This beautiful mid century home in Collier Heights was the only sold home in the subdivision this month.
Mid Century home in Collier Heights
It’s a gorgeous 3 bedroom, 2 bath home at 2981 Collier Road. We can wait to see the inside.
The Collier Heights Historic District is a mid-20th-century residential suburb six miles west of downtown Atlanta consisting of 1,700 houses in 54 small interrelated subdivisions on approximately 1,000 acres of land developed between 1941 and 1979. To date, no other African-American suburbs approximating the size, scope, variety, and quality of Collier Heights built for and by African Americans have been identified. Starting in the mid-1950s, this up-and-coming large area was touted in the city’s leading African-American newspaper, the Atlanta Daily World, as the most prominent African-American residential area in Atlanta. A distinctive feature of many houses in Collier Heights, especially the larger ones, regardless of their architectural type, is a relatively large recreation room, usually on a lower level, sometimes partially underground. Recreation rooms provided opportunities for socializing with friends, neighbors, and associates in a secure environment during a time of racial segregation and discrimination and “Jim Crow” social conventions.
The Collier Heights neighborhood is significant in the area of social history, which is closely tied to its ethnic heritage but more directly influenced by the political dealings that were brokered during the 1950s and 1960s. Specifically, the development of the historic district shows how white and black Atlanta political and land-use planning interests were brought together to work out plans for much needed African-American residential development. The degree of cooperation and compromise required to reach consensus on this controversial issue was apparently unmatched in other major cities in the South and across the country. Also unprecedented was the degree to which African American interests were led by experienced local politicians and real estate brokers, were backed by local Atlanta African-American resources including financial institutions with money to lend for land acquisition and development and for home mortgages, and were driven by demands for new housing on the part of an unusually large African-American middle-class desperate for improved housing. These factors effectively counteracted the entrenched traditions of discrimination and segregation on the part of many white land-development representatives and essentially forced compromise and conciliation on housing issues.
Thinking of buying or selling a home in Collier Heights?
Call Kevin Polite, Solid Source Realty, Inc. 404-299-7100. Your Collier Heights Real Estate Expert
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