Margaret Mitchell House
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Crescent Apartments (Margaret Mitchell House)
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Margaret Mitchell House
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| Location | Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 33°46′51.6″N 84°23′4.26″W / 33.781000°N 84.3845167°WCoordinates: 33°46′51.6″N 84°23′4.26″W / 33.781000°N 84.3845167°W |
| Built | 1899 |
| Architect | Denning, Mr. |
| Architectural style | Tudor Revival |
| NRHP reference # | 96000649 |
| Added to NRHP | June 21, 1996 |
The Margaret Mitchell House is a historic house museum located in Atlanta, Georgia. The structure was the home of author Margaret Mitchell. It is located in Midtown, at 990 Peachtree Street. Constructed by Cornelius J. Sheehan as a single-family residence in a then-fashionable section of residential Peachtree Street, the building's original address was 806 Peachtree Street. The house was known as the Crescent Apartments when Mitchell and her husband lived in Apt. 1 on the ground floor from 1925 to 1932. While living there, Mitchell wrote the bulk of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gone with the Wind.
The house now contains a visitor center, and a portion of the museum is wholly devoted to the making of the 1939 film based on the book.
The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also designated as a historic building by the City of Atlanta.
The house was built as a single-family residence in 1899. Commercial development quickly overtook the neighborhood, however, and in 1907 the original family moved to Druid Hills. The house changed hands several times until the winter of 1913–14 when the house was moved onto a new basement story constructed on the rear of the lot. Given a Crescent Avenue address, the building was remodeled in 1919 and converted into a ten-unit apartment building, known as the Crescent Apartments, and "three brick stores" were built where the house had originally sat. Located in what was then Atlanta's largest business district outside of downtown, close to trolley lines, and walking distance from her parents' house, the Crescent Apartments was home to Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh when they married in July 1925. Unfortunately, the building's owner became over-extended, and it was sold at auction in 1926. The next owner, too, was driven to bankruptcy when the stock market crashed in 1929. Maintenance declined, contributing to Mitchell's characterization of their apartment as "the Dump." By the fall of 1931, there were only two occupied apartments in the building, one of which belonged to the Marshes, but they, too, moved to a larger apartment a few blocks away in the spring of 1932.
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