- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Inman Park
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hurt, Joel, 1850-1926
Johnson, William Forsyth
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 - Date of Original:
- 1974
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Fulton County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Fulton County
Architecture, Domestic--Georgia--Fulton County
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color slides
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Atlanta's first streetcar suburb developed by Joel Hurt (1850-1926). From the National Register Of Historic Places nomination form prepared by Dr. Elizabeth A. Lyon, Emory University, Civic Design Commission and the Advisory Committee on Landmarks and Historic Areas in 1973: In 1887 the East Atlanta Land Company was chartered with Joel Hurt owning the controlling share of the stock. The company, with the help of Samuel Inman, the financier and cotton broker for whom the suburb was named, continued to buy land until its total holdings reached 138 1/2 acres. Improvements such as streets, a park, landscaping and tree planting were well underway by 1889 when ten lots were sold at public auction. Inman Park's landscape designer, James Forsyth Johnson, is not well-known. Hurt also consulted Frederick Law Olmsted on the early designs for Druid Hills during the time he was developing Inman Park, during a time when he was America's foremost landscape architect. Subsequently, more land was acquired and more lots subdivided, including some spaces which had appeared on the earliest map plats as open landscaped areas. Lots were sold with restrictions which set the minimum cost of each house at $3, 000.00, specified set-backs and restricted use to residential purposes. These restrictions were effective until January 1, 1910. During the year that the restraints lapsed, apartments, small, less expensive houses and small business began to populate the area. However, a recent, detailed study of the land transactions reveals that the speculative nature of many land purchases and the East Atlanta Land Company's apparent financial need for subdividing larger lots and open spaces contributed to the decline of the intended fine and exclusive residential neighborhood. By 1926 when Joel Hurt died, many of the old families had moved out, some lured to Hurt's second and large suburb nearby which had opened in 1908 called Druid Hills. The physical features of the suburb, including the majority of its homes and characteristic details such as granite block and other paving materials, remained. Joel Hurt, who developed Inman Park and lived there until his death, saw the development of Atlanta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was a man who recognized the potential of the technological innovations of his time, and was aware of the most advanced American work in building and landscape design. In 1969 Robert Griggs and his partner Robert Aiken purchased and restored the Beath-Dickey House, a Queen Anne-style house on Euclid Avenue, thus launching the Inman Park restoration movement. Variant names include: Inman Park. See ref# 73000621 (Inman Park) and 01000973 (Inman Park Historic District Boundary Increase) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/national-register-listed-20240710.xlsx
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_341
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_341#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_341/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
-
