24-571: The Eastside Trail is a walking and biking trail stretching northwest to southeast on the Eastside of Atlanta , part of the BeltLine ring of trails and parks. It is lined with numerous notable industrial buildings adapted into restaurants, shops, apartments, condos, and two major food halls and mixed-use developments . The first two-mile (3.2 km) stretch opened in October 2012, from Piedmont Park to
48-545: A neighborhood newsletter, a garden club to rehabilitate public spaces, and a pre-school. To publicize the progress they were making, they began a Tour of Homes with a small festival, which has grown into the hugely popular Inman Park Festival, held each spring. During this same period, there was an intense fight against the I-485 freeway which was to be built through the neighborhood, although many properties in Inman Park, as well as
72-561: A strong sense of community have distinguished Inman Park. The neighborhood association has always welcomed renters and homeowners alike, with nominal annual dues, while the Inman Park Festival, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors every spring, brings residents together to produce the largest all-volunteer festival in Georgia. The Festival's centerpiece is the Tour of Homes, which showcases
96-579: The Krog Street Tunnel . It was extended from Krog Street to Kirkwood Avenue in November 2017. A second extension brought it to Memorial Drive in July 2019. Eastside, Atlanta Eastside refers to the city district comprising the easternmost portion of Atlanta , Georgia , United States . The Eastside generally encompasses the area bounded on the west by Midtown Atlanta and Downtown Atlanta and on
120-556: The Old Fourth Ward , Inman Park Village, and Kirkwood . Little Five Points is a commercial district located where Inman Park and Candler Park meet. Scottdale a census designated place on the east side of Atlanta Inman Park Inman Park is an intown neighborhood on the east side of Atlanta, Georgia , and its first planned suburb . It was named for Samuel M. Inman . Today's neighborhood of Inman Park includes areas that were originally designated The area
144-518: The 1990s displaced older, long-term residents as middle- and upper-income residents across the city, in few areas were these increases as dramatic as in the enclave of neighborhoods on the Eastside of Atlanta. Due to the close proximity to downtown, an ample stock of historic housing, and distinct commercial villages, property values on the Eastside skyrocketed. In Kirkwood, for example, median sales prices soared 275% from 1993 to 2003. The initialization of
168-716: The Atlanta Stage Works, a film and media production center that eventually housed the early Tyler Perry film studios and the National AIDS Quilt. In 2015 it was converted into a mixed-use office and restaurant space, to be added to the space across Krog Street to form the Krog Street Market . Inman Park is bordered by: Little Five Points district is located where Inman Park and Candler Park meet at Moreland Avenue and Euclid/McClendon. Inman Park contains Atlanta's best collection of residential architecture from
192-663: The BeltLine project in 2005 sent the area's revitalization into overdrive. During the 2000s, more than $ 775 million in private investment was pumped into the half-mile radius surrounding the Eastside Trail, including a $ 180 million transformation of a former Sears warehouse into Ponce City Market . With the dawn of the 21st century, many former industrial buildings bordering the trail were repurposed for residential and retail use. Examples are Ponce City Market , Krog Street Market , Telephone Factory Lofts and many others particularly in
216-470: The Eastside began to succumb to the effects of urban decay and white flight, with Virginia-Highland remaining a notable exception to the area's decline. While the area suffered during the 1970s and 1980s nadir of Atlanta's depopulation, much of its historic architecture remained intact. In 1990, when Atlanta's intown resurgence began in earnest, the Eastside served as the starting point for the city's gentrification wave . Indeed, while rising property values in
240-587: The Inman Park neighborhoods: the Inman Park historic district, and the Inman Park-Moreland Historic District , originally the separate suburb of Moreland Park. Notable houses include: Parks in Inman Park include Springvale Park, a pet project of Joel Hurt and designed by the Olmsted Brothers . Part of Freedom Park lies in the neighborhood, which the BeltLine trail also borders. There are also smaller parks: Delta Park, Inman Park,
264-414: The automobile allowed upper class Atlantans to live in suburbs farther north from downtown workplaces, such as Morningside and what is now considered Buckhead . Inman Park became less fashionable and the exuberant Victorian architecture came to seem dated. The mansions came to be subdivided into apartments. Similar to other intown neighborhoods such as Virginia Highland , Inman Park fell to blight during
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#1732848369989288-495: The city. We have three car lines and frequent schedules. Like new developments throughout the United States at the time, but in stark contrast to the attitudes prevalent in the neighborhood today, Inman Park was conceived of and promoted as a segregated community. Moreland Park was by contrast developed as a more traditional, incremental building of sub-divisions as opposed to the grand plan for Inman Park proper. The arrival of
