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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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…
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…
Adolf Neubauer House
1 Barksdale Drive NE 1908: Architect Unknown A real estate advertisement in the April 16, 1911 Constitution listed “O. Neubauer” among the “names of 300 of Atlanta’s best citizens” with property in Ansley Park, urging the reader to “Add Your Name to the List While You Can.” (A contemporaneous plat map shows the Neubauer house…
Edward Lyle House
108 Seventeenth Street NE Circa 1915: P. Thornton Marye A 1911 plat map of the newly established Ansley Park neighborhood listed James Dibrell Sparks as the owner of a lot on Seventeenth Street. Sparks was a Fort Smith, Arkansas-native and son of a wealthy banker who married Irene Thrash in 1907. The couple did not…
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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