The Glenns

             Glenridge Hall holds many ties with Atlanta history. TK’s sister Flora married Asa Candler’s eldest son Charles Howard Candler, and they built the Tudor-style “Callanwolde” (1920), now the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center of DeKalb County. TK’s first wife Agnes (1882-1914), by whom TK had two sons Wadley Raoul and Wilbur Fisk, was a daughter of Captain William Greene Raoul who built the Mexican National and the Southern railroads.

             After thirteen years as a widower, in 1927 TK married Elizabeth Ewing (1887-1970), who among many other achievements organized and funded the building a wing called “Memory Lane” onto the original High Museum of Art (now Woodruff Arts Center).

             In partnership with Ernest Woodruff, TK Glenn is best known as president and chairman of the Trust Company of Georgia, today Sun Trust Bank. The eldest son of a Methodist minister, TK began his career as a clerk in Atlanta in 1887 and then became executive secretary to Joel Hurt in developing the Atlanta Electric Streetcar Company, today known as Georgia Power. TK was also a driving force in founding and/or developing Atlantic Steel, the Rabun-Gap-Nacoochee School, the Fulton-Dekalb Hospital Authority (today Grady Hospital), and many other business and philanthropic interests in the Southeast.

             Dr. Wadley Glenn (1905-1985), TK’s eldest son, lived in Glenridge Hall from 1929 to 1951. As well as a surgeon, Dr. Glenn was also Medical Director of Crawford Long Hospital for over forty years.

             Glenn Memorial Chapel on the Emory campus, as well as the “Glenn” buildings at Grady Memorial Hospital, Crawford Long Hospital, and the “Wilbur & Hilda Glenn” building at Children’s Healthcare’s Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital all exemplify a strong history of Glenn family philanthropy.

             It was the intention of Frances Glenn Mayson (1946-1987), TK’s only granddaughter, that Glenridge be preserved in perpetuity and maintained as a “living” home as closely as possible to its original appearance and natural park-like setting. It was also her intent that Glenridge serve the Atlanta-Sandy Springs community, especially by hosting civic and charity events. Frances Glenn Mayson moved back into the Hall in 1980 to begin restoration, but tragically died in childbirth in 1987, leaving her husband Joseph Mayson to carry on her dream.