Classes
Preserving and sharing traditional skills and hand crafts have been an integral part of our mission since we first opened in 2022. Well Made works with regional artists and teachers to provide high quality workshops and classes. Beginning in 2025, we began working with the University of North Georgia’s Appalachian Studies Center, at the historic Vickery House. Art and music, food and dance~ the things that make life richer and sweeter.
Expressive Mono Printing: Painterly Patterns on ClaySat, Sep 13Dahlonega
Power-Carving a Raptor FeatherSun, Oct 26Dahlonega
Events
Song and dance, Art and Music. We gather together to experience the best that Dahlonega has to offer~ join us, won’t you?
ABOUT US
Well Made Goods
On the downtown square of Dahlonega you’ll find us~
At the crossroads of tradition and irreverence, craft and art.
Our collection has been guided by the beauty of nature and the logic of dreams,
The spark of creativity and the dedication to craft. While you can never be sure what you’ll find, it will always be
Well Made
VICKERY HOUSE
The Vickery House
The Historic Vickery House is the headquarters of the Georgia Appalachian Studies Center. The house was first built around 1860 by John D. Fields, the deputy sheriff of Dahlonega. It was later owned by local politician Weir Boyd, who presented it to his daughter Mattie following her marriage to B.P. Gaillard in 1877. The Gaillards added three rooms in the rear and lived in the house until they sold it to Dr. Elias Benton Vickery, a professor of Latin language and literature who renovated the home between 1895 and 1908. Today, the two-story Folk Victorian house and its surrounding acreage remain essentially the same as upon Dr. Vickery's death in 1929.
In 1974, the Vickery heirs gifted the house to the Dahlonega Club to restore and use as a community center, library and local history museum. The Dahlonega Club restored the house in 1976 as a bicentennial project. In 2007, the club donated the 3,065 square foot building and 1.296 acres of land to the university to "provide the Center a strong physical presence in the community that will enhance the Center's ability to fulfill its mission to contribute to the quality of life of Georgia Appalachian community through service, preservation, education, awareness, and collaboration" (USG Board of Regents, 2007).
SARGENT BUILDING
Sargent
Building
The first building on the site was a trading post (c. 1830) known as “the Bruce Stand.” Sheriff John F. Sargent purchased the site in 1908 and razed the existing structure to build the present building, which opened as the Dahlonega Hotel in 1911. The lobby and dining room occupied the first floor; hotel rooms were upstairs. Some of the first to book rooms, Sheriff Sargent later learned were the notorious bandit, Bill Miner (aka The Gray Fox), and his accomplices.
The building became known as The Head Corner (c. 1925-1937) when it was purchased by college physician Dr. Homer Head. He boarded college students upstairs and maintained his own office and pharmacy on the ground floor.
On Dahlonega’s 150th birthday (1983), the Sargent Building was included in the Dahlonega Historic Commercial District on the National Register of Historic Places. Extensive renovations were completed in 1984, and the building now houses well made Dahlonega and the grey fox
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