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…
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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…
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…
William H. Schroder House
239 Rumson Road NE 1926: Smith & Downing In May 1926 the Constitution announced that “W. H. Schroder, of Atlanta, has purchased the beautiful Dutch colonial home at 239 Rumson road, Garden Hills . . . . The purchaser who has been living for a number of years in south Georgia where he was an…
T. Blair Dillard House — Carmelita
1080 West Paces Ferry Road NW 1917: P. Thornton Marye In May 1916, the Constitution announced that Thomas Blair Dillard, “formerly of Salem, Va.,” planned to build “a handsome Italian villa, costing between $35,000 and $50,000, on the 27-acre tract he purchased . . . for $18,600 in cash, on the south side of Pace’s…
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