Roy Karshner House
3210 W Shadowlawn Ave NE Circa 1941: Unknown When the Berry Collins Company developed the Shadow Lawn subdivision in the 1920s, it called Shadow Lawn “an aristocrat among the high class north side subdivisions.” Shadow Lawn lies about five and one-half miles from the center of the city, just beyond Buckhead, and is traversed by…
Robert Steele (1846–1899)
Profiled in the Rev. E. R. Carter’s The Black Side. Born into slavery in Milledgeville, Georgia in 1846, Robert Steele was the son of J. and Carrie (_____) Steele. He used different first names during his life, including John and August, but he seems to have settled on James Robert Steele by 1885. He frequently…
James E. Gullatt (1831–1891)
Fourth Ward Councilman: 1863, 1864, 1867 Born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1831 to James E. and Mary (Carpenter) Gullatt, James was an orphan by his thirteenth birthday. The 1850 U.S. federal census found him and his younger brother, Henry, living in Charleston County in the household of Maria Carpenter, presumably his mother’s relative. 19-year-old…
Oran E. Burton House — The Chateau
963 Plymouth Road NE 1931: Ivey & Crook With the onslaught of the Great Depression, residential subdivision development in Atlanta “had slowed to a walk,” with the exception of the Land Lot Three Realty Company’s Lenox Park, “located north of Rock Springs Road between Morningside and Druid Hills.” Led by B. Mifflin Hood and Herbert…
Samuel R. McCamy (1814–1874)
Fifth Ward Councilman: 1869 A Tennessee native, Samuel R. McCamy first appears in Murray County, Georgia in the 1840 U.S. federal census with one 10-to-24-year-old male slave. He married Elizabeth A. Bishop in April 1844, and the 1850 U.S. federal census found Samuel, a 36-year-old merchant with $10,000 in real estate, living with his family…
Harrison Jones House — Whispering Pines
660 West Paces Ferry Road NW 1928: Pringle & Smith When the Pringle & Smith-designed Harrison Jones House—dubbed Whispering Pines—was profiled by House and Garden in 1929, it had been occupied for several years by the Jones family. Comparing Whispering Pines to George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the article noted: Across much of the architecture of…
Huss Melanchthon Beutell (1849–1919)
Fifth Ward Councilman: 1887, 1888; Fifth Ward Alderman: 1900, 1907, 1908, 1909 A son of John Michael and Ann Eliza (_____) Beutell, Huss was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey in 1849. 15-year-old Huss enlisted in the 10th Regiment of New York Infantry (popularly called the “National Zouaves”) in August 1864 and served until his…
J. Lee Barnes (1871–1949)
Sixth Ward Alderman: 1915, 1916, 1917 Born in Morgan County, Alabama in 1871, J. Lee Barnes was the son of John W. and Margaret (Morris) Barnes. His first name is unknown: The 1880 U.S. federal census called him “General L. Barnes,” but a later ship manifest called him “Jack Lee Barnes.” He used the first…
John W. Leach House
3824 Vermont Road NE Circa 1937: Unknown When the newly built home at 3824 Vermont Road was marketed in the Constitution in February 1937, it was advertised with its neighbor, 3814 Vermont Road: Two lovely new homes, perfectly placed on beautiful wooded lot, with clear spring branch across the rear. New England colonial architecture; most…
Malvern Hill (1864–1913)
Seventh Ward Councilman: 1901, 1902 The only son of Erastus P. and Frances (Gordon) Hill, Malvern was born in Newnan, Georgia in 1864. At a young age, he removed with his family to DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, where the 1870 U.S. federal census found him living with his father—a merchant—and mother near Pleasant Hill. He graduated…
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