Körner’s Folly Launches Pergola Restoration Campaign with June Garden Party Fundraiser
KERNERSVILLE, NC — Körner’s Folly Foundation has officially launched restoration efforts for the historic Pergola located on the north-rear side of the property, accompanied by a new public fundraising campaign and a celebratory summer event, Party for the Pergola, taking place Thursday, June 4, from 5–8 pm.
Originally constructed as part of the Körner family’s children’s playhouse before later serving as an entrance feature to the estate’s stable complex, the pergola remains one of the most distinctive surviving landscape structures on the property. Though modest in scale, the structure reflects Jule Gilmer Körner’s characteristic improvisational design sensibility — adapting, reusing, and reshaping architectural forms over time…