Activist, maverick and visionary — Those are a few words used to describe Frederick Law Olmsted, the iconic landscape planner. Even if you don’t know him by name, if you’re an Atlantan, you’ve almost certainly visited one of his parks. On the bicentennial anniversary of Olmsted’s birth — April 26 — landscape, history and park […]
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Final resting place
At the intersection of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Oakdale Road sits a grand old home, one of many along that stretch of Ponce. Built for well-heeled Atlantans, many of the homes, including this one, are no longer residences but, unlike most of the grand homes that once lined Ponce, this home is memorialized in […]
