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20th A.C., Paces Ferry Rd.Arden Rd. at W. Paces Ferry Rd.33rd N.J. State Flag1911 Walthall Dr.4th A.C. at BuckheadE. Paces Ferry at Grandview Dr.J. Arch Avary, Shining LightSunTrust Bank at Peachtree and Pharr Rds.Battle at Moore’s MillMoores Mill Rd. east of Peachtree CreekBattle of Peachtree Creek (Missing)Peachtree Battle Ave. and Peachtree Rd.Battle of Peachtree Creek MemorialPiedmont HospitalBattlefield of Peachtree CreekPalisades Rd. near Peachtree Rd.Blue Star Memorial HighwayEast side of Roswell Rd., north of Irby St.Brookhaven Historic DistrictClub entrance and W. BrookhavenBrookhaven Historic DistrictE. Club Ln. and Lakehaven Dr.Coburn’s BrigadeCollier Rd. at west end of Seaboard RR BridgeCollier’s MillCollier Rd. at Redland Rd.Donaldson Family General Store MarkerRoswell Rd. at Habersham Rd.Featherston’s BrigadeCollier Rd. at west end of Seaboard RR BridgeFederal CrossingsHowell Mill at Peachtree Creek BridgeFederal Right WingW. Paces Ferry Rd. at Mt. Paran Rd.Federal Right Wing to Peachtree CreekW. Paces Ferry Rd. at Paces Pl., just west of I-75For the Fallen (Atlanta Vietnam Veterans)130 W. Paces Ferry Rd. (Atlanta History Center)Fort Peach Tree at Fort Peachtree, Atlanta Water Works, off Ridgewood Rd.Fort Peachtree, War of 1812Ridgewood Rd. at Ridgewood Cir.Franklin Miller Garrett, Shining LightAtlanta Historical SocietyGap in Federal Line423 Collier Rd.Geary’s Division to Peachtree CreekPeachtree Battle Ave. at Arden Rd.Geary’s DivisionCollier Rd. at Walthall Dr.Geary’s Refused LineCollier Rd. and Northside Dr.Geary’s Three BridgesNorthside Dr. and Wesley Dr.

Gov. John M. Slaton (1866-1955)Atlanta History Center130 West Paces Ferry Rd.Green Bone CreekPeachtree Battle Ave. east of Bohler Rd.Hardee at Peachtree CreekBrighton Rd. at Peachtree Rd.Hardee’s AttackPalisades Rd. at Peachtree Rd.Harrison’s BrigadeCollier Rd. at Redland Rd.Howard’s Corps at Nancy’s CreekPowers Ferry Rd., just north of Nancy Creek BridgeHoward’s March to BuckheadPowers Ferry Rd. and Mt. Paran Rd.Howell’s MillsHowell Mill Rd. at Peachtree Creek BridgeKing’s BrigadePeachtree Hills Ave. at Tennis CenterMaj. William C. Preston, C.S.A.Howell Mill Rd. at Norfleet Dr.Montgomery’s FerryAt Fort Peachtree, Atlanta Water Works, off Ridgewood Rd.Moore’s MillMoore’s Mill Rd., east of Peachtree CreekNewton’s DivisionBrighton Rd. at Peachtree Rd.Old Cheshire Bridge RoadPiedmont Ave. at E. Paces Ferry Rd.O’Neal’s BrigadeNorthside Dr. at Collier Rd.O’Neal’s Brigade at the RavineNorthside Dr. at Overbrook Dr.Old Montgomery Ferry Rd.28th St. and Wycliff Rd.Old Mt. Zion ChurchHowell Mill Rd., just north of I-75Old Paces Ferry Rd.Lovett School traffic circleOn Geary’s FrontCollier Rd. at Walthall Dr. Paces Ferry United Methodist ChurchPaces Ferry Rd. at Mount Paran Rd.Palmer’s & Hooker’s A.C. Cross the ChattahoocheeW. Paces Ferry Rd. and River Forest Rd.Reynold’s BrigadeHowell Mill Rd. at Peachtree Creek BridgeReynold’s Brigade at the RavineSpringlake Dr. at Collier Rd.Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones, Jr., Shining LightBuckhead Park, Peachtree and Roswell Rds.Route of 20th A.C. Line2191 Howell Mill Rd. at Glenbrook Dr.Roy LeCraw Gas Lamp Memorial2970 Peachtree Rd.

