{"nrhp_refnum":"96000649","name":"Crescent Apartments","other_names":["\"The Dump\"","Windsor House Apts.","The Margaret Mitchell House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"979 Crescent Ave., NW","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.78114841200005,"lon":-84.38444288999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-06-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story, brick-veneered Tudor Revival building at 979 Crescent Avenue N.W. in Midtown Atlanta, built in 1898-99 as a single-family house and converted to ten apartments in 1919-20.","why_significant":"The building is significant because Margaret Mitchell lived in its ground-floor Apartment 1 from 1925 to 1932 and wrote most of Gone With The Wind there. That apartment survives relatively intact, with its floor plan virtually unchanged. The building also illustrates a converted single-family house used as apartments, distinct from the garden or courtyard apartments common in Atlanta.","narrative":"Built in 1898-99 as a two-story Tudor Revival house for businessman Cornelius J. Sheehan, Jr., this brick-veneered building on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta changed form several times. In 1913-14 it was moved to the rear of its lot, set on a raised basement and given a Crescent Avenue address. Between 1919 and 1920 it became the ten-unit Crescent Apartments. Margaret Mitchell and her husband rented ground-floor Apartment 1 from 1925 to 1932, and she wrote most of Gone With The Wind there, calling the place \"the dump.\" The building stood vacant after 1977 and suffered a major fire in September 1994 that destroyed much of the upper floors and roof. Mitchell's apartment survived with its floor plan nearly unchanged. Restoration was underway to return it to its 1925-1932 appearance and to open the building as a museum. Its significance rests on that literary association and its surviving interior.","period_of_significance":"1925-1932","architect_builder":"Possibly an Atlanta architect, \"Mr. Dunning\" (uncertain); built for Cornelius J. Sheehan, Jr.","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Damaged by a September 1994 fire, then stabilized; exterior and the Margaret Mitchell apartment were being restored for use as an interpretive center and house museum.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.986894-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/96000649.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000649/c8c71a0319-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000649/c8c71a0319-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Rolfmueller at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Mitchell_house_atlanta_2006.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolfmueller at English Wikipedia</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:Margaret_Mitchell_house_atlanta_2006.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208144","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mitchell_House_and_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6759733"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/crescent-apartments-96000649/"}