Welcome to the 881st Metamorphosis Monday! Before we get into today’s post, in case you find it helpful, here’s what my pest control company did last week to prevent any more squirrels from accidentally falling down my chimney in the future. (Ha! I can’t believe I just wrote that sentence!) They added screening all around the opening, as seen in this photo below.
When the workman first climbed up to take a look, as he was shining his flashlight into the opening, a squirrel flew out of the chimney, briefly landing on the ceiling of the screened porch before jumping down to the deck and off the deck into the yard. He checked to make sure there were no more squirrels nesting on the narrow ledge just inside the chimney before screening it off.
Now that we have that bit of squirrel news out of the way, let’s get to the fun stuff! One of the things I look forward to at Christmastime is a great Christmas home tour. This past week, a friend and I had the opportunity to take a wonderful tour through the Tate House, a pink marble palace built in 1926 in Tate, Georgia. The Tate House is a private home, but it’s also available for weddings. With the gorgeous views that surround this home, it’s perfect for that. I took quite a few photos to share and will do that over the upcoming weeks. Today, I am sharing an incredible, awe-inspiring Christmas tree we saw in the dining room of the home.
Here’s a bit of history from the Tate House website sharing how this marble palace came to be built:
In 1834, Samuel Tate purchased the land the Tate House stands on and moved his family from Lumpkin County, Georgia. His son, Stephen Tate, began the mining of marble, which eventually placed Tate, Georgia on the map. It was Stephen Tate’s son, the eldest of his 19 children, known as “Colonel Sam Tate,” who consolidated the marble interests and gained control by 1917. Designed by the International Architectural Firm of Walker and Weeks, Cleveland, Ohio, building began in 1921. Legends were told of a rare, bright pink marble, referred to as “Etowah” marble. In 1920-21, Colonel Sam began watching the rare Etowah Pink Marble that came from the quarry just behind the house…