About This Home:
This is an exceptionally spacious 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath 2-story home for sale near Fernbank Elementary School in elegant Druid Hills. This home offers an extraordinary amount of square footage for the price in this prestigious intown neighborhood. On the main level, it features: a covered entry porch; entry foyer with staircase; large living room with fireplace; huge separate sunroom that opens out to a large deck; separate formal dining room; renovated kitchen; spacious office (or 4th/guest bedroom); guest powder room; and a master suite with oversized bedroom, walk-in and reach-in closets, a private full bath, laundry closet, and patio doors out to a wonderful screened porch that overlooks the fenced backyard and connects to the side deck off the sunroom. Upstairs, there are 2 charming bedrooms, each with walk-in closet; and a full hall bathroom. This home also has a drive-under 1-car garage (ideal workshop/storage space).
Druid Hills was developed at the turn of the 20th century and later served as the backdrop for the movie Driving Miss Daisy. Frederick Law Olmsted (the father of American landscape architecture and designer of New York's Central Park) laid out the neighborhood around a series of linear parks along Ponce de Leon Avenue. Druid Hills has attracted Atlanta's affluent families since its inception, and features some of the city's best residential architecture along its beautiful, park-like streets. In addition to the linear parks along Ponce de Leon, other recreational and cultural amenities in the area include: Emory University's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts and Michael C. Carlos Museum, the private Druid Hills Golf Club, Fernbank Forest and the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center; Candler Park (home to a public golf course, tennis courts, a pool, and new playground), the PATH (a multi-use urban trail that is very popular with walkers, runners, cyclists and bladers), and Freedom Park.
The Druid Hills neighborhood is adjacent to Emory University on the northeast side of the City of Atlanta. You'll find shops and restaurants at nearby Emory Village, Downtown Decatur, Candler Park, and Oakhurst Village. Within a 3 mile radius there are the shopping and restaurant districts of Midtown, Virginia-Highland, and Little Five Points/Inman Park. This area offers a particularly easy commute to Emory/CDC, the American Cancer Society headquarters, Emory Healthcare, and Egleston Children's Hospital.
The Druid Hills Civic Association is a strong community group that has vigorously defended the neighborhood against all threats to the existing quality of life. The group is active and committed, and maintains excellent communication among residents. Find out more at the DHCA web site.
Children living in this neighborhood attend DeKalb county public schools, including the highly-rated Fernbank Elementary (Pre-K through 5th grade); Shamrock Middle School (6-8 grades); and Druid Hills High School (a partner with Emory University in the Druid Hills Community Consortium). Nearby private schools include: The Frazer Center (infants - kindergarten); Waldorf School of Atlanta (pk-8); Friends School of Atlanta (pk-8); The Paideia School (pk-12); and The Ben Franklin Academy (private high school for ages 15-18), as well as a number of religious private schools.
This area is convenient to I-75/85, GA 400, I-20, and I-285. It is served by MARTA bus routes and is convenient to the Decatur and East Lake MARTA rail stations, which provide an easy commute Downtown or to the airport.
