this building would not have been possible without the support of the Porter Trust.

Wesleyan College plans to use this architectural treasure as an event facility. Historic Macon recognized the efforts of The Porter Trust and Wesleyan College with the Thad E. Murphey President’s Choice Award during Historic Macon’s annual meeting and preservation awards in May 2017.

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Wesleyan College’s Porter House

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Judy Hodgens

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Sally Draughon

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Valerie Garrett

Tracy Benton

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Lisa Bellwin

Carolyn Reichert

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LISA BELLWIN • Room 10 • Screened porch Lisa Bellwin works with her clients to create beautiful and functional spaces that fulfill their dream of an amazing home best suited to their lifestyle and budget. Two essential ingredients enable Lisa to create homes that fulfill her clients’ dreams…listening and translating. To bring those ingredients to life, Lisa wraps them in a love of design and creativity that enables her to understand her clients’ personalities and reflect that throughout their homes.

With a love for the outdoors, Lisa feels that outdoor spaces deserve the same attention as indoor spaces. Porches, decks and yards are an extension of our personal space and should be designed to reflect the personality of the home.

Lisa began her design career working for corporate furniture dealerships in Macon and Atlanta. She was the account designer for BellSouth while working at Ivan Allen Atlanta and later was the on-site designer and space planner for the Home Depot Headquarters in Marietta while working for DeKalb Office Environments. Her experience later transitioned into facility management and workplace transformation while working for Accenture. These experiences enable Lisa to work with commercial businesses to create functional and inspiring work spaces that promote productive and healthy work environments.

Within the last two years, Lisa opened her own design business –Bellwin Design. Bellwin Design services include all aspects of the design process and can range from consultation (guidance for your design project) to design project management (managing all steps and decisions of the design project).

Lisa graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Furnishings and Interiors.

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tracy benton • Room 3 • side porch Tracy Benton Design integrates a love of antiques in a modern way creating an interesting layered mix of traditional style with a fresh approach.

A student of the Atlanta College of Art at Woodruff Arts Center, Tracy studied design after attending University of Georgia as a journalism major. She has a passion for learning and continuing education in history, decorative arts, floral and garden design, and interior decoration. She loves rooms that have an effortless collected quality whether they are traditional or contemporary. Clients often request comfortable rooms that feel fresh in a new traditional style which she loves creating.

She specializes in giving clients their look and fulfilling their lifestyle vision.

She has designed homes and planned events for clients in Middle Georgia, Atlanta and North Carolina.

Her experience includes renovations in collaboration with renowned architects along with project management.

Tracy was featured in Spectacular Homes of Georgia as one of Georgia’s top interior designers. She has designed for the Museum of Arts and Sciences Festival of Trees, Hay House Christmas Tours, and Florabrilliance for Hay House as well as Peachtree Garden Club’s Tour of Homes in Haynes Manor. A past Cannonball House board member, she is dedicated to historic preservation, especially in her hometown. She has participated in numerous projects for Cherry Blossom Festival including transforming downtown condominium spaces for tours.

Follow Tracy on Facebook and Instagram & reach out to us: tracybentondesign.com or 404-409-0271.

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Sally Draughon • Room 2 • Great room For almost 30 years, Sally Draughon has been transforming residential and commercial interiors all over the Southeast and beyond, with her exquisite taste and vast array of design resources. Whether it be traditional, eclectic or contemporary, Sally helps each client define his or her unique vision for their home or business. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines.

Design services include custom upholstery, window treatments, rugs, art, lighting and accessories, and can range from a single-room spruceup to a total house renewal. During the design process, clients benefit from a diverse selection of rugs, fabrics, trims, wall coverings, paintings, antique and contemporary upholstered furniture as well as accessories available at Previews the shop.

Special Credits: Blues Painting and Home Repair Ginger Hess and the Previews Staff

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Valerie Garrett • Room 9 • Kitchen For more than 20 years, Valerie Garrett has offered residential and commercial clients design services of impeccable taste and a refined aesthetic. Her signature modern elegance style eschews trend for a fresh take on timelessness. The results are beautiful surroundings that foster hospitality and gracious living with refined details and statement-making expressions.

Valerie has been named to Georgia’s Top 100 Designers list and has received numerous awards for her designs and her concierge-level service to her clients. Her mantra, every last detail, means that every client’s home, office, or business is brought to life with a total commitment to ensuring every element is attended to, throughout every phase of the project, culminating in clients who are more than satisfied, they are delighted.

