Grant Park Historic District

Grant Park Historic District covers about 430 acres of rolling terrain in southeast Atlanta, centered on a 131-acre city park. Most of its roughly 1,100 structures are houses from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including two-story Queen Anne frame dwellings, one-story Victorian cottages, Craftsman bungalows and larger Neo-Classical mansions facing the park. Brick-paved sidewalks, old street trees and stone retaining walls add to the setting. Schools such as Roosevelt High School, churches and small commercial clusters also serve the neighborhood. The district is tied to Colonel Lemuel P. Grant, a railroad builder who designed Atlanta's Civil War fortifications and gave land for the park in 1883. The park holds the remains of Fort Walker and the Cyclorama painting of the Battle of Atlanta, and the Olmsted brothers prepared design changes there in the early 1900s. Few intrusions disturb the historic character.