From Chad (with a couple of edits): “We the citizens of Atlanta bought this building earlier this year. Not to save it would be a tragedy. It is one of the oldest buildings in the city – (1869) on the campus of one of the first African American higher educational institutions – the Atlanta University Center (Spelman, […]
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Photo Pick: Margaret Mitchell House by Chad Carlson
From Chad Carlson: Margaret Mitchell House, 1989. Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, lived in the basement apartment. She wrote Gone With the Wind in that apartment. Daimler Benz Mercedes saved the house in 1996. Numerous attempts were made to burn it down by arsonists during the rehabilitation. It was used as a reception […]
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Photo Pick: Front room at the Atlanta Preservation Center by Chad Carlson
Front room at the Atlanta Preservation Center (APC) on St. Paul. Ave. in Grant Park. The fireplace surround was found buried in the backyard during the rehabilitation of this home which was built by L.P. Grant in the 1850s. One of only a few pre-Civil War homes left in metro Atlanta. L.P. Grant built the […]
