About This Home:
This is a wonderful 3 bedroom (plus office), 3.5 bath home with an over-sized, drive-under 2-car garage for sale in the Edmund Park subdivision in Atlanta's elegant Morningside neighborhood. Built in 2002, this home offers a large and gracious floorplan and many upgrades. On the ground level, it features: a drive-under, 2-car garage; a slate tiled entry foyer with storage closet; and a bedroom suite with private full bathroom. The second level is the main entertaining space and includes: an entry foyer with coat closet and guest powder room; a large living room with gas fireplace, built-in shelving, and door to the screened back porch; French doors to the formal dining room; a designer kitchen with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, breakfast bar; and a sunny breakfast room. Upstairs, there are 2 bedrooms (plus separate office), including the master suite, which has walk-in and reach-in closets and a luxurious private bath with dual vanities, jetted garden tub, and separate spa shower. There's also a full hall bathroom as well as a separate laundry closet with shelving. All the bathrooms have been recently renovated.
Edmund Park is only about one 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 Highland Avenue business district; Emory Village; Sage Hill Shopping Center; Ansley Mall; and the funky Little Five Points and Zonolite Road business districts.
There are several neighorhood parks nearby as well, including: 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).
This area is home primarily to active and involved professionals. 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. Edmund Park is just a few blocks from the Druid Hills neighborhood, which is the historic residential neighborhood depicted in the movie "Driving Miss Daisy." It also maintains a politically active neighborhood association. 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 DeKalb county public schools, including Briar Vista Elementary (Pre-K through 5th grade public Montessori school); Shamrock Middle School (6-8 grades); and Druid Hills High School (a partner with Emory University in the Druid Hills Community Consortium). Also nearby are Kittredge Elementary (a public magnet school for high achievers in grades 4-6), 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), as well as a number of religious private schools.
