Atlanta Midtown(cont.)
Atlanta's Botanical Gardens are located near the northwest corner of Piedmont Park. If you don't have a "green thumb," this award-winning garden will delight you... it is a visual feast filled with the most beautiful, unusual flora in the region. Visitors stoll through the Japanese, rose, perennial, vegetable, rock, herb and conifer gardens, or don walking shoes and trek through the trails in a 15-acre mature hardwood forest. An exciting look into endangered tropical and desert plants can be found in The Dorothy Chapman Fuqua Conservatory.
Within walking distance of Piedmont Park, is the Margaret Mitchell House. Steal a look into the life of Mitchell while strolling through her turn-of-the-century house and the apartment where she wrote one of the world's all-time greatest novels, "Gone With the Wind!"
From the sublime beauty of the Botanical
Gardens, to the illustrious historical significance of the Margaret
Mitchell house.... to the streets!
The typewriter Mitchell used to type each and every word of the classic still exists, as well as the Pulitzer Prize she received for writing it. Margaret Mitchell was a true citizen of Midtown... she was quite a revolutionary thinker, fighting for Civil Rights long before it was popular and living a very Bohemian lifestyle in the Midtown neighborhood.
She referred to her apartment building as, "the Dump" and reportedly believed it was one of the ugliest buildings in the City. Her occupation of the humble little brick apartment, however, has made it one of Atlanta's most notable landmarks and despite two devastating fires, it has been admirably restored and now operates as a non-profit museum.
Midtown is Atlanta's answer to SoHo, with a bustling walkaround neighborhood of bars and chic little restaurants. Most of the action takes place in the Crescent Avenue area where traditional favorites like Vickery's offer a friendly neighborhood "pub" atmosphere and sleek, sexy relative newcomers like the Leopard Lounge and South City Kitchen attract national attention from the press as the South's hottest hangouts for "the beautiful people."
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