312-474: The doomed home of Judge Durwood T. Pye on Poplar Circle, Robert Griggs was smitten by the extraordinary architecture of the Beath-Dickey House , then a dilapidated multi-unit rental property. He and his partner, Robert Aiken, bought the house and restored it to a single-family dwelling. They were followed by others who restored homes; founded Inman Park Restoration, the neighborhood association; and created
336-593: The east by the city limits. The central corridor of the district is the BeltLine Eastside Trail, which connects northern Eastside neighborhoods with those to the south. The Eastside is known for its nightlife establishments, craftsman architecture, local eateries, and quirky public art. The area that is now the Eastside was the site of the Battle of Atlanta , which was part of the Atlanta Campaign and sealed
360-468: The entire neighboring neighborhood of Copenhill , were torn down in preparation for freeway construction. After decades of restoration and renewal, Inman Park is now regarded as a highly desirable intown neighborhood with a mixture of rental and owner-occupied houses and condominiums. Built up as it was over decades, the neighborhood housing now ranges from tiny mill town shotguns to the Victorian mansions of
384-476: The fate of the Confederacy . Indeed, Lemuel P. Grant designed the city's fortifications to protect his plantation on what is now the Eastside neighborhood of Grant Park . General James B. McPherson placed his Yankee forces on high ground a mile east of Grant's plantation, in the neighborhood today known as East Atlanta. Beginning in the 1890s, streetcar suburbs were constructed on the Eastside as havens for
408-468: The gentlemen who conceived the thought of Inman Park found the locality above all others which they desired. It was to be a place of homes, of pretty homes, green lawns, and desirable inhabitants. And all save those who would make desirable residents have been excluded. ... It's the prettiest, highest, healthiest and most desirable locality I ever saw. Everybody is friendly and neighborly. ... And as far as accessibility it ranks second to no residence portion of
432-513: The late 19th and early 20th centuries. Styles include Queen Anne, high-style Italianate and Romanesque mansion as well as smaller bungalows, shotguns, and foursquares. Inman Park was Atlanta's first example of a garden suburb, with great attention paid to street layout, parks and other public space, and would inspire other Atlanta garden suburbs such as the Frederick Law Olmsted -designed Druid Hills . There are two historic districts within
456-463: The new suburb for his friend and business associate, Samuel M. Inman . Joseph Forsyth Johnson was hired as landscape designer for Inman Park who included curvilinear street designs and liberal usage of open spaces in his planning. The Atlanta Constitution in 1896 grandly described Inman Park: High up above the city, where the purest breezes and the brightest sunshine drove away the germs of disease, and where nature had lavished her best gifts,
480-407: The original development, intermixed with bungalows of all sizes built during the first three decades of the 20th century. Like its housing, the makeup of Inman Park has changed since its inception, with a population that is 25% non-white and of varying economic levels—although increasing housing prices are beginning to force more economic homogeneity. Since the beginning of its renewal, inclusivity and
504-468: The upper middle class. These neighborhoods, many of which contained their own villages encircled by shaded, architecturally distinct residential streets, include the Victorian Inman Park , Bohemian East Atlanta , and eclectic Old Fourth Ward . Some Eastside neighborhoods, including Kirkwood and Edgewood, were separate municipalities before annexation by Atlanta in 1909 and 1915. By mid-century,
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#1732848369989528-438: The white middle and upper class exodus to the northern suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s, and was: an economically depressed neighborhood of mostly blue-collar white folks, elderly couples who could not afford to move out and families on disability and welfare. They lived in rented bungalows or big houses chopped up into tiny roach-infested apartments. Driving through the neighborhood on his way to appraise stained glass windows in
552-478: The wide variety of sizes and types of residences in the neighborhood. Former industrial areas on the west side of the neighborhood have been redeveloped into mixed-use complexes . The former General Pipe and Foundry site is now North Highland Steel and the Mead paper plant site is now Inman Park Village . In the early 1990s the former Atlanta Stove Works was transformed by swapping out two letters of its name and became
576-417: Was part of the battlefield in the Battle of Atlanta in 1864. Inman Park (proper) was planned in the late 1880s by Joel Hurt , a civil engineer and real-estate developer who intended to create a rural oasis connected to the city by the first of Atlanta's electric streetcar lines , along Edgewood Avenue . The East Atlanta Land Company acquired and developed more than 130 acres east of the city and Hurt named
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