Berkeley Park Historic District

Berkeley Park is a small residential neighborhood in northwest Atlanta, laid out in 1921 on land that had been farmland. Its 149 contributing buildings are mostly one- to one-and-a-half-story houses on small, closely spaced lots with uniform setbacks, mature trees and some granite curbing. Craftsman details and the bungalow form dominate, alongside Folk Victorian, English cottage and minimal traditional houses. Two community landmarks anchor the district: Underwood Methodist Church, a granite building completed in 1920, and Atlanta Fire Department Station #23, a 1948 brick building in the International style. The neighborhood was platted by an independent developer rather than a streetcar company, though it lay close to a trolley line, and it attracted working-class families, many tied to the railroad and nearby industry. It is listed for its planning history and for its intact collection of early to mid-20th-century housing, with a period of significance of 1920 to 1952.