Candler Park Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Candler Park is a residential neighborhood east of downtown Atlanta that began as Edgewood, a community along the Georgia Railroad in the 1870s. It was incorporated in 1899 and annexed by Atlanta in 1909. Candler Park itself was developed in 1922. The grid-patterned streets hold Queen Anne and Folk Victorian houses in the west, Craftsman bungalows farther east, and brick bungalows and English-style cottages from the 1920s to 1940s. Landmarks include several churches, the 1926 Mary Lin School and clusters of 1920s corner stores. This amendment, following the 1983 listing, extends the period of significance to 1955 and enlarges the northern boundary near Benning Place and Freedom Parkway. It adds 70 contributing buildings and one contributing site, including modest American Small Houses, Goldsboro Park, and the 1949 Goldsboro Apartments and Benning Place Apartments. Some earlier buildings were reclassified because of heavy alteration, and 14 were newly counted as historic.