Druid Hills Historic District, US 29, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
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Significance: Druid Hills is historically significant primarily in the areas of landscape architecture, architecture, and community planning. Druid Hills is the finest example of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century comprehensive suburban planning and development in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and one of the finest turn-of-the-century suburbs in the southeastern United States. Druid Hills is more specifically noted because: (1) it is a major work by the eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his successors, and Olmsted Brothers, and the only such work in Atlanta; (2) it is a good examples of Frederick Law Olsted's principles and practices regarding suburban development...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1052
Survey number: HABS GA-2390
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