historic markers TITLES & LOCATIONS 20th A.C., Paces Ferry Rd. Gov. John M. Slaton (1866-1955) Scott’s Brigade Arden Rd. at W. Paces Ferry Rd. History Center Collier Rd. at Redland Rd. 33rd N.J. State Flag 130 West Paces Ferry Rd. Alana Shepherd, Shining Light 1911 Walthall Dr. Green Bone Creek 2020 Peachtree Rd., NW (Shepherd Center) 4th A.C. at Peachtree Battle Ave. east of Bohler Rd. Site of Old Cheshire Bridge E. Paces Ferry at Grandview Dr. Hardee at Peachtree Creek Buford Hwy., just east of Lenox Rd. J. Arch Avary, Shining Light Brighton Rd. at Peachtree Rd. at Shady Valley Dr. SunTrust Bank at Peachtree and Pharr Rds. Hardee’s Attack Standing Peach Tree Battle at Moore’s Mill Palisades Rd. at Peachtree Rd. at Fort Peachtree, Atlanta Water Works, off Ridgewood Rd. Moores Mill Rd. east of Peachtree Creek Harrison’s Brigade The Hiram Embry Plantation Battle of Peachtree Creek (missing) Collier Rd. at Redland Rd. Channing Dr., just east of Howell Mill Rd. Peachtree Battle Ave. and Peachtree Rd. Howard’s Corps at Nancy’s Creek The Mississippi Brigade Battle of Peachtree Creek Monument Powers Ferry Rd., just north of Nancy Creek Bridge Collier Rd., just east of Seaboard Railroad Bridge Peachtree Rd. at Piedmont Hospital (*in storage until construction complete, est. 2020) Howard’s March to Buckhead “Solomon Luckie” Streetlamp Battlefield of eachtree Creek Powers Ferry Rd. and Mt. Paran Rd. Atlanta History Center 130 West Paces Ferry Road Palisades Rd. near Peachtree Rd. Howell’s Mills “The Storyteller” Blue Star Memorial Highway Howell Mill Rd. at Peachtree Creek Bridge 269 Buckhead Avenue Buckhead Library East side of Roswell Rd., north of Irby St. King’s Brigade Union Defense Line Brookhaven Historic District Ave. at Tennis Center Maj. William C. Preston, C.S.A. Lovett School on road east of Traffic circle

Club entrance and W. Brookhaven TOURISM Vietnam Veterans Memorial in honor of Brookhaven Historic District Howell Mill Rd. at Norfleet Dr. 1LT William Ellis Gay, Jr. E. Club Ln. and Lakehaven Dr. Montgomery’s Ferry 2020 Peachtree Rd., NW (Shepherd Center) Coburn’s Brigade At Fort Peachtree, Atlanta Water Works, off Ridgewood Rd. Vietnam Veterans Memorial in honor of Collier Rd. at west end of Seaboard RR Bridge Moore’s Mill CPT J. Patrick Jaeger Collier’s Mill Moore’s Mill Rd., east of Peachtree Creek Two Live Oak Building Collier Rd. at Redland Rd. Newton’s Division Vietnam Veterans Memorial in honor of Donaldson Family General Store Marker LCPL Russell M. Dobyns, Jr. Brighton Rd. at Peachtree Rd. Roswell Rd. at Habersham Rd. Old Cheshire Bridge Road Featherston’s Brigade Vietnam Veterans Memorial in honor of WO Piedmont Ave. at E. Paces Ferry Rd. Collier Rd. at west end of Seaboard RR Bridge George T. Condrey, III O’Neal’s Brigade Federal Crossings Lenox Towers Northside Dr. at Bitsy Grant Tennis Howell Mill at Peachtree Creek Bridge Ward’s Division Crossed O’Neal’s Brigade at the Ravine Federal Right Wing Peachtree Creek Northside Dr. at Overbrook Dr. Fairhaven Cir. at Peachtree Rd. W. Paces Ferry Rd. at Mt. Paran Rd. Old Montgomery Ferry Rd. Ward’s Division Deployed Federal Right Wing to Peachtree Creek 28th St. and Wycliff Rd. Colonial Homes Dr. W. Paces Ferry Rd. at Paces Pl., just at Bobby Jones west of I-75 Old Mt. Zion Church Golf Course For the Fallen (Atlanta Vietnam Veterans) Howell Mill Rd., just north of I-75 Ward’s Division Encamped 130 W. Paces Ferry Rd. (Atlanta History Center) Old Paces Ferry Rd. Lovett School traffic circle Andrews Dr. and Fort Peach Tree Habersham Way On Geary’s Front at Fort Peachtree, Atlanta Water Works, off Williams’ Division Deployed Ridgewood Rd. Collier Rd. at Walthall Dr. Northside Dr. at Tennis Center Fort Peachtree, War of 1812 Paces Ferry United Methodist Church north of Overbrook Dr. Paces Ferry Rd. at Mount Paran Rd. Ridgewood Rd. at Ridgewood Cir. Williams’ Kentucky Cavalry at Franklin Miller Garrett, Shining Light Palmer’s & Hooker’s A.C. Cross the Chattahoochee Nancy’s Creek Atlanta Historical Society W. Paces Ferry Rd. and River Forest Rd. Powers Ferry Rd., just south of Nancy Gap in Federal Line Reynold’s Brigade Creek Bridge 423 Collier Rd. Howell Mill Rd. at Peachtree Creek Bridge Wood’s and Newton’s