{"nrhp_refnum":"73002137","name":"Callanwolde","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"980 Briarcliff Rd., NE","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"DeKalb County","state":"GA","lat":33.78167635650007,"lon":-84.34550355167158,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Callanwolde is a 24-room mansion at 980 Briarcliff Road N.E., Atlanta, DeKalb County, Georgia, built 1917-21 as the main house of the Charles Howard Candler estate. It was designed by Henry Hornbostel and sits on a wooded, landscaped tract of about 12 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a successful blend of 19th-century Gothic Revival and 20th-century ideas of form and function, designed by Henry Hornbostel, the Emory University campus planner. It was the home of Charles H. Candler, president of Coca-Cola and a chief benefactor of Emory University. It is also noted for its landscaped grounds and its later preservation as a public cultural and recreation center.","narrative":"Callanwolde is a 24-room mansion on a wooded, landscaped tract of about 12 acres on Briarcliff Road in Atlanta. It was built between 1917 and 1921 as the home of Charles Howard Candler, head of the Coca-Cola Company and a leading benefactor of Emory University. Architect Henry Hornbostel, who also planned the Emory campus, gave the house a stark, modern take on Tudor and Gothic Revival design, with half-timbering, crenellated bays, Tudor arches and a three-sided arcaded courtyard. The structure is poured concrete and steel under stucco. Inside, a great hall on each floor opens to most rooms, and a bronze-balustraded staircase rises beneath rib vaults. Other features include a basement bowling alley and a custom Aeolian organ system. Boxwood-lined formal gardens surround the patios. The Candler family lived here until 1959. After use by a church and as artists' studios, a citizens' foundation helped bring the estate into DeKalb County ownership as a public cultural and recreation center.","period_of_significance":"1917-1921","architect_builder":"Henry Hornbostel of New York and Pittsburg","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival (Tudor Gothic), described as a severe, modern approach","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good and altered. DeKalb County holds title, and restoration and development as a cultural-recreation center were being pursued.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.950108-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/73002137.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002137/ad3f98450f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002137/ad3f98450f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dawn DeLucia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Callanwolde_Mansion_Atlanta,_GA_2012.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Dawn DeLucia</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Callanwolde_Mansion_Atlanta,_GA_2012.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207746","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callanwolde_Fine_Arts_Center","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5021772"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/dekalb-county/callanwolde-73002137/"}