Margaret Mitchell House and Museum
Overview
The Margaret Mitchell House is the home where the Pulitzer prize-winning novel "Gone With the Wind" was written. It is owned and operated by the Atlanta History Center.Contact Information
130 West Paces Ferry RoadAtlanta, Georgia 30305
United States
Diamond level member
Description
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and operated by the Atlanta History Center, the Margaret Mitchell House is a turn-of-the century, three-story, Tudor Revival building where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote her Pulitzer-Prize winning book, Gone With the Wind. Built in 1899 by Cornelius J. Sheehan, the single-family home on fashionable Peachtree Street was converted into a ten-unit apartment building in 1919. Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, moved into Apartment No.1 in 1925, when the building was known as the Crescent Apartments. Mitchell