Valerie Garrett & Associates Interior Design, based in Macon, is a full-service interior design firm with global resources. They specialize in whole home remodeling and new construction, specialty kitchen and bath design, as well as design of leading commercial spaces. Find them online at ValerieGarrettInteriorDesign.com and on Facebook and Houzz.

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Judy Hodgens • room 1 • tower room Interior designer Judy Hodgens has been designing classic interiors for over 20 years. Judy’s approach to design is collaborative and reflects her clients’ personalities and lifestyles! The signature of Judy Hodgens Interiors includes an eclectic combination of classic furnishings and antiques with a strong connection to architectural elements. She uses color as a neutral, along with texture and pattern to bring a quiet sophistication to clients’ homes. Her style is tailored and timeless. The end result is a design that is inheritable and ages gracefully.

Judy encourages her clients to seek or refine their own style –with humor, with passion and with love; the combination accomplishes her mission.

In her spare time Judy loves great jazz, cooking, gardening, and entertaining.

Judy Hodgens dedicates this space to her friend and mentor, MARY SHERIDAN, to honor her wisdom and wit in creating beautiful interiors. Happy 90th birthday, Mary!

Special Credits: Ashley McLean Antiques Betsy Slocomb Ernest Gaspard Jerry Pair LAF, Leigh Lloyd, faux - decorative painting Travis and Company

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Scalamandre Sherwood Antiques Warno-Cam Paint Company of Macon Artists: Carol Griffin (carolgriffinfinearts.com) Lauren-Summers H. Gramm, Redbird Designs (redbirdscreations@gmail.com)

Terry Holland • Room 8 • front porch Terry has a degree in Architecture from Auburn University and has been an accredited Interior Designer for 35 years. He was attracted to this Design House due to other projects completed for Wesleyan College: Taylor Hall in 2010 with Dunwody/Beeland, Architects, Inc., Tate Hall administrative areas in 2011, and the Confucious Institute in 2013. In this case, he gathered Chinese artifacts housed all over campus and designed a gallery to exhibit them within the Willet Library.

In 2011, his partner, Jeff Logan, opened If It’s Paper in historic Ingleside Village. When shopping for space, they hoped for an area to accommodate Time to Consign, the consignment shop located in the rear of the store that is merchandised by Terry. Once that store was established, Terry mentioned to several long-time clients he was considering early retirement from his design business. Several of them encouraged him to keep working and help them downsize. In the last four years he has moved seven clients to Carlyle Place, The Gables, and to smaller houses in Macon.

Last year, he began looking for a smaller house within 60 miles of Macon for personal downsizing and closer proximity for long weekends than his house in Beaufort, SC. With some encouragement from Joni Woolf (former editor of Macon Magazine) he looked at houses in Americus, eventually purchasing a 1928 colonial revival style home in the historic district four months ago.

Terry plans to keep his office located at 227 Orange Street in Macon for several more years and is now a freelance writer for the newly launched Americus Magazine.

Special Credits: Furniture provided by Bert Maxwell Furniture, plants provided by Ace Hardware on Forsyth Road, and Decorative Accessories are from Terry’s collection

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STeve mckenzie • Room 6 • dining room An artist at heart, Steve McKenzie has found his creative niche in the interior design community, as designer and namesake behind McKenzie Design LLC and steve mckenzie’s, a home décor business, located in the heart of Atlanta’s Westside design district. Steve, along with his wife, Jill, officially opened the doors of steve mckenzie’s in September of 2012, after Steve’s 20+ year tenure with Berkshire-Hathaway owned Larson-Juhl, where he served most recently as the company’s President and CEO. Since that time, steve mckenzie’s has become a destination for interior designers and design lovers alike with an unparalleled and curated collection of home accessories, furnishings, and a line of textiles derived from Steve’s paintings, available in the steve mckenzie’s showroom, as well as other design showrooms nationwide. A practicing artist for more than 25 years, Steve has developed a unique technique, painting with walnut ink and focusing on organic composition. His fabulous new studio is located in the upper loft space of steve mckenzie’s, where he is currently working on his latest art series, inspired by botanicals. In conjunction with the retail shop’s opening in 2012, McKenzie Design LLC was also launched as a full service interior design business. Steve’s keen eye and lifelong appreciation for design, starting when he was just a boy, made this a natural progression for his career.

Since its inception, McKenzie Design LLC has completed projects throughout the Southeast and Midwest, has been published in Atlanta Homes and Lifestyle, and has been recognized by other national publications, including House Beautiful and Traditional Home for curation of the businesses’ showroom. The inception of the interior design and home décor businesses have since parlayed into product line design, an upholstery collection, a line of rugs through Verde Home and women’s fashion with a stunning line of scarves.

