Adyar (campus)
On April 23, 1882, the Founders arrived by ship at Madras, where they met T. Subba Row, Judge G. Muthuswamy Chetty and his sons G. Soobiah Chetty and G. Narasimhulu Chetty, among others. On May 31 the Chetty brothers took them to see a piece of property they recommended as the new headquarters site for the Theosophical Society: the "Huddlestone's Gardens". The Huddlestone family had been granted some property south of the Adyar River in the late 1780s, on which they built a country or "garden" house. But now the twenty-seven-acre property, containing a large house, two cottages, and other facilities, was on sale.
When the Founders saw the Huddlestone's Gardens Mme. Blavatsky declared "Master wants this purchased". Col. Olcott wrote that "at first glance [we] knew that our future home was found".
On November 17, exactly seven years after the founding of the Theosophical Society the sale was completed and the title to the property passed to the Society.[1]
Online resources
Video
- Adyar: Home of the Theosophical Society by Steve Schweizer (Documentary)
Additional resources
- Official TS Adyar website
- Adyar TS Estate: Descriptions, Books, Maps, Videos, & Photos compiled by Daniel Cladwell
Notes
- ↑ Adele Algeo, "Blavatsky at Adyar--From her Letters", The Theosophist 129:9 (June 2008),340.