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- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Windsor House Apartments
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1977
- Subject:
- Historic buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Houses--Georgia--Atlanta
Interiors--Georgia--Atlanta
Windows
Architectural elements--Georgia--Atlanta
Shades and shadows
Apartments--Georgia--Atlanta
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949--Homes and haunts
Lewis, Boyd, 1944---Homes and haunts
Margaret Mitchell House (Atlanta, Ga.)
Crescent Apartments (Atlanta, Ga.)
Windsor House Apartments (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta, Crescent Avenue, 33.783831, -84.3845
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Peachtree Street, 33.798452, -84.3910732
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Midtown, 33.7811275, -84.38636 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of the leaded glass window in the alcove where Margaret Mitchell had written a majority of the manuscript for Gone With the Wind in apartment number one of the Crescent Apartments at 979 Crescent Avenue in the Midtown area of Atlanta, Georgia. Photographer Boyd Lewis resided in the same apartment in the renamed Windsor House Apartments (now Margaret Mitchell House) in the late 1970s.
The building now known as the Margaret Mitchell House was constructed as a single-family residence in 1889. In 1919, it was converted into a ten-unit apartment building, known as Crescent Apartments. From 1925 to 1932, Margaret Mitchell and her husband John Marsh lived in apartment number one, where she wrote the majority of her novel Gone With The Wind. The building was later known as the Windsor House Apartments. The house was declared a city landmark in 1989, becoming the first building in the city to achieve this status. In 1994 and again in 1996, arsonists set fire to the house. It was subsequently restored and now operates as a museum. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.695.002
ahc101695002.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/2162
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:2162/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: MSS 602, Boyd Lewis Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights: