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Beautiful historic Atlanta mansion is yours FREE; If you'll pay to move it
Topic Started: Oct 5 2012, 04:48 PM (162 Views)
Tybee
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Which will cost you about $350k. The home was built for Thomas Jefferson's great great grandson.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/peachtree-mansion-offered-for-free-by-preservation/nSTqf/
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Isn't that the house of the book "Peachtree Road"?
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Tybee
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Yes, it is.
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How did the planning commission let something like that happen? In SF, I have a rental property I wanted to repaint and fix the front and the back deck (wood rot). I spent twice $$$$ on permits and fees due to the neighbors filing road block after road block for a fucking paint job.

How was that Condo built knowing the history of the house. That would never happen in SF. Never.
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It's Atlanta, where someone's idea of "progress" more often than not wins out. Truth be known, someone most likely paid someone else off handsomely. The house has already been moved once, 40' to the left so that the people living in the multimillion dollar condos behind it will have an unobstructed view.

In the scheme of things it's not all that historic a house. The fact that it was mentioned in a book and that it was built for Thomas Jefferson's GG-grandson really doesn't mean much in the end. But it's a beautiful building that has always just "been there" throughout my whole life, and I can handle it being moved, but I'd hate to see it destroyed as all the others have been. It is one of the few great mansions left on a street that was once lined from end to end with incredible estates. If it ends up being torn down the architectural salvage businesses in Atlanta will no doubt come in and buy up as much of the structure as possible, right down to the bricks, for re-sale. They say it will cost upwards of a million dollars to bring the house up to code if it's moved. That plus $350 thousand for the move, and the cost of the property to move it to (which in that part of town sells at a huge premium) most likely would put the total cost well over $2 million. I guess we can only hope there's someone who loves the house enough, and has that kind of money laying around, who'll be willing to save it. Otherwise it's probably a goner.

This is a picture of the Peachtree St. that was. The 3rd house up from the bottom of the image is the 1st governor's mansion in Atlanta at the corner of Peachtree and what is now Andrew Young International Blvd. (still Cain St. to me). The street was literally chock-a-block with huge mansions for miles in each direction. I would love to have grown up in the Atlanta in this picture.
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The ugly 73 story glass Westin hotel sits on the site of that once great house now.
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Edited by Tybee, Oct 6 2012, 06:02 AM.
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You'll still have Tuxedo Road

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