{"nrhp_refnum":"95000909","name":"Mozley Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Westview Dr., West Lake Ave., Seaboard Coast Line RR tracks and M. L. King and Rockmart Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.74898565700005,"lon":-84.43650736092195,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-08-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in west Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, about three miles from downtown. Streets were platted from 1907 on land of the Mozley estate, and the houses date from about 1910 to the 1940s. It includes Mozley Park and F. L. Stanton Elementary School.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its planned neighborhood of Craftsman bungalows and other early 20th-century house types, and for the subdivision of an estate into a neighborhood. It is also significant as the first Atlanta neighborhood to shift from all-white to majority African-American, between 1949 and 1954, which broke the city's housing color line during the civil rights era.","narrative":"Mozley Park is a west Atlanta neighborhood of 477 contributing buildings, laid out from 1907 on land that belonged to Dr. Hiram Mozley and his heirs. Houses went up from about 1910 into the 1940s, most of them modest Craftsman bungalows mixed with Queen Anne and Folk Victorian cottages on gridiron streets, some still with granite curbs and hexagonal paver sidewalks. Residents persuaded the city to buy the Mozley estate for a park in the 1920s, and F. L. Stanton Elementary School opened in 1927. The district was listed for its architecture and its planning history, and above all for its role in Atlanta's civil rights story. In 1949 the Reverend W. W. Witherspool, a Black minister, bought a house in the all-white neighborhood, provoking a near riot. By 1954 the area was predominantly African-American, the first Atlanta neighborhood to change this way, setting a pattern repeated elsewhere in the city.","period_of_significance":"1907-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th century American Movements/bungalow/craftsman; Italian Renaissance revival; Late Victorian/Queen Anne; Folk Victorian; gabled-ell cottage; Georgian cottage","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still residential, with a school and park in use; some houses have altered siding, awnings and rear additions, and Interstate 20 removed some older houses and street ends.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.084635-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/95000909.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208264","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozley_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6928007"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/mozley-park-historic-district-95000909/"}