Divisions Geary’s Division to Peachtree Creek Reynold’s Brigade at the Ravine at Peachtree Creek Peachtree Battle Ave. at Arden Rd. Springlake Dr. at Collier Rd. Fairhaven Cir. at Peachtree Rd. Geary’s Division Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones, Jr., Shining Light Wood’s Brigade Collier Rd. at Walthall Dr. Buckhead Park, Peachtree and Roswell Rds. Collier Rd., just east of Seaboard RR Bridge Geary’s Refused Line Route of 20th A.C. Line Collier Rd. and Northside Dr. 2191 Howell Mill Rd. at Glenbrook Dr. Geary’s Three Bridges Roy LeCraw Gas Lamp Memorial Data: Atlanta Gas Light Co., Buckhead Coalition, Northside Dr. and Wesley Dr. 2970 Peachtree Rd. Buckhead Heritage Society, William Hanley of the Sardis Methodist Church Historical Society, David G. Seibert Powers Ferry Rd., just northwest of Roswell Rd.

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*2 Collier Road Apartments *Canton Apartments *New Hope AME Church 2 Collier Rd., NE 2840-2846 Peachtree Rd. 3012 Arden Rd., NW This excellent example of the Colonial Built in the 1920s in the English Renaissance The New Hope African Methodist Episcopal Revival-style was built in 1929 by Henry Rice, style, as opposed to the more common Garden Church is a modest white clapboard building the first of several apartments built along Apartment/Courtyard style, it and other nearby with a tower topped by a simple steeple and Collier Road. At the time of its construction, apartments served as a buffer between nearby four small decorative urns at one side of its apartment house living was beginning to rise in mansions and the increasing commercialization entryway. Its main façade features a central popularity and gain acceptance. F5 of Peachtree Rd. D5 front-gabled entrance portico that leads to the sanctuary. The New Hope congregation *22-24 Collier Road Apartments Historic District has owned this property since 1872 when 22-24 Collier Rd. The area bordered on three sides by Delmont James “Whispering” Smith, a wealthy white Built in 1929 by J.W. Jenkins and J.G. Dr., Brentwood Dr., and Peachtree Rd. This Buckhead landowner bequeathed three-acres Crockett, these apartments are brick with early 20th century suburban development, of his property for use as a church and school Mediterranean-Revival-style details and a good with its curvilinear streets set into the natural for “colored persons”. D3 representation of small apartments in 1920s topography, architect-designed homes, Buckhead. F5 schools, clubhouse, church, small commer- Peachtree Heights Historic District *Cecil and Hermione Alexander House cial strip, and apartment buildings, is divided The area enclosed by Peachtree Rd., 2232 Mt. Paran Rd., NW into three sections (Peachtree-Beverly Hills, Habersham, and Wesley Rd. Country Club, and Brentwood). E5 Completed in 1957, this modern circular plan This district has residential architecture of house was designed by Atlanta architect Cecil *Gresham Building exceptional quality set within the landscape design of the architectural firm Carrero & Alexander as his family home. B3 215 West Wieuca Rd., NW Hastings. The landscaping was designed The former Fulton County Almshouse built Andrews-Dunn House around the natural drainage patterns and in 1911, and after 1932, Haven Home, in 2801 Andrews Dr., NW native vegetation of the area. E5 Buckhead’s Chastain Park, is listed for its Prior to 1910, this house belonged to Wesley contributions to the social welfare of Fulton Collier and Sarah Hicks, daughter of Henry Peachtree Highlands Historic District County, and as a rich Atlanta example of Irby, founder of Buckhead. D5 The area bordered on three sides by E. Paces Neoclassical Revival-style architecture. It is Ferry Rd., Piedmont Rd., and Highland Dr. Bitsy Grant Tennis Center one of five main buildings that form today’s This streetcar/automobile suburb, designed 2125 Northside Dr., NW Galloway School. C6 for the lower-middle class in the 1920s- The Bitsy Grant Tennis Center is an historic **May Patterson Goodrum House 1930s, provides numerous examples of tennis facility with 23 lighted hard and clay vernacular housing of the time, which was courts, plus three new platform courts. It (also known as the Peacock House) influenced by the Craftsman, English Cot- is named after Bryan Morel “Bitsy” Grant 320 West Paces Ferry Rd. tage, and Colonial Revival styles. D6 Formerly the Southern Center for International

