Peachtree Highlands-Peachtree Park Historic District

This neighborhood in Atlanta's Buckhead area contains about 380 contributing buildings, mostly modest single-family houses built between 1921 and 1958. Development began with Peachtree Highlands, platted by the McKenzie Trust Company and aimed at working families, then continued south as Peachtree Park under the developer Haas & Dodd. Streets curve with the rolling terrain, and granite stones line many of them. Lots are deep and narrow, with mature trees and informal landscaping. Common house types include bungalows, English cottages, side-gabled cottages, American Small Houses and ranch houses, with Craftsman, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival influences. Some houses came from pattern books, catalogs or prefabricated kits. The northern half mostly predates 1945 and the southern half mostly follows it. The district reflects Atlanta's rapid growth in the early twentieth century, when streetcar lines and automobiles pushed residential development northward, and it remains a quiet residential area beside busy roads, malls and offices.