About This Home:
This is a picture-perfect 3 bedroom, 1 bath 1930s brick Tudor bungalow with basement for sale in Atlanta's elegant Morningside neighborhood within walking distance of numerous shops and restaurants. You'll love the historic charm, modern updates, and wonderfully liveable floorplan of this delightful home. It features: a covered entry portico; a spacious living room with decorative fireplace and French door to a beautiful sunroom; a large formal dining room; and a sunny, eat-in kitchen with breakfast area and door to the back patio and fenced backyard. There are 3 spacious bedrooms and a lovely hall bathroom. This home has attic storage space in addition to a large, water-proofed basement with tons of storage plus a large laundry area. A driveway leads back to a gated carpad for off-street parking.
The Morningside neighborhood is about 1 mile from Emory University and is close to all the best intown shopping, dining, and cultural venues. There are a number of shopping districts within a short radius of the house, including the Virginia-Highland business district; Emory Village; Sage Hill Shopping Center; Ansley Mall; and the funky Little Five Points and Zonolite Road business districts. There are a number of grocery stores in the area, including 2 Whole Foods markets, as well as popular weekly farmers markets on North Highland Avenue, in nearby Piedmont Park, and in the City of Decatur.
There are multiple neighorhood parks in the area as well, including the Johnson Nature Preserve with 50 acres of woods and trails -- it's a beautiful woodland retreat tucked into the heart of this intown neighborhood. Other nearby parks include: Noble Park; Sunken Garden Park; Sussex Park; Lenox-Wildwood Park; the Olmsted Linear Parks along Ponce de Leon Avenue; Freedom Park and The Path; Fernbank Forest and the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Of course, nearby Piedmont Park is Atlanta's largest park and home to many of the city's biggest concerts and festivals. It has a large tennis center, a public swimming pool, softball and soccer fields, walking paths around Lake Clara Meer, and children's playgrounds. This home is also convenient to the private Druid Hills Golf Club, and the Ansley Golf Club as well as two public golf courses (Candler Park and Charlie Yates).
The Morningside/Lenox Park Association is a strong and effective neighborhood association that works to maintain the quality of life in this historic, residential neighborhood. In addition to Emory University, this area is very convenient to Downtown Atlanta, Midtown, Buckhead, and Downtown Decatur. Both Emory and Georgia Tech are just a few minutes drive, and the area is well served by MARTA, both bus and rail, and you have easy access to I-75/85 and GA 400.
Children living in this neighborhood attend City of Atlanta public schools, including Morningside Elementary, Inman Middle School, and Grady High School. Nearby private schools include: The Frazer Center (private infants - kindergarten); Waldorf School of Atlanta (private pk-8); The Paideia School (private pk-12); and The Ben Franklin Academy (private high school for ages 15-18).
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