About This Home:
This is a grand 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath historic home with a detached 2-car garage (with carriage house apartment) for sale in Atlanta's elegant Druid Hills neighborhood. Built circa 1920, this 2-story Tudor estate home sits on a one acre lot overlooking the Druid Hills Golf Club. The house is elevated and secluded from the street. On the main level, it features: a wrap-around front terrace and arched, stone entry portico; a dramatic entry foyer with sweeping staircase; a wonderful home office/den with built-in shelving and oversized bay window; a bright and spacious living room with gas log fireplace and door to the screened side porch and side yard; a separate formal dining room with crystal chandelier and French door to the side porch; a designer kitchen with granite countertops, custom cabinets, and tumbled stone backsplash; a sunny breakfast room open to the kitchen; a large laundry room; and a guest powder room. Upstairs, there are 4 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms, including the master suite with a spacious master bedroom, walk-in and reach-in closet in a separate dressing area, and a private master bathroom with his & hers marble-topped vanities, a clawfoot tub, and separate shower. There is abundant basement storage space as well. A long driveway leads to a porte cochere providing covered access to the house. There's also a paved turn-around and an open parking area for multiple cars. This home also has a separate carriage house with 2-car garage and a full 2nd story apartment with living/dining room, kitchen, spacious bedroom, and full bathroom (currently rented). This is an exceptional Druid Hills home -- last offered for public sale in 1935. Family legend holds that it was originally built as an inducement to try to lure Bobby Jones to Druid Hills Golf Club. The family room has a pegged wood floor and the rumor is that the pegs are cut shafts from wooden golf clubs.
Druid Hills was developed at the turn of the 20th century and later served as the backdrop for the movie Driving Miss Daisy. 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. 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; the Freedom Park trail of 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 the campus of Emory University on the northeast side of the City of Atlanta. This home is convenient to the shops and restaurants of Emory Village, and close to the very popular Virginia-Highland business district. You'll find more shops and restaurants in nearby Downtown Decatur, Candler Park, Midtown, and Little Five Points. This area is also convenient to the huge Edgewood Retail District, which features over 500,000 sq. ft. of retail space including major national chains such as Lowes; Office Depot; Target; Bed, Bath & Beyond; and Kroger as well as many other stores. 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.
This location offers a particularly easy commute to Emory/CDC, the American Cancer Society headquarters, Emory Healthcare, and Egleston Children's Hospital. The 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 East Lake MARTA rail station, which provides an easy commute Downtown or to the airport.
