University Park-Emory Highlands-Emory Estates Historic District
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University Park-Emory Highlands-Emory Estates is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in the Druid Hills
CDP adjacent to Emory University
near Atlanta, Georgia.
The University Park tract broke ground in 1916 and consists of 65 houses along Emory and Ridgewood Drives.
Emory Highlands was laid out in 1923 and consists of 58 lots along Burlington Road and Ridgewood Drive between University and
North Decatur Road.
Emory Estates was laid out in 1925 and consists of 73 lots on Emory Circle and Durand Drive. Houses here date from 1925 through 1943.
-style bungalows and English Vernacular-style cottages are most common. There are also some larger, two-story Colonial Revival-style houses.
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in the Druid Hills
Druid Hills, Georgia
Druid Hills is a community which includes both a census-designated place in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, as well as a neighborhood of the city of Atlanta. The CDP's population was 14,568 at the 2010 census...
CDP adjacent to Emory University
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
near Atlanta, Georgia.
The University Park tract broke ground in 1916 and consists of 65 houses along Emory and Ridgewood Drives.
Emory Highlands was laid out in 1923 and consists of 58 lots along Burlington Road and Ridgewood Drive between University and
North Decatur Road.
Emory Estates was laid out in 1925 and consists of 73 lots on Emory Circle and Durand Drive. Houses here date from 1925 through 1943.
Architecture
Small, CraftsmanAmerican Craftsman
The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. As a comprehensive design and art...
-style bungalows and English Vernacular-style cottages are most common. There are also some larger, two-story Colonial Revival-style houses.