Brookwood Hills Historic District

Brookwood Hills is a planned suburb of about ninety acres in Atlanta, built in two phases between 1922 and 1933. It holds 255 houses, a recreation area with a pool, tennis courts, clubhouse and park, and two brick entranceways on Palisades Road and Brighton Road. Curving streets follow the gently sloping, wooded terrain and a former natural spring. Railroads, Peachtree Road and the Clear Creek woodland enclose the neighborhood, which limits through traffic and gives it a semi-rural feel inside the city. B.F. Burdette designed the landscaping, with oaks and crepe myrtles planted along the streets, and set aside the recreation land. The houses range from one-story bungalows and cottages to large Tudor and Colonial homes, built in clapboard, brick and stone. The larger houses sit mainly on Palisades Road and Wakefield Drive. The district was recognized for its community planning and landscape architecture, and later houses outside the original phases were excluded from its boundaries.