Sardis Methodist ChurchPowers Ferry Rd., just northwest of Roswell Rd.Scott’s BrigadeCollier Rd. at Redland Rd.Alana Shepherd, Shining Light2020 Peachtree Rd., NW(Shepherd Center)Site of Old Cheshire BridgeBuford Hwy., just east of Lenox Rd. at Shady Valley Dr.Standing Peach Treeat Fort Peachtree, Atlanta Water Works, off Ridgewood Rd.The Hiram Embry PlantationChanning Dr., just east of Howell Mill Rd.The Mississippi BrigadeCollier Rd., just east of Seaboard Railroad Bridge“The Storyteller”269 Buckhead AvenueBuckhead Library Union Defense LineLovett School on road east of Traffic circleVietnam Veterans Memorial in honor of 1LT William Ellis Gay, Jr.2020 Peachtree Rd., NW (Shepherd Center)Vietnam Veterans Memorial in honor of CPT J. Patrick JaegerTwo Live Oak BuildingVietnam Veterans Memorial in honor of LCPL Russell M. Dobyns, Jr.Chastain ParkVietnam Veterans Memorial in honor of WO George T. Condrey, III Lenox TowersWard’s Division Crossed Peachtree CreekFairhaven Cir. at Peachtree Rd.Ward’s Division DeployedColonial Homes Dr. at Bobby Jones Golf CourseWard’s Division EncampedAndrews Dr. and Habersham WayWilliams’ Division DeployedNorthside Dr. at Tennis Center north of Overbrook Dr.Williams’ Kentucky Cavalry at Nancy’s CreekPowers Ferry Rd., just south of Nancy Creek BridgeWood’s and Newton’s Divisions at Peachtree CreekFairhaven Cir. at Peachtree Rd.Wood’s BrigadeCollier Rd., just east of Seaboard RR Bridge

Data: Atlanta Gas Light Co., Buckhead Coalition, Buckhead Heritage Society, William Hanley of the Georgia Historical Society, David G. Seibert

Historical Markers

TITLES & LOCATIONS

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*2 Collier Road Apartments2 Collier Rd., NEThis excellent example of the Colonial Revival-style 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. F5

*22-24 Collier Road Apartments22-24 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. F5

*Cecil and Hermione Alexander House2232 Mt. Paran Rd., NWCompleted in 1957, this modern circular plan house was designed by Atlanta architect Cecil Alexander as his family home. B3

Andrews-Dunn House2801 Andrews Dr., NWPrior to 1910, this house belonged to Wesley Collier and Sarah Hicks, daughter of Henry Irby, founder of Buckhead. D5

Bitsy Grant Tennis Center2125 Northside Dr., NWThe 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 Histor-ic 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. F4

Brookhaven Historic DistrictThe area surrounding Capital City Country Club and 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 cur-vilinear street plan, naturalistic landscaping, and architecture are representative of styles popular from the 1910s to the outbreak of World War II. B7

Brookwood Hills DistrictThe area enclosed by and closely surround-ing 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. F5

*Buckhead Forest NeighborhoodA 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 walk-

ing along sidewalks to the then closest streetcar stop. You can see how time pro-gressed in this neighborhood and appreciate the changes as you walk through time. D6

*Canton Apartments2840-2846 Peachtree Rd.Built in the 1920’s 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. D5

Garden Hills Historic DistrictThe 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 commer-cial strip, and apartment buildings, is divided into three sections (Peachtree-Beverly Hills, Country Club, and Brentwood). E5

*Gresham Building215 West Wieuca Rd., NWThe 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. C6

**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 restora-tion. Until restoration is complete, tour requests must be submitted to Tad Brown, president of the Watson-Brown Foundation. C3

Hermi’s BridgeParallel to Paces Ferry Bridge over Chattahoochee RiverOver 100 years old, this structure is named for civic leader Hermi Alexander, who lost her life in an auto accident nearby. C1

*Mrs. George Arthur Howell, Jr. House400 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. D4

*William and Ruth Knight Lustron House1976 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. F4

The Knox Apartments, Cauthorn House, and Peachtree Road Apartments Historic District2214-2230 Peachtree Rd., NEThis 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. F4

*New Hope AME Church3012 Arden Rd., NWThe 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 three-acres of his property for use as a church and school for “colored persons”. D3

Peachtree Heights Historic DistrictThe 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. E5

Peachtree Highlands Historic DistrictThe 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 Cot-tage, and Colonial Revival styles. D6

*Peachtree Southern Railway Station (Brookwood Station)1688 Peachtree St., NWThis 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.” G4

*Sardis Methodist Church and Cemetery3725 Powers Ferry Rd.One of Atlanta’s oldest continuous congrega-tions dating back to 1812. Sardis Cemetery features fieldstones and elaborate marble head-stones, the earliest marked grave is 1869. C5

*Spotswood Hall575 Argonne Dr.Built in 1913, this house was one of the first built on the old farm land along Peachtree Rd., W. Paces Ferry Rd., and Arden Rd. (Old Howell Mill Rd.). Prominent owners were Shelby Smith, Fulton County Commissioner (1911-1912), and Lucian Lamar Knight, who gave it its name (1918-1930). D4

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*Swan House (at the Atlanta History Center)3099 Andrews Dr., NWBuilt 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. D5

*Albert E. Thornton House105 W. Paces Ferry Rd.Albert E. Thornton, grandson of General Alfred Austell, one of Atlanta’s pioneers, built this stucco, Regency Revival-style house designed by the architect Philip Trammell Shutze. D5

*Henry B. Tompkins House 125 W. Wesley Rd., NWThis early 20th-century house and its land-scaped gardens illustrate the careful attention to detail, proportion, and siting of Atlanta architect Neel Reid. E4

*Trygveson3418 Pinestream Rd., NWThe interior of this Italian Baroque style villa (also known as the Pink Castle) showcases many Ba-roque ornaments, including an Allyn Cox (1896-1982) mural. “Trygveson” comes from the Welsh version of the last name of Mary Guy Trigg, wife of Andrew Calhoun, the original owner. C3

*Tullie Smith House (at the Atlanta History Center)3136 Slaton Dr., NWThis circa 1840 plantation-plain type house and its detached kitchen, moved to this site from DeKalb county in 1969, is typical of the farmhouses common in the Georgia Piedmont in the 19th century. D5

*Mary Elizabeth Tyler House2887 Howell Mill Rd.An impressive example of Classical Revival-style architecture, this residence was com-pleted in 1921 by Mary Elizabeth “Bessie” Tyler, a seminal figure in the shameful rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the early-20th century. F3

*Villa Lamar801 W. Paces Ferry Rd.This fine example of the Italian Renaissance style, built in 1911-1912, with its marble, mo-saic tile, tile roof, and Palladian style entrance loggia, is significant as the only known work in Georgia of the nationally-known architect George O. Totten, Jr.. C3

*George & Emily Winship Jr. House2626 Brookwood Dr., NEThis two-storey Tudor Revival-style residence features elaborately patterned brickwork, half-timbering, and multi-paned windows. Its front door, made entirely of mahogany, weighs 400-pounds. Built in 1925, its grounds were designed by one of Atlanta’s first landscape architects, William Pauley. E5

*Stuart Witham House2922 Andrews Dr., NWThis Neo-Georgian style house, built in 1926, is one of the latter designs of Neel Reid, the principal designer for the Atlanta firm of Hentz, Reid, & Adler. D5

Data: Easements Atlanta, Inc.

A façade easement consists of a historic building’s exterior donated to a nonprofit organization, such as Easements Atlanta, Inc. Putting an easement on a historic property is a way to ensure its preservation in perpetuity. A facade easement may provide tax benefits to the owner of the property. The deduction the taxpayer is entitled to is equal to the fair market value of the easement, and can be deducted from income tax. Donation of an easement can also lower inheritance taxes. In an easement agreement, an owner commits to preserving the property’s historic appearance. This includes maintaining the property, obtaining written permission from the organization that holds the easement for any exterior alterations, and refraining from demolition.Facade easements in Buckhead include:

• The Alhambra, 2855 Peachtree Road, NE. Constructed in 1927, the Alhambra Apartments were built in the Moorish style popular during the early twentieth century. The building is located in the heart of Buckhead along Peachtree Street. It was rehabilitated as apartments in 1985 and refurbished into luxury condominiums in 2005.

• Crestwood, 2840 Peachtree Road, NW. Currently a condominium complex, Crestwood was built in 1928 by Gardner Spencer As-sociates as “The Canton Apartments.” Constructed in the English Renaissance style, it is significant architecturally as an example of apartment dwellings in the 1920’s that did not adhere to the common style of the garden apartment facing a courtyard.

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3011 Arden Rd. New Hope 201 1889 Dr. James H. Smith deeded an acre of land in 1872 to his former slaves.

834 Canterbury Rd. Piney Grove 330 1889 Slave graves. Land was purchased in 1826 for Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church at this location.

1001 Edison Garden Guess Family Cemetery

24 1863 Measuring roughly 100 feet square, cemetery is located behind a private residence in the Pine Hills neighborhood where four of the twenty graves have markers, the rest are indicated by unmarked stones.

1879 Howell Mill Rd. Old Mt. Zion 2 1864 Formerly at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, now Northside Park Baptist Church.

4244 Lake Forrest Drive, NW

North Fulton Park

86 1922 This former potter’s field is believed to house the graves of white occupants of the Fulton County Alms House (now one of the Galloway School’s five main buildings.)

Loridans Dr. @ GA-400 Lowry-Stevens Family Cemetary

29 1852 A few hundred yards north of Wieuca Road, Land Lot 42 of the 17th District of Fulton County

3612 Paces Ferry Rd. Pleasant Hill 15 1896 Formerly Pleasant Hill Methodist Church, now Paces Ferry United Methodist Church.

433 Pharr Rd. Mt. Olive 75 1925 Mt. Olive Baptist Church was a black church in the area.3725 Powers Ferry Rd.

Sardis 1,000 1831 Originally called Oak Shade Cemetery. Abraham M. Clarady thought to be earliest burial – but there is no date.

214 W. Paces Ferry Rd. Harmony Grove 171 1837 Cemetery once adjacent to the Harmony Grove Baptist Church.

Façade Easements in Buckhead

Historic Cemeteries

(Also See: Houses of Worship listing on page 66 for location of columbariums in Buckhead)Data: Franklin Garrett, Buckhead Heritage Society, Atlanta History Center, Susan Barnard, Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr., and Chastain Park Conservancy.

Historic Sites & Districts

* listed on National Register of Historic Places** nominated to National Register of Historic Places