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The Margaret Mitchell House: www. Built by Cornelius J. Sheehan as a two-story, single-family home with a fashionable Peachtree Street address: The neighborhood was known as the "tight squeeze," referring to the turn-of-the-century when Peachtree looped around a foot ravine. The house was converted into a unit apartment building - Crescent Apartments.

During this time, families were selling their homes to make way for commercial development.

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The owner pushed the house back 40 feet toward Crescent Avenue, propped it up, added a ground floor, tore off the front porches, added porches to the back of the house and turned it into a three-story apartment building. The new address became 17 Crescent Avenue. In , the address changed to Crescent Avenue. Margaret Mitchell's apartment became an a literary salon for bohemian Atlanta and a central meeting place for aspiring writers and journalists.

The house was the first building in the city to achieve this status.