Luxury and High End Design in the Heart of Atlanta

Come enjoy this spacious, 2 story residence that sleeps 10 Features hard wood floors, larges rooms, and an open floor plan that all can enjoy. This beautiful home has 4 bedrooms and 3 full bathrooms. The huge kitchen, dining room, front porch and back porch are perfect for large groups and families. 0404

The star of this home is the large dining room and kitchen. The home features two side by side professional grade ovens, a wet bar, formal dining room for 8, bar seating for 6, and breakfast table that seats 4. The upstairs features 3 very large bathrooms with gigantic closets in each room. Master features a huge tub. Large front porch on front and back of house is great for hanging and out and enjoying the neighborhood.

Main Floor: The front door opens into an open concept living/kitchen/dining area which will be the main hang-out area during your stay. The living room has lots of seating and a 55 inch smart TV with Roku. The living room also features a large vinyl collection and a record player. The kitchen includes lots of cooking gear and a nice array of spices & oil. A coffee maker, filters, and coffee are provided. There are enough plates, glasses, bowls, and silverware to serve 16. The dining room has seating for 16, the kitchen dining room table has seating for 4, and the kitchen bar has seating for 2. The main level of the home has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

There are 4 bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms located in the home. 2 of the bedrooms feature queen beds and the master bedroom has a king bed with a private bathroom. There is also a bedroom with 2 twin beds. All but two of the bedrooms feature a smart TV.

Outdoor Space: Porches on the front and back of the house with lots of seating. We suggest enjoying a meal or beverage outside since the weather in Atlanta is pretty nice most of the year.

Parking: There is a driveway with 6 parking spots that you may use at all times. Additional cars will have no trouble finding free street parking.

Our home features a total of 3 HD Smart TVs with Roku signed into Netflix, HBOMax, and Disney+. Guests can also log into their own streaming services via the Roku interface.

Guest can access all areas of home except the basement and garage carriage house. Our insurance company does not allow us to let guests use the indoor or outdoor fireplace

We live down the street and can be contacted through the Airbnb app or our cell phone. Our property manager Michael has access to our Airbnb messages and is available for anything you may need before or during your stay.

With its beautiful linear park and parkways designed at the turn of the 20th century by Frederick Law Olmsted, the Druid Hills Historic District richly deserves its designation on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, it resides remarkably near the center of Atlanta’s sprawling metropolitan area.

Some find it hard to believe that this magnificent urban neighborhood was conceived and executed as one of Atlanta’s first suburbs. Yet it continues to evoke the past with its winding roads, eclectic architecture, and green canopy. The U.S. Department of the Interior once declared Druid Hills to be “significant as the finest example of late 19th and early 20th century comprehensive planning and development in the Atlanta area, and one of the finest period suburbs in the Southeast.

In the early 1890s, Atlanta entrepreneur Joel Hurt, who had imaginatively developed transportation, utilities, and real estate in the city, assembled a large tract of land for residential use. He hired Frederick Law Olmsted, America’s premier landscape architect, to plan his “ideal residential suburb.”

By the time Olmsted began to design Druid Hills in 1893, he had already completed many prominent projects including Central Park in New York City, the grounds of the United States Capitol, the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and the Stanford University campus. He also designed numerous park and parkway systems Boston, Chicago, and other cities.

Early in his career Olmsted planned (with his colleague Calvin Vaux) the community of Riverside, Illinois, as the prototype of a planned suburb. Druid Hills, designed near the end of his career, demonstrates the evolution of his ideas about the relation of suburbs to the city. In fact, Olmsted expressed his philosophy of suburban living in an 1890 letter to Joel Hurt; he envisioned the homeowner returning hot and tired from the city to homes “well shaded by handsome, umbrageous, permanently thrifty trees” in a neighborhood with a “pleasing rural, or, at least, semi-rural, character of scenery . . . to be permanently enjoyed.

