The first two pictures are of the Historic Randolph-Lucas House on Peachtree Rd. The house was built in 1924 for Hollins Nicholaus Randolph. The house is now surrounded by condo's and small businesses. Randolphy was a middle/upper class lawyer. This house sits on the outskirts of the Central Business district of Atlanta. The house helps represent how the automobile boom of the early 20th century empowered people to live outside of the city but still work inside of the CBD.
The next three pictures are of Piedmont Park Apartments that were built in 1913 by one of Atlanta's first woman architects, Leila Ross Wilburn. The apartments are located off of Piedmont Ave and 11th Street. Like the Randolph House, the apartments are located on the outskirts of downtown Atlanta. Immediately outside of the apartments is Piedmont Park. These apartments represent two important aspects of the early 20th Century. They demonstrate how the trolley and automobile helped contribute to suburbanization and represent a growth of urban parks.
I've seen these apartments (and the house), Kenny, but I did not not know about Wilburn; very interesting. They're great examples, too, of suburban apartment buildings: domestic in scale, yet still of the metropolis.
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