Built in 1931, the Winnwood Apartments is a brick Georgian Revival style apartment building located in Midtown. Built by Atlanta builder/contractor H.W. Nicholes and Sons, a prominent father/son firm that achieved a reputation for high quality work.
The historic rehabilitation project was completed in 2023. All exterior work was performed to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. As part of the project, over 250 historic windows were saved, repaired, and reused.
Ivy Hall, the home of Edward Peters, was designed by prominent Atlanta architect Gottfried Norrman. Constructed in 1883, the Peters House may be the first house in Georgia to fully embody the new Queen Anne style. The house occupies a full city block which contributes to the historic significance of the site. The setting dates from the 19th century and is possibly Atlanta’s oldest surviving landscape design; the original carriage house made this Atlanta’s most complete representation of 19th century domestic architecture.
Connecting the historic Grant Park and Ormewood Park neighborhoods, the massive concrete bridge dates to 1898-1899, likely to the original construction of the former Atlanta & West Point Rail Road (future site of the Beltline). Massive pilasters flank the arched openings.
The preservation of this architectural monument is both a testament to the area’s history, but also a visual example of saving this community's identity. This building has struggled with the challenges of disrepair and the complexity of "Black and White Flight," also the pressures of being a Black neighborhood that is now threatened with sustaining its culture. Today, the four stone walls made of granite from Stone Mountain symbolize the resiliency of the Beloved Community — and a group of leaders who are working to restore St. Mark into its traditional role — as a sustainable cultural center for the neighborhood.
The Building started its life as a book binding factory, designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown and his associate Alfredo Barili Jr. This would be the same team that would designed the US Post Office (now the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building) and the Fulton County Courthouse. A. Ten Eyck Brown would go on to be one of the most prolific architects in Atlanta in the 20th century, designing primarly public structures like the Sweet Auburn Curb Market and many other civic buildings.