Olmsted’s vision of suburban living was eventually realized in Druid Hills. However, after several visits to Atlanta to meet with Hurt, financial setbacks halted the project for several years. Before work resumed the aging Olmsted retired and Hurt hired the successor firm of Olmsted Brothers to develop the design proposed by the elder landscape architect.

Landscape and urban scholars have established that Druid Hills represents a major innovation in suburban design. Its central corridor, Ponce de Leon Avenue, with separated vehicular and pleasure drives, functions as the central promenade of the community. It is a linear version of the traditional village green. Each of Ponce de Leon’s median parks is distinct in its landscaping. The parks range from relatively open greenswards to nearly impenetrable woods.

In an early proposal for Druid Hills, Olmsted wrote of“roads of moderate grace and curves, avoiding any great disturbance of the natural topography.” The neighborhood’s streets follow the natural terrain and its open spaces remind us of the picturesque vistas integral to late 19th-century landscape planning.

Modern development in Druid Hills preserved the environment of parks, streetscapes, and landscapes in the spirit of Olmsted’s original concept. Scholars believe the area fulfills the three major components of his vision of 20th century suburban living:

– a park or public space as the central focus of the suburbs
– a parkway conceived as both a connector and pleasure drive
– residences on large acreages that face the parks and winding streets.

Many well-known Atlanta architects including Neel Reid, Philip Trammel Shutze, Ernest Ivey, and Lewis Crook, Jr., are represented in Druid Hills.

Through the years, Olmsted’s design for Druid Hills strongly influenced suburban planning throughout Atlanta. Architects who gained experience from working in our neighborhood later shaped Ansley Park, Morningside, Garden Hills, and Avondale Estates. Design elements were emulated in Brookwood Hills, and the West Paces Ferry area. More recently, office parks that emphasize green space and natural terrain have harked back to Olmsted. In fact, some scholars maintain that had it not been for Frederick Law Olmsted’s Druid Hills, Atlanta would not be the park-like city it is today.

The vigilance of the Druid Hills Civic Association has enabled Olmsted’s last major suburb to retain its original lot configurations and open spaces. The Druid Hills National Register Historic District, about 1,400 acres, was designated in two stages in 1975 and 1979. “In a national context, Druid Hills is a rare example of Olmsted’s design intentions intact in its principal features,” the U.S. Department of the Interior has attested.

There is parking for up 6 cars in our driveway and lots of street parking

***Guests can park anywhere in the driveway on the side of the house or in the back.

***This listing is for the main unit of the home. There is also a basement unit and carriage house with their own private entrance that can be rented. Please send us a message if you would like to book all three units. We can send you a link to the listing that includes all three distinct, private units.

******Accurate guest count is required by Airbnb and our insurance. Please make sure when you book the house you enter the correct number of guests including all those that will be staying overnight or visiting. For example, if you plan on 6 people staying overnight and 2 people visiting during the day, the guest count is 8 people. If you have questions about this policy, please send us a message before you book.

***Please note a $500 pre-authorization hold (not a charge) will be placed on the credit card used to book your reservation 24 hours before check-in. This hold will be released after your stay, provided there are no damages or additional charges. Once the pre-authorization is successfully processed, we will send check-in instructions to the phone number associated with your VRBO account.

***Please note a $500 pre-authorization hold (not a charge) will be placed on the credit card used to book your reservation 24 hours before check-in. This hold will be released after your stay, provided there are no damages or additional charges. Once the pre-authorization is successfully processed, we will send check-in instructions to the phone number associated with your VRBO account.
1. Please make sure the number of guests in your reservation is accurate. A guest is defined as any person who visits the property for at least 5 minutes. Additional visitors not included in the reservation must be approved in advance by host. Unapproved guests are subject to a $50 fee per person and/or immediate cancelation of remainder of reservation without refund.

2. Events, weddings, and parties are prohibited. If you are not sure your reservation qualifies as a party or event, please reach out to us and explain what you are trying to do and we can determine if its possible to host your event. Good communication is key.

3.SMOKING IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. $500 smoking fee. Burning incense is also strictly prohibited.

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