Meadow Garden, House museum in Augusta, United States.
Meadow Garden is a house museum located on Independence Drive in Augusta containing a wooden residential structure with six bays, gabled dormers, and a front porch with Doric columns. The building reflects early 19th-century architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a public landmark.
George Walton, one of Georgia's three signers of the Declaration of Independence, resided here from 1791 until his death in 1804. The property was converted into a museum in 1901 by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The house displays Sand Hills Cottage architectural style through its irregular facade with two doors and four asymmetrically positioned windows. This arrangement was typical of the practical building approach used in the area during that era.
Meadow Garden stands at 1320 Independence Drive on the west side of downtown Augusta, with the Augusta Canal Historic Walking Trail running between the house and the canal, just east of the Sutherland Mill. The grounds sit on a high brick basement, so the museum entrance is reached by steps rather than a ramp.
The house was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934–35, and its measured drawings remain part of that national archive. It joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and was raised to National Historic Landmark status in 1981.
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