The last chatelaine of Beattie house was Mary Caroline Mayes Beattie, wife of John Edgerton Beattie, who lived in the house until her death in 1938.  Not long afterward, in 1946, the city of Greenville purchased the property to provide space for the widening of Church Street.  The women of the Crescent Garden Club, fearful that the house would deteriorate or be razed, joined with then Mayor J. Kenneth Cass in approaching the Greenville City Council with a request that the house be moved and leased to the women's organizations of Greenville.  The request was granted and the Greenville Woman's Club offically opened on May 19, 1949.

Today Beattie House stands serene and graceful amid tall trees, green lawns and a lovely garden.  Within, period furnishings remain in their original dignity amid contemporary facilities that make the house a comfortable easy place in which to assemble.

In the year 2006 Beattie House, a home still mellow and warm with hospitality will mark its 172nd birthday.  Beattie House is the second oldest residence in Greenville County and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Welcome to historic Beattie House, the meeting place of the Greenville Woman's Club and host to many other civic and social gatherings of the upstate's most distinguished organizations and citizens.

Fountain Fox Beattie, a Greenville attorney, built the center section of this stately Georgia-style mansion in 1834 for his bride, Emily Hamlin of Charleston.  At that time, Greenville was a small place described by one writer (with some exaggeration) as a "rude frontier village in which there was one carriage, two pianos and a surprising lack of silver spoons".

Emily and Fountain Fox Beattie and their home, then located at 300 East North were among the influences that began the transformation of that rude frontier village into today's bustling culturally blessed community of more than 100,000 residents.

Members of the Beattie family made this their home for 104 years.  In the course of time, the family added two wings to the house. On the grounds, successive generations of the family planted and shaped boxwoods and nurtured a variety of shrubs and trees - some of them of notable size and grandeur.  In time, the local Greenville people began to refer to the house and its grounds as the Arboretum.

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