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Garden Club’s Doll House gets repairs
The Aiken Garden Club Council, in cooperation with the City of Aiken and the Friends of Hopelands and Rye Patch Inc., are sprucing up the Council’s headquarters in Hopelands Gardens.
The Council’s longtime home, the Doll House, is one of the oldest remaining outbuildings on the former Iselin estate, dating back to the early 1900s, according to Friends of Hopelands and Rye Patch President Joe Spencer. All of the outbuildings on the property are showing signs of wear and tear, Spencer said.
“It’s sort of an ongoing situation with Hopelands Gardens and Rye Patch. The buildings are all more than 100 years old,” he said. “The Friends have pushed for not just Band-Aid repairs to the buildings but to upgrade and get everything done right. There are underlying structural things that need to be done in the future.” Full Details….
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Area facility is approved for equine reproduction work
Equine Performance Vets at the Aiken Complex is the first and only facility in South Carolina approved for processing and exporting frozen semen and embryos to the European Union.
“We’ve done a lot of reproduction work in Aiken since I’ve been here – every year it’s doubled and quadrupled – and now it’s pretty busy during the repro(duction) season, and that’s the majority of what we do during that season,” said Dr. Sabrina Jacobs with Equine Performance Vets.
Aiken has a strong contingent of upper level riders and horses, and Jacobs saw the need for the services that Equine Performance Vets is now offering.
“I had a couple of customers that I tried to organize some things for last year, and they would have either had to travel to Florida or go north to get certain things accomplished,” said Jacobs. “I decided I was going to do it myself.”
The site had to be inspected and approved based on the requirements established by the European Union, said Jacobs. The facility has to have a lot of space requirements and has to be able to offer areas for the separation of horses.
Equine Performance Vets also added a new control-rate freezer this year, which is critical for freezing semen, she said.
Renovation formed stables into now-restaurant, bar
Rose Hill Estate has parked a new eatery in the stables to go with the historic bed and breakfast.
The Stables Restaurant and Bar opened last fall after extensive renovations to make the outbuilding a warm and habitable space for diners, with a full commercial kitchen, patio and pavilion, a beer garden and separate off-street parking. Work on The Stables began in 2005, according to Rose Hill owner Steve Mueller.
“I always tell people that every square inch of it needed some level of attention – changing the terrain outdoors, the floors, the walls, the heating and air, adding the kitchen,” he said. “While we were working on the building we did buffets in there, to get people used to thinking of it as a dining space. I looked up online for historic estates with stables restaurants, and there’s only the Biltmore and one in the Hudson Valley in New York that I could find. So for visitors, it’s a joy to see something that’s Old Aiken.”
The renovation to the stables is part of the long-term vision for the property Mueller and his co-owner, mother Eva Mueller, had for Rose Hill when they bought the estate in 2002. At the main house, the upstairs is given over to bed and breakfast lodgings, and on the first floor, there are rentable spaces for meetings, receptions and parties. The Muellers always planned to have a separate restaurant on the property. Full Details……
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