Margaret Mitchell House - Atlanta

The Margaret Mitchell House, formerly the Crescent Apartments, is located on Crescent Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.  The house was originally built in 1899, at 806 Peachtree Street, as a single family home for Cornelius Sheehan.  In 1913 the home was moved from its original location to a spot further along the same lot where it was placed atop a newly created basement apartment, and given the Crescent Avenue addres it still carries.  In 1919, after further remodeling, the house opened as the Crescent Apartments.  In July 1925 the newly married Margaret Mitchell and her second husband, John Marsh, moved into apartment 1 on the ground floor of the Crescent.  She had been a reporter for the Atlanta Journal since 1922.  In 1926 she quit her job and began writing a society column for the Sunday Magazine.  It was during this time that she sustained an ankle injury, and house-bound for a period of time, took to writing what would become her most famous work, Gone With The Wind.  It was here she would produce the majority of her work on the novel, using the Remington Portable no. 3 typewriter that John purchased for her.  By 1932 the Crescent had fallen into disprepair, causing Margaret to call it "The Dump," and by the spring of that year the couple had moved to a larger apartment at Pershing Point.  Gone With The Wind was published in 1936 and earned Mitchell a Pulitzer Prize, eventually making its way to Hollywood in a lavish 1939 MGM epic.  The Crescent Apartments continued its decline and by the 1950's sat nearly vacant with only a smattering of tenants.  In 1964, after a refurbishing, the apartment was redubbed the Windsor House Apartments and functioned in that capacity until it finally shut down for good in 1977.  The deteriorating structure, ravaged by a pair of fires, sat unused until it was restored and opened as the Margaret Mitchell House in 1996.  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places that same year.      

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