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carolyn reichert • room 4 • dressing room Carolyn Martin Reichert is a native of Sandy Springs, Georgia. She grew up in a home designed by her architect father. His architectural studio is located on the top floor of the family’s house, where she sat at a drafting table doing her own projects. Surrounded by all the hand drawn plans, she was naturally drawn to love architecture and design.

In 2011, she graduated from the University of Georgia with a BFA in Interior Design. After graduation, Carolyn worked on commercial interior design projects in Atlanta, first with BoggsVickers Architects and later with PFVS Architects. She then decided to join her father’s firm, DMMA, as Head of Interiors.

Since working with her father, they have collaborated on both commercial and residential projects, ranging from new custom homes in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida to a new microbrewery that’s bringing an old cotton mill back to life in Greensboro, Georgia.

While in the Art School at the University of Georgia, she spent the 2010 summer semester studying abroad in Cortona, Italy and there met Macon native, John Reichert, as he was studying for a Masters of Landscape Architecture.

In early 2014, she moved from Athens to Macon with her husband and purchased a house on Orange Terrace from Historic Macon. The two designers had the opportunity to finish the construction plans, selections, and process. Their efforts earned them a 2015 Preservation Award from Historic Macon.

Carolyn is an Allied member of the American Society of Interior Designers. When she is not working, she loves raising her two year old daughter, Wren, and spending time in their blossoming backyard.

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carrie robinson • room 5 • bedroom Growing up working in her family’s furniture stores, Carrie began her love for interior furnishings at a young age. After obtaining her undergraduate degree in Art and Photography from Mercer University, followed by a Master’s degree in Interior Design from Savannah College of Art and Design, Carrie moved back to Macon to become Historic Macon Foundation’s new Preservation Designer. Over the course of four and a half years with Historic Macon, Carrie worked on the restoration and development of over 20 properties in and around downtown Macon. In January of 2016, Carrie left Historic Macon to pursue her career in interior design full-time and expand the Robinson Home brand.

The Robinson Home team has been excited to be involved in the development of downtown Macon with the design of several restaurants and lofts, while continuing to work throughout Georgia on residential projects. Carrie’s first Historic Macon Showhouse was in 2011 and she has loved being involved with them since then. This year’s house is particularly exciting to work on after Carrie visited the Porter House years ago with Historic Macon to see if it was even possible the house could be saved. It is an exciting project to see come back to life after so many years!

Be sure to follow us on Instagram @rohointeriors.

Contact us through our website, www.robinsonhome.com.

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katherine walden • room 7 • Living rom Katherine Walden Interiors, Inc. has enjoyed a successful forty-plus years in business with a practice that has taken the firm to residences and businesses to Virginia, Florida, and west to Colorado. With a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Wesleyan College, Katherine Walden returned to school for two more years to pursue an interior design career while working as an apprentice to the late Frances Valentine who owned Interior Arts, Inc. in Macon.

Walden has been actively involved with Historic Macon Foundation, serving as a sponsor of the Design House, and the Hay House. She has served on the board of directors of each organization.

Walden is also a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in Macon Magazine, Georgia Family Magazine, and Address Macon (no longer in publication). She currently writes a weekly event column, “After Hours,” and a monthly design column for the Telegraph. Several of her design projects have been featured in Macon Magazine, Southern Living, and Restaurants and Institutions.

Although Walden’s practice has covered historic restoration and renovation, more recent projects have seen a trend toward transitional and contemporary design. Her commercial design has included restaurants, medical facilities and professional offices.

You may contact her at any of the sources listed below. Katherine Walden Interiors studio hours are 9:00am to 6:00pm five days a week but appointments are accepted for after hours and on weekends.

177 Brookstone Way Macon, Georgia 31210 • 478-742-224 (Studio) • kwaldenint@aol.com

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Schedule of Experiences 2017 Presenters Patricia Altschul Mary Kay Andrews Allan Bass Megan Carson Sabrinna Cox Richie Jones Canaan Marshall

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SCHEDULE OF EXPERIENCES THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 2017

Top Hat Party {Sponsored by United Distributing} 7-10pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $75 See the Design House before it opens to the public during one of Macon’s favorite parties. Tickets include a full bar, gourmet refreshments, and of course, the chance to see the Design House first.

