{"nrhp_refnum":"79000717","name":"Ansley Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Ansley Park and environs","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.80136639650007,"lon":-84.3783712859535,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Ansley Park is an early-twentieth-century suburban residential district of about 275 acres in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, between Piedmont Avenue and Peachtree Street. It was developed in four phases between 1904 and 1913 and includes about 600 houses, several apartment buildings and a church.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the district is historically and architecturally significant as Atlanta's first planned automobile suburb, with a picturesque landscape plan by S.Z. Ruff and the Southern Real Estate Improvement Company. It also holds an excellent collection of homes and apartments in the popular eclectic and contemporary styles of the period. Its residents were prominent Atlanta citizens who shaped the city's future.","narrative":"Ansley Park is a 275-acre suburb in Atlanta, laid out between 1904 and 1913 and largely complete by 1930. Roughly 600 houses, several apartment buildings and one church sit along curving streets that follow the rolling terrain, with irregular parks and greenswards on hilltops and steep slopes. Civil engineer S.Z. Ruff drew the landscape plan for the Southern Real Estate Improvement Company. The district is described as Atlanta's first planned neighborhood built after the automobile was accepted, and it depended on that mode of travel. Its buildings range from bungalows and cottages to three-story mansions, in Colonial, Tudor, Queen Anne, Prairie and Craftsman styles. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, designed by Dougherty and Robinson and built 1913-1914, marks the main entrance from Peachtree Street. Early deed covenants barred Black residents except domestic workers and excluded commercial uses. Few intrusions exist, mostly buildings under fifty years old.","period_of_significance":"1904-1930","architect_builder":"Various; landscape plan by S.Z. Ruff, civil engineer; First Church of Christ, Scientist by Edward Emmett Dougherty and Arthur Neal Robinson","architectural_style":"Eclectic and period revival styles (Colonial, Federal, Neo-Classical, Italian Renaissance, Baroque, Queen Anne, Tudor), Late Victorian cottages, Prairie School and Craftsman bungalows","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent and good; occupied, mainly private residences. The plan and landscaping are described as virtually unchanged since about 1930, with few intrusions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.473857-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/79000717.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"15000466","name":"Ansley Park Historic District (Boundary Increase, Decrease and Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/ansley-park-historic-district-boundary-increase-decrease-and-additional-document-15000466/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208056","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34814539"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/ansley-park-historic-district-79000717/"}