Miss Sims' Garden receives donation for renovations

Miss Sims Garden recently received a $9,644.81 check for Miss Sims Garden Botanical Park from the Homewood Historical Preservation Society.

"In the spirit for which these funds were raised and donated, we will use some of the funds to determine the level of restoration that is possible for the Sims house which includes a front porch (as seen in the photo attached from the 1950 tax assessment), and certain landscape features such as the chert rock walls demarcating the property along Highland Road which were constructed in the 1920s," said the garden's executive director Amy Weis.

Weis said the garden will apply for historical registration at the state and federal level and hope to secure more funds to restore the house so they can convert it to an accessible event space.

Recommendations for historical preservation specialists should contact Weis at (205) 332-0949, she said.

-- Submitted by Amy Weis