4339 Park Ave. Memphis, TN
Circa 1939. Large 2-story brick Georgian style mansion
Hugo Norton Dixon (1892-1974) and Margaret Oates Dixon (1900-1974) wed in 1926. Dixon had emigrated from England after World War I. He worked in Dallas and Houston, Texas and accumulated a fortune in the cotton business.
Dixon went to Memphis when his company Geo. H. McFadden and Bro. moved to Memphis. The Dixons purchased 17 acres from Cook estate (Oaksedge) and constructed their home from old brick of a torn down cotton warehouse. The gardens were designed by Margaret’s sister, Hope Crutchfield. They began collecting art early and eventually had focus on French art of 19th & 20th century
Winter at Dixon Home with the Dogs
Dixon was president of the Board of Trustees of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and in 1947 he was King of the Memphis Cotton Carnival. Dixon was a president of the Cotton Council International, and also he helped keep Memphis on the tour circuit of the Metropolitan Opera.
Margaret was a founder and first president of the Memphis College of Art. Board member of the Crippled Children’s Hospital.
Because they were childless, they established the Hugo Dixon Foundation in 1958 to keep the estate intact. Hugo and Margaret tragically died separately in 1974. The foundation now supports The Dixon Gallery and Gardens which opened in 1975. See Oaksedge
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