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979 Crescent Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30309-3964
Phone: 404-249-7015 |
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The docent-led tour is a 60 to 90-minute experience with exclusive photographs and archival exhibits that tell the story of Margaret Mitchell beyond Gone With the Wind. The tour starts in our Visitors Center with "Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell, 1907-1918." The tour continues into the house, through her apartment where she wrote Gone With the Wind, and finally to the Gone With the Wind Movie Museum. The museum illuminates the making of the movie through original objects, correspondence, and artifacts such as the legendary doorway to Tara. Your experience at our historic site ends with an opportunity to enjoy the Museum Shop, complete with unique gifts, souvenirs, and Gone With the Wind collectibles and memorabilia. The Visitors Center, located adjacent to the house on the corner of Peachtree Street and Peachtree Place, is the main entrance and the beginning of the tour. The 4,000 square foot facility houses admissions, a small theater, and a visual arts exhibit gallery. After the second fire in May 1996, Daimler-Benz offered a challenge grant to renovate the Visitors Center and provide a facility to temporarily house exhibits for visitors during the Olympic Games and before the completion of the house. With additional support from the business and hospitality community, the Visitors Center opened temporarily in July 1996.
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Built in 1899 by Cornelius J. Sheehan, the two-story, single-family home on fashionable Peachtree Street was converted in 1919 into a 10-unit apartment building. It was here, from 1925 until 1932, that Margaret Mitchell lived in Apartment #1 and wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gone With the Wind. When Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, moved into the house in 1925, the building was known as the Crescent Apartments. Apartment #1 is the only interior space of the restored house that is preserved as an apartment. Architectural features include the famous leaded glass window out of which Mitchell looked while writing the book, and tile in the foyer of her apartment. All furnishings are of the period.
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