Historic Sites and Districts

*2 Collier Road Apartments

2 Collier Rd., NE This excellent example of the Colonial Revivalstyle was built in 1929 by Henry Rice, the first of several apartments built along Collier Road. At the time of its construction, apartment house living was beginning to rise in popularity and gain acceptance.

*Canton Apartments

2840-2846 Peachtree Rd. Built in the 1920s in the English Renaissance style, as opposed to the more common Garden Apartment/Courtyard style, it and other nearby apartments served as a buffer between nearby mansions and the increasing commercialization of Peachtree Rd.

*22-24 Collier Road Apartments

22-24 Collier Rd. Built in 1929 by J.W. Jenkins and J.G. Crockett, these apartments are brick with Mediterranean-Revival-style details and a good representation of small apartments in 1920s Buckhead.

*Cecil and Hermione Alexander House

2232 Mt. Paran Rd., NW Completed in 1957, this modern circular plan house was designed by Atlanta architect Cecil Alexander as his family home.

Andrews-Dunn House

2801 Andrews Dr., NW Prior to 1910, this house belonged to Wesley Collier and Sarah Hicks, daughter of Henry Irby, founder of Buckhead.

Bitsy Grant Tennis Center

2125 Northside Dr., NW The Bitsy Grant Tennis Center is an historic tennis facility with 23 lighted hard and clay courts, plus three new platform courts. It is named after Bryan Morel “Bitsy” Grant (1910-1986), a long-time Atlanta tennis legend known for his remarkable lob and drop-shot. The Center is an Atlanta Historic Landmark and in 2012 was awarded The Georgia Trust’s Excellence in Restoration award. It is also the home of the Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association.

Brookhaven Historic District

This area surrounds Capital City Country Club and is roughly enclosed by Peachtree Rd. and Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd. This early 20th century suburb, planned as a golf course/country club community, is the oldest such community in Georgia. The curvilinear street plan, naturalistic landscaping, and architecture are representative of styles popular from the 1910s to the outbreak of World War II.

Brookwood Hills District

The area enclosed by and closely surrounding Peachtree St., Huntington Rd., and Brighton Rd. Enfamin and Arthur Burdett developed this limited-access, enclave-type subdivision with curvilinear streets and park-like landscaping in the style of Frederick Law Olmstead in the 1920s for the upper middle class.

*Buckhead Forest Neighborhood

A triangle bounded by Peachtree, Piedmont, and Roswell roads, it houses middle-price residences built in the 1960s, back to 1910. On Shadowlawn Avenue, developed around 1910, houses are closer together and closer to the street and sidewalk to facilitate walking along sidewalks to the then closest streetcar stop. You can see how time progressed in this neighborhood and appreciate the changes as you walk through time.

Garden Hills Historic District

The area bordered on three sides by Delmont Dr., Brentwood Dr., and Peachtree Rd. This early 20th century suburban development, with its curvilinear streets set into the natural topography, architect-designed homes, schools, clubhouse, church, small commercial strip, and apartment buildings, is divided into three sections (PeachtreeBeverly Hills, Country Club, and Brentwood).

*Gresham Building

215 West Wieuca Rd., NW The former Fulton County Almshouse built in 1911, and after 1932, Haven Home, in Buckhead’s Chastain Park, is listed for its contributions to the social welfare of Fulton County, and as a rich Atlanta example of Neoclassical Revival-style architecture. It is one of five main buildings that form today’s Galloway School.

**May Patterson Goodrum House (also known as the Peacock House)

320 West Paces Ferry Rd. Formerly the Southern Center for International Studies, this English Regency-style residence was designed by Philip Trammell Shutze and completed in 1932, and said to be his favorite residential commission in Atlanta. Purchased in 2008 by the Watson-Brown Foundation, which is currently undertaking its thorough restoration. Until restoration is complete, tour requests must be submitted to Tad Brown, president of the Watson-Brown Foundation.

Hermi’s Bridge

Parallel to Paces Ferry Bridge over the Chattahoochee River and over 100 years old, this structure is named for civic leader Hermi Alexander, who lost her life in an auto accident nearby.

*Mrs. George Arthur Howell, Jr. House

400 W. Paces Ferry Rd. This Neo-Classical Revival house, designed by the Atlanta architectural firm of Cooper & Cooper, was built in 1932 on what was then the outskirts of Atlanta.

*William and Ruth Knight Lustron House

1976 Northside Dr. Erected in May 1949 as the original Lustron dealer demonstration home for the Atlanta area franchise, this house is an excellent and intact example of post World War II prefabricated housing, popular at the time due to the housing shortage after the war.

The Knox Apartments, Cauthorn House, and Peachtree Road Apartments Historic District

2214-2230 Peachtree Rd., NE This district, with its three historic apartment buildings, one historic home, mature trees, front gate, fence, retaining wall, and pond, is now considered a single complex and is known as Peachtree Commons.

*New Hope AME Church

3012 Arden Rd., NW The New Hope African Methodist Episcopal Church is a modest white clapboard building with a tower topped by a simple steeple and four small decorative urns at one side of its entryway. Its main façade features a central front-gabled entrance portico that leads to the sanctuary. The New Hope congregation has owned this property since 1872 when James “Whispering” Smith, a wealthy white Buckhead landowner bequeathed threeacres of his property for use as a church and school for “colored persons”.

Peachtree Heights Historic District

The area enclosed by Peachtree Rd., Habersham, and Wesley Rd. This district has residential architecture of exceptional quality set within the landscape design of the architectural firm Carrero & Hastings. The landscaping was designed around the natural drainage patterns and native vegetation of the area.

Peachtree Highlands Historic District

The area bordered on three sides by E. Paces Ferry Rd., Piedmont Rd., and Highland Dr. This streetcar/automobile suburb, designed for the lower-middle class in the 1920s-1930s, provides numerous examples of vernacular housing of the time, which was influenced by the Craftsman, English Cottage, and Colonial Revival styles.

*Peachtree Southern

Railway Station (Brookwood Station)

1688 Peachtree St., NW This suburban passenger station was opened under the regulation of the U.S. Railroad Administration on March 17, 1918, primarily to accommodate passengers of the “Birmingham Special.”

*Sardis Methodist Church and Cemetery

3725 Powers Ferry Rd. One of Atlanta’s oldest continuous congregations dating back to 1812. Sardis Cemetery features fieldstones and elaborate marble headstones, the earliest marked grave is 1869.

*Spotswood Hall

575 Argonne Dr. Built in 1913, Spotswood Hall was one of the first houses built on the old farm land along Peachtree Road, West Paces Ferry Road, and Arden Road. (Old Howell Mill Road). Prominent owners were Shelby Smith, (Fulton County Commissioner, 1911-1912), and Lucian Lamar Knight, who owned Spotswood from 1918 – 1930, and gave it its name.

*Swan House

(at the Atlanta History Center)

3099 Andrews Dr., NW Built in 1928 for Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hamilton Inman, this house is an excellent example of luxurious living, personal taste, and interior decoration from this era, as well as of the residential design and landscaping of Philip Trammell Shutze.