The above Images are pictures of the oldest surviving building built by an African American in Atlanta. This home in Reynoldstown was a storefront on the first floor and a residence on the second. While Reynoldston and neighboring Cabbagetown were mostly residential, making this type of set-up atypical, most residents worked at the Cotton Mill down the street. 
I like this building, and didn't know it before...but how do we use it to help make sense of our readings on early suburbs? Ought we think of Reynoldstown as suburban?
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