Friday, JUNE 16, 2017 Design House Open 11am-7pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $20 Coffee and tea is generously provided during open hours of the Design House each day

by Jobelle Coffee and Teas.

The Art of Southern Charm with Patricia Altschul 3-4pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $25 Meet author and Bravo TV’s Southern Charm star Patricia Altschul during a book signing at the historic Porter House.

Tickets include a copy of Patricia’s recent book, The Art of Southern Charm.

Villa al Festa 5-7pm • Villa Albicini at 150 Tucker Road • $75 Explore the Villa Albicini during the premier event of Design, Wine and Dine with honored guest and Bravo TV star, Patricia Altschul. The Villa Albicini is one of Macon’s most iconic works of architecture. Both Neel Reid and Philip Schutze worked on the home to create one of the most unusual and spectacular buildings in Macon’s architectural portfolio.

During Villa al Festa, guests will be able to enter this home that is rarely open to the public. Tickets include entry to this exclusive property for a cocktail reception with gourmet refreshments and full bar.

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Saturday, JUNE 17, 2017 Design House Open 11am-7pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $20 Beach Brunch with Mary Kay Andrews 11am-1pm • Christ Church Great Hall at 582 Walnut Street • $25 Author Mary Kay Andrews will come to Macon to share her favorite recipes and the stories that inspired her latest book, The Beach House Cookbook.

Andrews has won the hearts of millions with her sense of humor and distinctly Southern storytelling in works like Deep Dish, Hissy Fit, Savannah Blues, and Fixer Upper. Tickets include an intimate hour with Mary Kay and samplings from The Beach House Cookbook. A book signing will follow the talk and books will be available for purchase during the event.

Wine Tasting with Allan Bass 3-4pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $30 Join wine connoisseur Allan Bass for a wine tasting on the lawn of the Porter House. Allan will share his passion for wine and inspire a new appreciation in wine novices to self-proclaimed experts.

Sunday, JUNE 18, 2017 Design House Open 1-4pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $20 Company’s Coming with Canaan Marshall 3-5pm • 1435 Twin Pines Drive • $35 Floral arranging extraordinaire and designer Canaan Marshall will delight audiences with his wit and skills during a floral arranging class. Canaan will teach attendees how to pull together an over-the-top, fabulous arrangement when company is on its way. This class takes place at the beautiful home of Dr. and Mrs. Harper in the historic Shirley Hills neighborhood.

monday, JUNE 19, 2017 Design House Open 11am-2pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $20 Bourbon Tasting with Richie Jones {Sponsored by Downtown Grill} 7-9pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $40 Richie Jones of Downtown Grill shares his expert knowledge of the complexities of bourbon on the lawn of the Porter House.

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Tuesday, JUNE 20, 2017 Design House Open 11am-2pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $20 Faux to Go with Sabrinna Cox 7-9pm • Room 111, Murphey Building, Wesleyan College’s Campus • $35 Faux painting is the art of replicating materials such as wood or marble.

This two-hour class gives participants the opportunity to practice techniques used by painters to create faux marble.

This class will focus on how to properly prepare a surface, choose and mix the paint, produce veining using both a brush and feather, and add depth through the use of glazes. Learning these basic techniques enables you to take your faux to go. All skill levels are welcome! Please wear clothes or apron appropriate for painting.

Wednesday, JUNE 21, 2017 Design House Open 11am-2pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $20 Flow and Froth with Sparks Yoga 6:30-8pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $25 Megan Carson, owner and instructor of Sparks Yoga, downtown’s newest yoga studio, will lead yoga on the lawn of the Porter House. Megan’s husband, Josh, will provide tunes to keep the flow in rhythm. Following the stretch, join fellow yogis for complimentary beer from Piedmont Brewery and Kitchen and coffee from Jobelle. Attendees need to bring their own mat and towel, water will be provided. All skill levels welcome!

Thursday, JUNE 22, 2017 Design House Open 11am-2pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $20 Progress Club: A Preservation Pop-up Speakeasy 7-10pm • Newman Building at 690 First Street • $15 Explore one of Macon’s downtown buildings during a pop-up speakeasy.

Tickets include lite bites and four handcrafted cocktails inspired by the history of the former Progress Club. This event is made possible through the generosity of the Downtown Challenge Fund of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia.

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Design House Open 11am-7pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $20

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Saturday, JUNE 24, 2017 Design House Open 11am-7pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $20 Mod Crawl {Sponsored by ADAC} 7-10pm • Shirley Hills • $50 Experience the historic Shirley Hills neighborhood in the best way possible, with food and drink! This progressive supper includes courses with cocktails in three of Macon’s mid-century masterpieces .