TOURISM (1910-1986), a long-time Atlanta tennis legend known for his remarkable lob and Studies, this English Regency-style residence *Peachtree Southern Railway Station drop-shot. The Center is an Atlanta Historic was designed by Philip Trammell Shutze and (Brookwood Station) Landmark and in 2012 was awarded The completed in 1932, and said to be his favorite 1688 Peachtree St., NW Georgia Trust’s Excellence in Restoration residential commission in Atlanta. Purchased in This suburban passenger station was award. It is also the home of the Atlanta 2008 by the Watson-Brown Foundation, which opened under the regulation of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. F4 is currently undertaking its thorough restora- Railroad Administration on March 17, 1918, tion. Until restoration is complete, tour requests Brookhaven Historic District primarily to accommodate passengers of must be submitted to Tad Brown, president of the “Birmingham Special.” G4 The area surrounding Capital City Country the Watson-Brown Foundation. C3 Club and roughly enclosed by Peachtree *Sardis Methodist Church Hermi’s Bridge Rd. and Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd. This and Cemetery early 20th century suburb, planned as a Parallel to Paces Ferry Bridge over the 3725 Powers Ferry Rd. golf course/country club community, is the Chattahoochee River and over 100 years One of Atlanta’s oldest continuous congrega- oldest such community in Georgia. The cur- old, this structure is named for civic leader tions dating back to 1812. Sardis Cemetery vilinear street plan, naturalistic landscaping, Hermi Alexander, who lost her life in an features fieldstones and elaborate marble head- and architecture are representative of styles C1 auto accident nearby. stones, the earliest marked grave is 1869. C5 popular from the 1910s to the outbreak of World War II. B7 *Mrs. George Arthur Howell, Jr. House 400 W. Paces Ferry Rd. *Spotswood Hall District This Neo-Classical Revival house, designed 575 Argonne Dr. The area enclosed by and closely surround- by the Atlanta architectural firm of Cooper & Built in 1913, this house was one of ing Peachtree St., Huntington Rd., and Cooper, was built in 1932 on what was then the first built on the old farm land along Brighton Rd. Enfamin and Arthur Burdett the outskirts of Atlanta. D4 Peachtree Rd., W. Paces Ferry Rd., and developed this limited-access, enclave-type Arden Rd. (Old Howell Mill Rd.). Prominent subdivision with curvilinear streets and park- *William and Ruth Knight Lustron House owners were Shelby Smith, Fulton County like landscaping in the style of Frederick Law 1976 Northside Dr. Commissioner (1911-1912), and Lucian Olmstead in the 1920s for the upper middle Erected in May 1949 as the original Lustron Lamar Knight, who gave it its name. class. F5 dealer demonstration home for the Atlanta area (1918-1930). D4 franchise, this house is an excellent and intact *Buckhead Forest Neighborhood example of post World War II prefabricated *Swan House A triangle bounded by Peachtree, Piedmont, housing, popular at the time due to the housing (at the Atlanta History Center) and Roswell roads, it houses middle-price shortage after the war. F4 3099 Andrews Dr., NW residences built in the 1960s, back to 1910. Built in 1928 for Mr. and Mrs. Edward On Shadowlawn Avenue, developed around The Knox Apartments, Cauthorn Hamilton Inman, this house is an excellent 1910, houses are closer together and closer House, and Peachtree Road example of luxurious living, personal taste, and to the street and sidewalk to facilitate walk- Apartments Historic District interior decoration from this era, as well as of ing along sidewalks to the then closest 2214-2230 Peachtree Rd., NE the residential design and landscaping of Philip streetcar stop. You can see how time pro- This district, with its three historic apartment Trammell Shutze. D5 gressed in this neighborhood and appreciate buildings, one historic home, mature trees, the changes as you walk through time. D6 front gate, fence, retaining wall, and pond, is now considered a single complex and is known as Peachtree Commons. F4 44 2020 BUCKHEAD GUIDEBOOK

