Ansley Park Historic District

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.