Flashback Photos: Remembering historic mansions along Peachtree Street

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Flashback Photos: Remembering historic mansions along Peachtree Street

PHOTOS: Atlanta's Peachtree Street is known for its skyscrapers but throughout the years, it's been home to some of the city's finest mansions, including the Randolph-Lucas house, which was recently moved to Ansley Park from Buckhead.

1890s -- Atlanta's Peachtree Street was once populated with a variety of mansions, including the Randolph-Lucas house, which has been moved to Ansley Park. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU

The three-story, 8,000-square-foot Randolph-Lucas-Jones house was gently moved to a new location in Ansley Park by crossing from Peachtree Street through the interior of the block, leaving the plantings in the front yard, including an 80-year-old magnolia and a Japanese maple, undisturbed. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

The house was once cut in half, lifted off of its Buckhead birthplace in the middle of the night and trucked 3.1 miles down the street.

Roger Smith walks the stairs at his historic home, which barely escaped the wrecking ball, before he and his partner Christopher Jones had it moved from Buckhead to Ansley Park. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

The house was constructed in 1924 by Hollins Nicholas Randolph, a prominent attorney and the great-great grandson of Thomas Jefferson. Copied from the Virginia mansion where Randolph grew up, it embodied the classic Georgian four-on-four design. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

The house stood at the west end of Lindbergh Drive, where it terminates into Peachtree Street. It was designed by Thornton Marye, whose firm also designed the Fox Theatre and the Atlanta Terminal Station. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Roger Smith poses for a portrait in his home, the historic Randolph-Lucas house. Like many successful Atlantans, Randolph built his house north of the city, and commuted to work, perhaps by a newfangled automobile. Residential houses from the 1920s once crowded Peachtree; almost all are gone. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Roger Smith is reflected in the mirror at his home, the historic Randolph-Lucas house, in Atlanta on Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

The Randolphs lived in the house only 10 years, then moved to Washington, D.C., in 1934 and the house was sold to Arthur and Margaret Lucas. Arthur and his company owned dozens of theaters around Georgia, including the Lucas Theatre in Savannah; he also either managed or owned the Fox Theatre. Margaret Lucas lived at the Peachtree Street address until her death in 1987. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Moving the house cost slightly less than $400,000 said Smith, 59, who owns part of a family timber business. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

May 1952 -- Exterior view of Margaret Mitchell's house at 1401 Peachtree Street. Following Mitchell's death in August 1949, and because of a request she made of her brother Stephens Mitchell, the house was razed the year this photo was taken. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU

Nov. 1970 -- The Wimbish Mansion has been home to the Atlanta Woman's Club since 1920. BILLY DOWNS / AJC FILE

April 1979 -- Original caption: "If you don't believe in reincarnation, check out Atlanta's Baltimore Block. Baltimore Block, the renovated row houses near West Peachtree Street and North Avenue, will become commercial units." MICHAEL CRAIN / AJC FILE

1941 -- Original caption: "Possibly the Samuel M. Inman house which was demolished in 1945, the last of the mansions in that stretch of Peachtree Street." LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU

Sept. 1964 -- The historic Marion Luther Brittain house on West Peachtree Street. CHARLES D. JACKSON / AJC FILE

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1890s -- Atlanta's Peachtree Street was once populated with a variety of mansions, including the Randolph-Lucas house, which has been moved to Ansley Park. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU

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