49. AVONDALE ESTATES

(1,025 alt., 535 pop.), 8½ miles east of Atlanta on US 78, is a subdivision of trim parkways and well-kept houses, the prevailing type of which is the steep-gabled, brick and half-timber structure characteristic of Tudor Gothic architecture. Even the stores, all fronting together along one block, follow this style, with sharply sloping roof and second-story overhang. As the highway passes this commercial section it widens to include a broad central parkway, on the opposite side of which are the residences with their shrubbery and well-clipped lawns.

This suburb, for which the land was purchased by G.F. Willis in 1924) offers its residents many advantages of modern community life. Adult recreation is provided by a clubhouse with tennis courts, a golf course, a swimming pool, and an 8o-acre lake with rowboats, and the children of the community are accommodated by three large playgrounds distributed over the several hundred acres that make up Avon-dale Estates. A fireproof grade school is operated municipally, while the high school is part of the DeKalb County system. Although the houses are characterized by certain uniform structural and decorative details, they range in size from six-room bungalows to spacious two-story dwellings.

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