One of my favorite neighborhoods in Atlanta is Inman Park.
Rich with community pride and architectural gems, this was the first planned suburb of Atlanta.
In the 1880s, 130 acres east of the city was developed and connected to the metropolis
by the first electric street cars.
What technology initially gave, it eventually took away.
In the 1950s, the automobile made neighborhoods north of the city more desirable and fashionable.
Residents fled, the exuberant Victorian homes seemed dated,
and many mansions were subdivided into apartments.
Gentrification started in 1969 with the Beath-Dickey house,
a resident I unwittingly photographed (first photo).
Beath was an ice magnet who built the house to woo his fiancee from Boston.
She wasn't impressed, and never moved to Inman Park.
At least he tried.
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