Multi-million-dollar Purdy Center to open at Brookgreen Gardens in Jan. 2026
The Purdy Center will serve as the new Welcome Center for Murrells Inlet-based Brookgreen Gardens and will provide additional event and educational program space, and include a new Contemporary Conservatory.
The largest in a series of capital projects taken on by Brookgreen in recent years, The Purdy Center will transform the campus, welcoming guests from around the world and enabling Brookgreen to expand horticulture programs. Outside its famous beaches, the Hammock Coast’s most visited and famous attractions is undoubtedly Brookgreen Gardens, which Anna and Archer Hyatt Huntington opened in 1931.
With The Purdy Center, something unique will happen at Brookgreen for the first time: bringing a small part of the thousands of acres of gardens inside a facility…