Pool Party {Sponsored by Moonhanger Group} 10pm-12am • 1185 Nottingham Drive • $15 Party by the pool in Shirley Hills to close out 2017’s Design, Wine and Dine! Tickets include drinks and light bites.

Sunday, JUNE 18, 2017 Design House Open 1-4pm • Porter House at 231 Tucker Road • $20

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PATRICIA ALTSCHUL Patricia Altschul has been featured in publications including Vogue, Town & Country, Architectural Digest, and People; and she is the surprise break-out star of the Bravo hit reality series, Southern Charm. Wise, cultivated, elegant, and funny, Patricia is a consummate hostess and a lifestyle icon whose unique combination of antebellum class and sass has endeared her to fans of all ages.

Patricia has earned her status as a preeminent tastemaker. She received her Master’s Degree from George Washington University, where she lectured on Art History, and was a highly-successful art advisor who also amassed her own art collection. In addition to being an academic and a philanthropist, she has done a life-long tour-of-duty at the top of the social ladder in Washington, D.C.,Oyster Bay, and on Manhattan’s storied Fifth Avenue, where she observed – and ultimately dictated – the modern-day rules of civility. Pat has a glorious brain, the best legs, a killer sense of humor, and expertly curates every aspect of her life.

Meet Patricia Altschul

The Art of Southern Charm • Friday, June 16 • 3-4pm • Porter House (231 Tucker Rd) Villa al Festa! • Friday, June 16 • 5-7pm • Villa Albicini (150 Tucker Rd)

James Bell | Sales Representative MASCO Coating Groups jabell@behrpaint.com Tel 706.963.9106 | behr.com

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MARY KAY ANDREWS Mary Kay Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including The Weekenders, Beach Town, Ladies’ Night, Summer Rental, Deep Dish and Hissy Fit. A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, she received a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia and was a newspaper reporter for 14 years. The last ten years of her career were spent as a features reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Tom Trocheck, with whom she has a 40-year (and counting) collaboration yielding two grown children, two adorable grandchildren and countless memorable kitchen experiences. After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she spent the final ten years of her career, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction. Her first novel, Every Crooked Nanny, was published in 1992 by HarperCollins Publishers. She went on to write ten critically acclaimed mysteries under her real name. In 2002, she assumed the pen name Mary Kay Andrews with the publication of Savannah Blues.

In 2006, Hissy Fit became her first New York Times bestseller, followed by eleven more New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestsellers.

Meet Mary Kay Andrews

Beach Brunch with Mary Kay • Saturday, June 17 • 11am-1pm • Christ Church Great Hall (582 Walnut St)

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Allan Bass Allan started his wine career as a waiter at several restaurants here in Macon before moving to Virginia, Athens, then down to the Virgin Islands where he really began his fine wine education.

In 1999, Allan opened his first restaurant that went on to win five awards of excellence from Wine Spectator magazine. During his restaurant years, Allan was also honored to be a contestant on a nationally aired reality show called The Wine Makers, which was filmed in the Central Coast of California.

Allan was also honored to be a judge at the world’s largest wine competition in Macon, France.

After leaving the restaurant business, Allan transitioned into work with a wine wholesaler and continues today as a Certified Sommelier and wine consultant for Eagle Rock distributors

Meet Allan Bass

Wine Tasting with Allan Bass • Saturday, June 17 • 3-4pm • Porter House (231 Tucker Rd)

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Megan Carson Sparks Yoga founders, Megan and Josh Carson, both grew up in Macon. When they decided to permanently put roots down here, they knew they wanted these roots to extend beyond simply living in Macon. They witnessed downtown come back to life over the last several years and saw a great opportunity to integrate one of their passions into this growing community.

Megan has been teaching yoga since 2012, when she earned her teacher’s certification at Atlanta Peachtree Yoga. In addition to teaching in Macon and Atlanta, she has taught yoga internationally and worked in Costa Rica assisting in a training program for new yoga instructors.

With the opening of Sparks Yoga, Megan and Josh sought to build a dynamic space that is welcoming to all. Whether you’ve tried yoga or it’s your first class, you will find what you’re looking for here: Sparks Yoga has experienced yoga teachers who provide classes that fit every body and every skill level. Sparks is a place where you will find inspiration through your own yoga practice and through those around you. It is a community that grows together and encourages one another, with the goal of being a positive source of light to everyone who walks in the door.