2_Tourism_20.indd 44 1/17/20 1:23 PM historic sites & districts *Albert E. Thornton House *Tullie Smith House *George & Emily 105 W. Paces Ferry Rd. (at the Atlanta History Center) Winship Jr. House Albert E. Thornton, grandson of General Alfred 3136 Slaton Dr., NW 2626 Brookwood Dr., NE Austell, one of Atlanta’s pioneers, built this This circa 1840 plantation-plain type house and its This two-storey Tudor Revival-style stucco, Regency Revival-style house designed detached kitchen, moved to this site from DeKalb residence features elaborately patterned by the architect Philip county in 1969, is typical of the farmhouses common brickwork, half-timbering, and multi-paned Trammell Shutze. D5 in the Georgia Piedmont in the 19th century. D5 windows. Its front door, made entirely of *Mary Elizabeth Tyler House mahogany, weighs 400-pounds. Built in 1925, *Henry B. Tompkins House its grounds were designed by one of Atlanta’s 125 W. Wesley Rd., NW 2887 Howell Mill Rd. An impressive example of Classical Revival- first landscape architects, William Pauley. E5 This early 20th-century house and its land- style architecture, this residence was com- scaped gardens illustrate the careful attention *Stuart Witham House pleted in 1921 by Mary Elizabeth “Bessie” Tyler, to detail, proportion, and siting of Atlanta 2922 Andrews Dr., NW E4 a seminal figure in the shameful rise of the Ku architect Neel Reid. F3 This Neo-Georgian style house, built in 1926, Klux Klan in the early-20th century. is one of the latter designs of Neel Reid, *Trygveson *Villa Lamar the principal designer for the Atlanta firm of 3418 Pinestream Rd., NW 801 W. Paces Ferry Rd. Hentz, Reid, & Adler. D5 The interior of this Italian Baroque style villa (also This fine example of the Italian Renaissance known as the Pink Castle) showcases many Ba- style, built in 1911-1912, with its marble, mo- * listed on National Register of Historic Places roque ornaments, including an Allyn Cox (1896- saic tile, tile roof, and Palladian style entrance ** nominated to National Register of Historic Places 1982) mural. “Trygveson” comes from the Welsh loggia, is significant as the only known work version of the last name of Mary Guy Trigg, wife in Georgia of the nationally-known architect of Andrew Calhoun, the original owner. C3 George O. Totten, Jr.. C3 facade easements in buckhead 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 TOURISM 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 Road. 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 1920s that did not adhere to the common style of the garden apartment facing a courtyard. • Spotswood Hall, 575 Argonne Drive. Built in 1913 by Shelby Smith, Sr., Spotswood was one of the first residences built on what was previously farmland along Peachtree Road, West Paces Ferry Road, and Arden Road. Lucian Lamar Knight (1918-1930) a noted historian and one of its prominent owners named the residence Spotswood Hall in honor of one of his ancestral homes. The façade is protected in perpetuity by a preservation easement. Data: Buckhead Heritage Society, Easements Atlanta, Inc. historic cemeteries Address Approximate Earliest Cemetery Number of Known Notes (alphabetical order) Known Burials Burial Date 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 24 1863 Measuring roughly 100 feet square, cemetery is located behind a private Cemetery 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 North 86 1922 This former potter’s field is believed to house the graves of white Drive, NW Fulton Park occupants of the Fulton County Alms House (now one of the Galloway School’s five main buildings.) Loridans Dr. @ GA-400 Lowry-Stevens 60 1849 A few hundred yards north of Wieuca Road, Land Lot 42 of the Cemetery 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 Sardis 1,000 1831 Originally called Oak Shade Cemetery. Abraham M. Clarady Ferry Rd. 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. (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. 2020 BUCKHEAD GUIDEBOOK 45

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