Candler Park Historic District

Candler Park Historic District covers roughly 450 acres of in-town Atlanta, built around a city park begun in 1922. The area began as Edgewood, a community that grew along the Georgia Railroad in the 1870s, was incorporated in 1899 and was annexed by Atlanta in 1909. Streetcar lines and later the automobile encouraged growth, and from about 1910 realty companies subdivided land into small lots. The district holds more than one thousand residences, mostly detached, middle-class single-family homes laid out on a gridiron of streets. Late-Victorian cottages and larger houses stand in the west, early transitional bungalows in the center, and brick bungalows from the 1920s and 1930s in the east. Churches, a 1926 school, apartment buildings and corner stores are also present. Informal front yards, street trees, curbs, retaining walls and hexagonal-paver sidewalks add to the setting. The district was listed for its community planning, transportation, architecture and landscape architecture.