Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-18
Moreland Avenue Tract of SO
Acres Will Be Subdivided
Into 140 City Lots Suburbs
Building Rapidly Toward At
lanta, Expecting Some Day
to Become Part of the City.

Announcement that the William
Bailey Lamar estate on the PAGES Fer
ry road would be sold has caused
great deal of speculation as to what it
will bring and who the purchasers Win
be. The estate consists of 1875 acres
and an $4,000 Italian yiila, one of the
finest in the county and the South. It
has been listed with a well-known
agency at a price said to D. $4,000.
Judge and Mrs Lamar put it on the
market because Of their removal from
Atlanta to Washington where Judge
Lamar will practice law before the
United States commerce court. The
Lamars are expected 70 visit Atlanta
next month.
The country home is one o: the most
complete in ghis section, ami represents
a considerable outlay for imported fur
nishings. Formal gardens and pictur-
esque ravines heighten the architec-
tural effect
Announcement was made today that the
Atlanta Development Company will sub
divide into lao city lots soon a 33-acre
range in price from $1,000 to So 1000 This
property cost the company S33, 900, or at
The rate of $1,000 an acre, and is typical
of prices that obtain on close-in acreage
Practically the last acreage tract of any
size in the city limits has been sub
divided, and the realty men are going far
out for desirable blocks. Indications point
to an unusually good year in acreage,
even better than last year.
Nearly 100 acres of the estate of L. NJ.
Dalrymple will be sold at administrator
sale before the court house door the first
Tuesday in March. This consists of three
tracts of All and 266 and 209 acres in
the vicinity of the intersection of the
Roswell and Dalyrmple, or Brannon Mill,
roads. J. A. Mabry is the administrator
and the terms will be cash
Anticipating that East Point, Hapeville,
College Park, Decatur and other suburbs
VIII some day be in the city limits, resi-
dents in these localities are making de-
termined effort to build toward Atlanta
rms movement is probably best empha-
sized Ill Decatur, which has been placed
IN the peculiar. position Of trying to be
a part OF the larger city and at the same
time preserving its priced autonomy. De-
catur IS distinctly an educational. home
loving community. A short time ago it
rather than on the outskirts of Druid
Hills, as IT is now. 1t was a place to go
to get away from smoke and dust in At
lanta, and Decatur still boasts that she
has no factories, and that she still has still
more schools. approximately 5000 Deca-
tur people work in Atlanta who live in
and they are obliged to toll in Atlanta
They expect to keep manufacturing plants
out of the town and they want closer
proximity to Atlanta.
The same can be said of most of the
other suburbs. Each is gradually grow
ing toward the commercial center Of Full
ton county. East Point is on boom
with a proposed white, way and real es-
Hapeville have dong been desirable places
TO live. Marietta still remains a separate
town in Cobb county, but many people
knocking on Atlanta's door.
Real estate men consider that there is
serious drawback to the development of
the Gambler properties on the west side
ticular time. This lies in the fact that
the section has not assumed a definite
enough character to warrant the launch
ing of any particular style of business en-
terprise Mr.. Gambler might start a de-
partment store on the old Capital City
club site that would be five years before
its time The same might be true of a
hotel or theater or other building, and
the enterprise might encounter losses in
the first stage of it's development. BY
building now a fatal mistake might be
made, whereas to wait year might clear
up the situation. The same problem is
today confronting property owners on
South Whitehall, and farther out on
Peachtree than Mr. Gamblers frontage.
People who own 2 good distance out
Peachtree are anticipating that depart
ment stores must eventually come across
the viaduct. ON the other hand, the de-
partment stores are clinging to rather
long leases and some have made recent
improvements. They don't expect the
change to be immediate. Most of the
land prophets, however, are watching for
the first department store to Jump into
good location and to force its COMPETE
tors to follow. Plans are already under
way for the erection of an up-to-date de-
partment store just off PeaChtree and not
far from Five Points. Details of ii have
not been given out. but realty men have
| heard of the proposed move and are wait
ing anXiously for the outcome.
A parcel that has changed hands more
than any other parcel on PeaChtree
changed hands again today. This was 3OS
HILL of the state court of appeals, and
later the nome of George w. Connors. of
Weyman e Connors, which was bought by
u. b. Carson, George Forester and Ed
ward e. Dougherty for a consideration of
| SIS, 600, or at, the rate of about $1,000 a
| front foot The lot is 60 feet in front
with an S-foot alley easement, go feet in
the rear and 12S and 161 feet on the side
lines. The two-story residence still stands
| on the property.
This piece of real estate started chang
| ing hands about three years ago. when Mr.
| Connors sold il for $14,500. Harvey Hill
and Arminius Wright bought the property
| April I, 1910. for $4,000, and Linton Hop
kins bought from them May 10, 1910, for
an advance of $500 and sold to Porter
Langston March s, 1911 for $50, 200
to enter an acreage deal on PAGES Ferry
road, Mr.. Langston sold to Or. Thomas