Brookhaven Historic District

Brookhaven is a suburban neighborhood in Atlanta, covering about 300 acres across Fulton and DeKalb Counties, that was planned around a golf course and country club beginning in 1910. Three subdivisions share curving streets laid over rolling land, with pines and shade trees, a lake, and a wooded ravine park. Houses built between 1910 and 1941 include Colonial and Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival, and Minimal Traditional designs, several by prominent Atlanta architects such as Hal Hentz and Neel Reid. The 1927 Norman Revival clubhouse, designed by Preston Stevens, belongs to the Capital City Club. The district was listed because it appears to be the first golf club community in Georgia and perhaps the Southeast, because its landscaping reflects early twentieth-century suburban planning, and because its architecture and club record the social and recreational life of Atlanta's prosperous residents. Postwar ranch houses make up only a small share of the buildings.