{"nrhp_refnum":"76000629","name":"Piedmont Park","other_names":["Grounds of Cotton States and International Exposition"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by 10th St., Southern Rwy. and Piedmont Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.788279119000066,"lon":-84.37423751329493,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-05-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Piedmont Park is a 185-acre landscaped public park in northeast Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, on the grounds of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition. The City of Atlanta bought the land in 1904, and Olmsted Brothers prepared a plan of improvement in 1910.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the park shows park-planning ideas of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., carried out by his sons' firm, Olmsted Brothers. The senior Olmsted was consulted on the 1895 Exposition grounds, and the 1910 plan reflected his design ideas. The park's green space is also of growing value to the surrounding urbanized area.","narrative":"Piedmont Park covers 185 acres in northeast Atlanta, bounded by Tenth Street, Piedmont Road and the Southern Railway line. The land first served as the driving grounds of a gentlemen's club, then as the site of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition, which ran for 100 days. Atlanta bought the grounds in 1904 for a city park. Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. advised on the Exposition plan in 1894, though a local engineer, Grant Wilkins, drew the plan actually used. In 1910 Olmsted Brothers produced a plan of improvement that reshaped the lake, added formal gardens, recreation areas, a golf course and a five-mile driveway, and reused the Exposition's stone stairways and circular urns. Features today include a lake, a meadow, a bandstand and a Peace Monument placed in 1911. The park was listed because it reflects Olmsted's belief that carefully planned parks benefit the health and welfare of city residents.","period_of_significance":"1895-1910","architect_builder":"Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.; Olmsted Brothers (1910 plan); Grant Wilkins, engineer (Exposition grounds plan); Philip T. Shutze of Hentz, Adler and Shutze (Piedmont Driving Club interiors)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and unaltered, on its original site, and occupied; used as a public park with unrestricted access.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.641841-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/76000629.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000629/11690736b9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000629/11690736b9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Frank Schulenburg","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piedmont_Park%E2%80%99s_Lake_Clara_Meer_with_Midtown_Atlanta_skyline_(2024)-104A8428.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Schulenburg</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piedmont_Park%E2%80%99s_Lake_Clara_Meer_with_Midtown_Atlanta_skyline_(2024)-104A8428.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208300","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3363884"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/piedmont-park-76000629/"}