It has been celebrated as “America’s most beautiful college campus,” and it is unquestionably the largest, encompassing 27,000 acres of woodlands, mountain trails and wilderness populated with a remarkable range of wildlife (including, of course, our world-famous Berry College eagles). Famous for its architecture as well as for its natural beauty and the spiritual affinity that imbues its community, Berry College is, by any measure, a beautiful place to retire.
LIFE IS LOOKING UP: THE HISTORY BEHIND THE SPIRES.
College. It’s a place where we come to look forward to a life of virtually unlimited promise. At The Spires at Berry College, the same will be true of retirement.
In 1902, when Martha Berry opened a school for academically able but economically challenged children on the grounds of her family farm in Rome, her goal was to raise aspirations. Looking upward, Martha believed, was the first step toward achieving one’s highest hopes and dreams.
Accordingly, as the Berry School grew from five students in its first year into an internationally recognized institution of higher learning with more than two thousand undergraduates, spires have featured prominently in the architecture of the campus.
So, to describe a senior living community that will harmonize with both the surrounding beauty and the embracing culture of the College and lifelong learning, The Spires is not just the right name. It’s the right idea.
For people who have higher aspirations for their retirement experience, The Spires will rise to the occasion. Here, residents can rediscover the pleasures of a learning environment without the rigors of a curriculum. Sit in on classes, attend concerts, lectures, plays and sporting events—partake fully in the menu of cultural, spiritual and intellectual opportunities on the Berry College campus.
But just as importantly, here on the 27,000-acre preserve Martha Berry bequeathed to Berry College, there is ample room and time to reflect, explore and appreciate what life in retirement can and should be.
