Asa G. Candler, Jr.
Asa Griggs "Buddy" Candler Jr. (August 27, 1880 – January 11, 1953, Atlanta) was the eccentric son of Asa Griggs Candler, co-founder of Coca-Cola. Candler Jr. helped build his father's business into an empire. He later became a real-estate developer, opening the Briarcliff Hotel at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and N. Highland Ave. in Virginia Highland.
Asa Jr. attended Emory College at its original campus in Oxford, Georgia and was a classmate of the future vice president Alben W. Barkley. After graduation he helped set up bottling plants for Coca-Cola across North America. He also supervised construction of various office buildings in Atlanta and of Candler Airport, now known as the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
In 1910, Candler moved from the fashionable Inman Park neighborhood where his father also had a mansion, to a "ramshackle" farmhouse on Briarcliff Farm, 42 acres (17 ha) on Williams Mill Road in what is now the Druid Hills neighborhood near Atlanta. Williams Mill Road was renamed Briarcliff Road in the 1920s after the estate that Candler built there. The farm was just north of Callanwolde, his brother Charles Howard Candler's estate. Candler Jr. managed a huge agricultural operation which provided meat and produce to local retailers. Cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens were raised on the farm. During World War I, Briarcliff Farm supplied milk to Fort Gordon.
The farm was lauded for its use of electric lights and fans, even individual drinking fountains for the cows, its cleanliness, and its air and light, resulting in sanitary conditions that led to higher yields and quality.
In 1916 he began plans to turn the farm into an estate with a mansion, Briarcliff. Briarcliff was built between 1920 and 1922, and featured a Georgian Revival exterior. Architect Dan Bodin assisted Frazier in overseeing the completion. In 1925 Candler had the mansion enlarged, including the 1,700 square feet (160 m2) music room, now DeOvies Hall, with its vaulted Tudor interior, limestone fireplace and painted walls.
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