{"nrhp_refnum":"87001362","name":"Garden Hills Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Delmont and Brentwood and N. Hills Drs., Piemont, E. Wesley, and Peachtree Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.833185901000036,"lon":-84.37879332182895,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-08-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A planned early 20th century residential suburb of about 450 acres in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, about five miles north of downtown near Buckhead, between Peachtree and Piedmont Roads. It was developed from 1925 by Philip C. McDuffie and his companies.","why_significant":"The district is significant in architecture, community planning and landscape architecture. It combines architect-designed houses in many revival styles with apartments, two schools, a church, a clubhouse and a small commercial strip. It was laid out as a self-contained suburb with curvilinear streets, a landscaped entrance boulevard and a central park.","narrative":"Garden Hills is a planned suburb of roughly 450 acres in north Atlanta, laid out between Peachtree and Piedmont Roads. Lawyer and real estate developer Philip C. McDuffie began it in 1925 and marketed it as the \"Garden Spot\" of Atlanta. Curving streets follow the natural terrain, and Rumson Road, a divided boulevard with a landscaped median, forms the main entrance. Sunnybrook Park remains a central green space. Development ran in three sections through 1941, producing large Tudor and Colonial Revival houses in the 1920s and smaller period houses in the 1930s. The community also included apartment buildings such as the Moorish-styled Alhambra, North Fulton High School, Garden Hills Elementary School, the Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, a clubhouse and a small commercial strip with a theater. Its architects included Hentz, Adler and Shutze and George H. Bond. It was recognized for architecture, community planning and landscape design.","period_of_significance":"1925-1941","architect_builder":"Hentz, Adler and Shutze; Tucker and Howell; George H. Bond; Ivey and Crook; Burge and Stevens; plat drawn by O.I. Freeman, City Engineer","architectural_style":"Early 20th-century eclectic revival styles: Tudor/English Revival, Colonial Revival, Georgian, Neoclassical, Spanish Revival, Moorish, Mission, French Eclectic, Modernistic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as a stable, well-maintained residential neighborhood with few intrusive buildings, mostly dating from the 1950s to 1980s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.899479-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/87001362.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001362/01891c9bc4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001362/01891c9bc4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garden_Hills,_Atlanta_GA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garden_Hills,_Atlanta_GA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208186","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49492784"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/garden-hills-historic-district-87001362/"}