4-535: Ansley Park is an intown residential district in Atlanta, Georgia , located just east of Midtown and west of Piedmont Park . When developed in 1905-1908, it was the first Atlanta suburban neighborhood designed for automobiles, featuring wide, winding roads rather than the grid pattern typical of older streetcar suburbs . Streets were planned like parkways with extensive landscaping, while Winn Park and McClatchey Park are themselves long and narrow, extending deep into
8-480: The BeltLine ring of parks and trails around the central city. The area was developed by rail and real estate magnate Edwin P. Ansley , while George W. Adair, Jr. and Forrest Adair marketed the lots. It was marketed as an alternative for the city's elite to Inman Park , the most fashionable residential neighborhood in the city at the time. It was more fashionably located, astride Peachtree Street and adjacent to
12-607: The city's largest public park. With Edwin Ansley's former residence serving as the governor's mansion and the Piedmont Driving Club adjacent, the area remained upscale until the 1960s when a slight decline was experienced with some residences turning into boarding houses. However, residents turned this decline around and the area never experienced the deep decline in the 1950s-1960s due to suburbanization, as neighborhoods like Inman Park did. Contributing properties in
16-530: The neighborhood. Ansley Golf Club borders the district. The neighborhood was largely completed by 1930 and covers 275 acres (1.11 km). It has been designated a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places . In 2008, the median household income for the neighborhood was $ 226,335. To the immediate east of the golf course is the Eastside Trail interim hiking trail, part of
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