The Neighborhood Hot List: West End & Westview

1. Westview Cemetery

The 582-acre cemetery from which the community takes its name is the largest civilian burial ground in the Southeast, with more than 100,000 graves since it opened in 1884. Among its most notable inhabitants are Coca-Cola magnates Asa Candler and Robert Woodruff, author Joel Chandler Harris, baseball great Jim Bagby, former Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield, journalist Ralph McGill and civil rights icons Donald Hollowell and Vivian Malone Jones.

2. Wren’s Nest

Children’s writer Joel Chandler Harris created many of his Uncle Remus and Br’er Rabbit stories at the Queen Anne-style house. The home has been preserved as a museum and cultural center.

3. Hammonds House Museum

The African-American art museum is located in the Victoriaera home of prominent physician and arts patron Otis Thrash Hammonds.

4. St. Anthony of Padua

The 100-year-old church was the third Catholic community to be established in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. The parish is home to over 600 families.

5. BeltLine

The Westside Trail of the Atlanta BeltLine is under construction and is expected to be completed in 2019, which will also include Enota Park.

By Tim Sullivan