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08/25/2026

Capitol View Grammar school was completed in the summer of 1928 along Metropolitan Avenue. It was designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown and Alfredo Barili and had 21 classrooms, cafeteria, auditorium, gymnasium and library.

In the 1940s, an addition was built and in 2013 became home to the Latin Academy Charter School. In 2026, plans were announced that the building will become a youth learning lab.

08/24/2026

Baker Hills was developed around 1964 as a neighborhood for middle-class Black Atlantans. All the street names had a collegiate theme, with street names of Rutgers, Dartmouth, Kittrell, La Salle, Princeton, and Cornell.

This house at the corner of Cornell and Dartmouth was new in 1964 and could be yours for $17,000. It had 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, carport and Youngstown kitchen - a porcelain-enameled steel kitchen manufactured primarily by Mullins Manufacturing Corporation in Ohio. The units defined post-WWII American suburban kitchens before being phased out by American Standard.

08/21/2026

While Collier Heights is one big neighborhood, it’s really a collection of micro-neighborhoods, each with different names.

Built in the early 1960s, the 17 families of Valley Heart and Chalmers Drive considered themselves part of the Valhochas Community Club. This house at the corner of Chalmers was built in 1963 and home to the Mathews family.

08/18/2026

08/18/2026

The Federal Penitentiary opened in 1902 and by 1903 they had completed the Prairie-style warden’s home along McDonough Boulevard.

The newspapers touted its modern construction and fancy roof of corrugated tiles. Warden S.A. Hawk opened the prison and was excited to move in, but he was fired in July of 1903. His replacement, Warden Moyer, moved in with his family.

08/17/2026

335 Peters Street dates to at least 1885 and it was owned in those early days by John Deneen. Around 1906, it became Cochran Grocery and then the building was sold around 1910 to Alfred Lee Curtis.

When Curtis bought the building, it was being leased to a Black man named G.L. Carey. Carey operated a saloon, until the city shut him down. In the wake of the 1906 Race Massacre, Atlanta officials began to crack down on “Negro saloons” - and Carey lost his permit to operate.

Curtis then renovated the building and opened up the second location of Curtis Pharmacy.

Through the 1950s, 60s and 70s, it was a Fulton National Bank branch and in the 1980s, West Side Loan.

08/14/2026

✨NEW EPISODE✨

In April 1949, Metropolitan Opera singer John Garris came to Atlanta to perform at the Fox Theatre—but by the next morning, he was dead.

Police quickly focused on Garris’ relationships with men, raising questions about whether his sexuality shaped the investigation—or even played a role in his death.

Seventy-seven years later, who killed John Garris remains one of Atlanta’s unsolved mysteries.

Was it a lover? A random encounter? A hate crime? Or something else entirely?

08/12/2026

Today, the legendary Tami Roche' turns 80 years old! If you listened to Episode 305 about her story you’ll know that she has had quite the life and this year it’s continued as she heads to BurlyCon Burlesque Education & Social Convention to be the Legend of Honor!

Right now she’s spending her birthday in the hospital and in the same day lost her cat of 14 years 😭

If you want to send some birthday love, her GoFundMe link is still active 💕

https://www.gofundme.com/f/gofundme-tami-roche

08/11/2026

The De Soto Apartments on 7th near Juniper were built in 1911 by architect Frederick Frerichs. The three story, six unit building rented a three-bedroom for $68. The first residents are a Who’s Who list of Atlanta’s most prominent citizens; William Huntt, one of the founders of Ansley Park golf course, architect Haralson Bleckley, Joseph Hirsch, one of the main founders of Grady Hospital and doctor Edgar Crawford.

In 1991, the Atlanta Preservation Center moved its offices from the downtown Flatiron Building into a 2,000 SF unit at the DeSoto. Their rent was $1,000/month.

08/10/2026

This house on Third Avenue in East Lake was built in the late 1920s and first home to the Folsoms. Mrs. Folsom was an active club woman, hosting the Buckeye Women’s Club meetings.

In the 1960s there was an informal survey done throughout the state to find existing cork oak trees and this property had the only identified trees in the city.