historic sites & districts *Albert E. Thornton House
105 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.
*Henry B. Tompkins House
125 W. Wesley Rd., NW This early 20th-century house and its landscaped gardens illustrate the careful attention to detail, proportion, and siting of Atlanta architect Neel Reid.
*Trygveson
3418 Pinestream Rd., NW The interior of this Italian Baroque style villa (also known as the Pink Castle) showcases many Baroque 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.
*Tullie Smith House
*George & Emily Winship Jr. House
(at the Atlanta History Center)
3136 Slaton Dr., NW This 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.
*Mary Elizabeth Tyler House
2887 Howell Mill Rd. An impressive example of Classical Revival-style architecture, this residence was completed in 1921 by Mary Elizabeth “Bessie” Tyler, a seminal figure in the shameful rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the early-20th century.
*Villa Lamar
801 W. Paces Ferry Rd. This fine example of the Italian Renaissance style, built in 1911-1912, with its marble, mosaic 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..
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2626 Brookwood Dr., NE This 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.
*Stuart Witham House
2922 Andrews Dr., NW This 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.
* listed on National Register of Historic Places ** nominated to National Register of Historic Places
Civil War heritage trail, Buckhead driving route From Peachtree Dunwoody Road, at Sandy Springs / Atlanta City limits, south to Peachtree Road, southwest to West Paces Ferry Road, west to Moores Mill Road, southwest to Howell Mill Road, south to Peachtree Battle Road, east to Peachtree Road, north to Lindbergh Drive, east to Lavista Road, east to Fulton/DeKalb county limits. Interpretive Civil War markers include (#25) Battle of Peach Tree Creek along Peachtree Battle (between Howell Mill and Northside), and (#26) Peach Tree Creek Crossing along Peachtree (between Peachtree Battle and Lindbergh). civilwarheritagetrails.org/ga-civil-war-trails-map/ga-atlanta-campaign.html
historic cemeteries Approximate Number of Known Burials 201
Earliest Known Burial Date 1889
Piney Grove
330
1889
1001 Edison Garden
Guess Family Cemetery
24
1863
1879 Howell Mill Rd.
Old Mt. Zion
2
1864
4244 Lake Forrest Drive, NW
North Fulton Park
86
1922
Loridans Dr. @ GA-400
Lowry-Stevens Cemetery Pleasant Hill
60
1849
15
1896
75 1,000
1925 1831
171
1837
Address (alphabetical order)
Cemetery
3011 Arden Rd.
New Hope
834 Canterbury Rd.
3612 Paces Ferry Rd. 433 Pharr Rd. 3725 Powers Ferry Rd.
Mt. Olive Sardis
214 W. Paces Ferry Rd.
Harmony Grove
Notes Dr. James H. Smith deeded an acre of land in 1872 to his former slaves. Slave graves. Land was purchased in 1826 for Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church at this location. 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. Formerly at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, now Northside Park Baptist Church. 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.) A few hundred yards north of Wieuca Road, Land Lot 42 of the 17th District of Fulton County Formerly Pleasant Hill Methodist Church, now Paces Ferry United Methodist Church. Mt. Olive Baptist Church was a black church in the area. Originally called Oak Shade Cemetery. Abraham M. Clarady thought to be earliest burial – but there is no date. Cemetery once adjacent to the Harmony Grove Baptist Church.
Data: Franklin Garrett, Buckhead Heritage Society, Atlanta History Center, Susan Barnard, Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr., and Chastain Park Conservancy.
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