This one-of-kind home features 3 distinctive and separate units that combined can sleep up to 16 guests. The main unit features an open concept kitchen, dining room and living room. The Basement Apartment has its own private entrance and a modern, farmhouse inspired kitchen. Finally, the carriage house has its own distinct sleeping, living, and bathroom, and private yard and garden. Our home is perfect for large families and small businesses who are looking for a lot of privacy/space.
The star of this home is definitely the large, open concept kitchen, dining, and living space on the main level which is perfect for large families and groups who need a lot space. There is an even a wet bar with its own sink and beverage cooler in case you need the extra space for preparing drinks and food. The kitchen features two side-by-side professional grade ovens with 8 industrial burners. The formal dining room seats 8, the kitchen island bar has seating for up to 6, and the breakfast nook table seats 4. The upstairs includes all 4 bedrooms and three 3 very large bathrooms. The Master bathroom is what dreams are made of and features an oversized shower and soaking sub and enough mirrors and and sinks for an entire bridal party. If you need to get some work done the office provides plenty of privacy and lots of desk space and inspiration for your next big idea. The home also features a large front and back porch with outdoor fans and lots of seating options. It if gets chili at night, we have a custom built outdoor fireplace to keep you warm and provide another cool and unique space to gather with your friends and family in this one of a kind space in the heart of Atlanta.
This listing also includes a surprisingly spacious 2/1 basement apartment and 1/1 carriage house if your group needs lots of beds and bedrooms but also wants just the right amount of space.
Guests will have access to all three units on the property. The main unit is a 4/3, the basement apartment is a 2/1, and the carriage house is 1/1 with a very stocked kitchenette. Guest will have access to the front and back porch and the private garden/yard that can be reached from the carriage house/tiny house. The outdoor fire pit is located between the back porch and the carriage house/tiny house.
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
***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 8 people staying overnight and 4 people visiting during the day, the guest count is 12 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.
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.
4. Late Checkouts must be pre-approved by hosts. Unapproved late checkouts subject to $350 fee.
5. Please remove makeup before getting in the beds.
6. No matter what the package says, flushable wipes or anything besides toilet paper and human waste should never be flushed down toilets.
7. Guest must provide a copy of their Driver's License or Passport to host after booking so we can confirm your identity and finalize your reservation.
8. Our cleaning team charge a $350 biohazard fee if they have to clean up any bodily fluids (blood, urine, feces)
9. Glitter and confetti are strictly prohibited. Our cleaning team charges an additional $100 if they have to clean glitter or confetti.
10. We provide a gas grill, but guests are responsible for providing their own propane and cleaning the grill after each use. If the propane tank is empty, you can exchange the tank at local gas stations for between $20 and $25.
