Ansley Park
100 Years of Gracious Living
$39.95

"Ansley Park is unusual among Atlanta neighborhoods. Its history reaches back to 1904 - ancient by Atlanta Standards. Unlike many areas of Atlanta where the 20th century marched past with little record keeping, many photographers and writers recorded their impressions of Ansley Park. That provides enough material for the beginnings of a book. In fact, this volume is the third book about Ansley Park published by the neighborhood. To celebrate Ansley Park's 100th year as Atlanta's premier address, the Ansley Park Civic Association is updating and expanding on the 1982 and 1993 books called "Historic Living in Ansley Park."

In 2003 and 2004 the photographers, writers and editors who produced this book combed the neighborhood for new material. They spoke with longtime residents and went into the living rooms of newcomers restoring some of Ansley Park's first houses. They rummaged through archives for photographs and articles, and dusted off the letters of residents who passed through long ago.

The result is a tribute to a remarkable neighborhood, deeply rooted in Atlanta's history and ideally situated to help bridge the past with the city's future."

From inside cover.

J. Neel Reid Architect
of Hentz, Reid & Adler
and the Georgia School
of Classicists

by William R. Mitchell, JR.

$50.00

"For Neel Reid and this book we must think back seventy years and more, to another time - of porte cocheres and sleeping porches, French doors and parterre gardens, trellises and pergolas, porticoes and fanlights, summerhouses and servants' quarters - a time of classic but not antebellum columns, before the Great Depression and World War II. We must recall the first decade of the twentieth century when three Atlantans, Hal Hentz, Neel Reid, and Rudolph Adler, studied architecture at Columbia University.

We recall and celebrate the achievements and the legacy of the artistic leader and legendary hero of the Georgia school of classicists, Joseph Neel Reid, known as Neel. His Southern genious for the classical tradition shines in this book. May it long survive in the handsomely proportioned pediments and elegant but fragile fanlights from his drawings and designs - beautiful and abiding manifestations of American civilization from the first quarter of this century, providing inspiration for new schools of classicists in centuries to come."

From inside cover, intro by William R. Mitchell, Jr.