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Welcome from our Co-Presidents

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The Fairbanks Garden Club Co-Presidents Patricia Aucoin and Jodi Rand

Throughout The Fairbanks Garden Club's history, it has maintained a close relationship with the historic 1637 Fairbanks House Museum, the oldest timber-frame house in North America.

Our garden club maintains perennial borders at the historic homestead and volunteers at the Fairbanks Family in America reunions each summer. In 1982, the club designed and documented a colonial herb garden at the house for which the club won an award from The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts. 

In addition to maintaining gardens at the The Fairbanks House Museum, the club maintains two historical markers, decorates holiday wreaths for local institutions, makes donations to the Dedham Food Pantry, and holds an annual plant sale.

The club meets the third Wednesday of the month from September through May, except for January. Unless otherwise noted, we meet at 11:30 a.m. for lunch at the town-owned Endicott Estate, 656 East Street, Dedham. Following lunch, we hold a business meeting and have either a speaker or a workshop. 

The Fairbanks Garden Club is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
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Wednesday
May 21, 2025

11:00 am Annual Meeting,
Elections, and Luncheon

Olde Colonial Café
171 Nahatan Street
Norwood, MA

Please note early time
Members only
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
Margaret Atwood

The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts

The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. is organized: 

To coordinate the interests of garden clubs of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and to bring them into closer relations of mutual helpfulness by association, conferences and correspondence.

To aid in the protection and conservation of natural resources.

To promote civic beauty, roadside improvements and historic preservation.

To advance the art of gardening and flower arranging and to encourage education in the areas of ecology, horticulture and landscape design.

The Fairbanks House Museum

The Fairbanks House Museum in Dedham, MA is thought to be the oldest standing timber frame building in North America. Built circa 1637-1641 for Jonathan and Grace Fairebanke and their six children, it was home to eight generations of the Fairbanks family. 

The Fairbanks House Museum is open annually May 1 -- October 31.

The Endicott Estate

Situated on 15 acres of rolling lawns surrounded by century old elms, spruce and weeping willow trees, the twenty-five room Estate boasts eleven fireplaces and provides a charm and elegance rarely found today.

An architectural gem, the Endicott Estate has the distinction of being listed on the National Register of Historic Places and plays a vital role in the local community and beyond as a place for year-round recreation, weddings, corporate and private events, art shows, car shows, summer concerts and movie filming.

Dedham, MA

Dedham, Massachusetts is located southwest of Boston and was Settled in 1635 by people from Roxbury and Watertown. Dedham was incorporated in 1636. It became the county seat of Norfolk County when the county formed on March 26, 1793. When the Town was originally incorporated, the residents wanted to name it Contentment. The Massachusetts General Court overruled them and named the town after Dedham, Essex in England, where some of the original inhabitants were born.