7-475: Atkins Park is an intown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia , nestled against the southeast corner of the neighborhood of Virginia-Highland , west of Briarcliff Avenue and north of Ponce de Leon Avenue ("Ponce"). It consists of just three streets—St. Louis Place, St. Charles Place, and St. Augustine Place—as well as an internal sidewalk known as Malcolm's Way (in honor of the local citizen most associated with it) that bisects them from St. Charles to St. Louis. It
14-519: Is most frequently used in metro Atlanta to designate an area containing parts of the City of Atlanta and bordering communities. The definition of "intown" varies significantly: According to "Intown Elite Real Estate Services" the strictest definition of "intown" includes only Downtown and Midtown Atlanta and the surrounding, mostly pre-World War II neighborhoods that contain unique destinations that draw customers from across metro Atlanta. Similar to
21-552: The National Register of Historic Places since 1982. Atkins Park has its own community association, called APNA . For purposes of formal civic participation in matters that go before the city's Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU-F, in this case), Atkins Park is part of the Virginia-Highland neighborhood and its association Virginia-Highland Civic Association (VHCA). APNA provides a member of its own choice to
28-592: The VHCA Board. North Highland Park , a small 0.41-acre park purchased by the VHCA in 2008 and formally opened in 2012, is located on the site of a former public library at the northeast corner of St. Charles Place and North Highland Avenue. Intown Atlanta Intown Atlanta (or as an adjective, " intown ") is a loosely-defined term used by the residents of Atlanta , Georgia , in the United States. It
35-670: The above definition, but including Buckhead. Sources using this definition include Intown Atlanta Guide & Maps, INtown Atlanta and Atlanta Intown Real Estate Services. Finally, Intown may refer to all of Atlanta and surrounding areas of Fulton , DeKalb , and Cobb counties inside I-285 ("the Perimeter"). This definition includes, for example, the airport , cities like East Point and Hapeville , unincorporated communities in DeKalb county like North Atlanta and North Druid Hills , and all of Southwest and Southeast Atlanta. It covers
42-592: The development of neighborhoods. Development of Atkins Park began in 1912 as a streetcar suburb of Atlanta, linked to downtown via the Nine-Mile Circle streetcar line. The original name was St. Louis Park; it was changed "to honor a family friend and mentor": Colonel John DeWitt Clinton Atkins , a representative of Tennessee in both the U.S. Congress and the Confederate Congress . A 27-acre (11 ha) section of Atkins Park has been listed on
49-587: Was originally designed to give quicker access to the streetcar stop at Ponce. The first use of the land after its formal platting was farmland. Between 1902 and 1905, Edwin Wiley Grove (a St. Louis businessman who later developed the famous Grove Park Inn and the Grove Arcade in Asheville, North Carolina ) purchased the land. Grove plowed profits from his pharmaceutical company into real estate for
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