Meet Megan Carson

Flow and Froth with Sparks Yoga • Wednesday, June 21 • 6:30-8pm • Porter House (231 Tucker Rd)

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Sabrinna Cox Sabrinna lived in Bluffton, South Carolina for 14 years before moving to Macon to become the Preservation Designer at HMF. During her time in South Carolina, she made a living as a Set Designer and Props Master for the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. Part-time she worked as a faux finisher working on a number of projects, most notably the lobby of Melrose Inn on Daufuskie Island.

Recently she returned to school earning a MFA in Historic Preservation at Savannah College of Art and Design. Since graduating she has worked with Lominack Kolman Smith Architects, Celebrate Bluffton, and the Bluffton Historical Preservation Society as well as assisting with rehabilitation projects in and around Savannah. In her free time, Sabrinna continues to design scenery and museum exhibits for organizations in South Carolina.

Meet Sabrinna Cox

Faux to Go with Sabrinna Cox • Tuesday, June 20 • 7-9pm • Room 111, Murphey Building, Wesleyan College’s Campus

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Richie Jones Richie Jones is a successful fine dining restaurateur, an outstanding bartender, and an avid craft beer enthusiast. For years, Richie has owned and operated Downtown Grill, a Macon institution. Richie has wanted to diversify his restaurant ownership for some time now and, along with Brian and Trish Whitley, has established Piedmont Brewery & Kitchen, a unique downtown brewpub that opened in March, offering hand-crafted beer, honest food, and a family-friendly urban arcade.

Richie has travelled the United States extensively and has always looked for unique menu items that he can bring to diners right here in Middle Georgia.

Meet Richie Jones

Bourbon Tasting with Richie Jones • Monday, June 19 • 7-9pm • Porter House (231 Tucker Rd)

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Canaan Marshall Canaan Marshall has the energy that makes you want to celebrate each day as if it were your last. That celebration is evident in everything he touches, from thoughtfully curated rooms to beautifully crafted floral designs.

He is best known as the vibrant personality to turn your everyday into elegance. He especially values the relationship with each client. “Your style should speak for you,” he notes. An old soul, he has a natural knack for learning the personalities of his clients from the onset, placing their own personal style into planning rooms that are equally intriguing and inviting.

Canaan is a Macon native and graduate of Mercer University. He has been featured in Southern Living, Traditional Homes, Macon Magazine, and The Atlantan. His work takes him all over the Southeast, but he is proud to call Macon home.

Meet Canaan Marshall

Company’s Coming Floral Arranging Class • Sunday, June 18 • 3-5pm • 1435 Twin Pines Drive

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index of advertisers 11th Hour

ADAC Adams Law Firm Appraisal Associates Argo Moore Landscapring Atlanta Gas Light AVI B&D Industrial Behr Paint Corporation Bike Tech Cabinets ‘N Woodworks Canaan Marshall Design Capital City Bank Coliseum Health System Conditioned Air, Inc. Cox Communications Dunwody Insurance Eye Center of Central Georgia Georgia Artisan Georgia Public Broadcasting Greene and Associates

4 22 4 4 45 42 4 8 36 8 33 8 46 12 40 2 12 47 12 16 39

Infinity Network Solutions, Inc. 41 Interior Surfaces Group, LLC 12 J. Cameron Garvin, DMD 33 John-Wesley Villas 27 Lisenby & Associates 19 Lowe Lighting Center 18 Macon Magazine 44 Macon Productions 14 Macon Telegraph 26 McNair, McLemore, 28

Middlebrooks & Co, LLC Mercer University 14 Navicent Health 17 New Atlantic Realty- 28

RDG Ventures Noland Company 35 OneSouth Bank 20 R.C. Poss Construction, LLC 43 Renasant Bank 28 SCANA Energy 28 Schwartz Residential Roofing 34

Sheridan Construction Signature Dentistry of Macon State Bank & Trust Company SunTrust Bank The Brick The Brokery, LLC The Creek The Jones Center The McSwain Young Maley

Group at Merrill Lynch Tony Butler Home Design

& Construction Trading Post Vein Specialists of the South Waites & Foshee Warner Robins Building

Supply Co. WarnoCam Women for Women’s Health YSY Construction

24 34 34 15 37 34 15 14 14 8 23 5 21 15 38 15 25

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Thank you to our generous Preservation Partners!

Griffith Family E.J. Grassmann Trust Charitable Foundation, Inc. Georgia Power Foundation Beverly B. Meadors Fund

ELAM ALEXANDER TRUST

YSY Construction

Appraisal Associates